U.S. Navy Submarine Crossword
Based on Navy Fact File and Naval History
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- 10. Category title for attack submarines, the three-letter hull symbol. (3)
- 15. One of the two builders listed for Virginia-class submarines, enter as one word. (12)
- 17. The submarine-launched land-attack cruise missile family name. (8)
- 18. Navy press release defines this as the commanding officer's senior enlisted advisor on a submarine, enter the acronym. (3)
- 19. The admiral described as "father of the nuclear Navy", last name. (8)
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- 1. Virginia-class SSNs 784 and beyond replaced 12 VLS tubes with two 87-inch Virginia Payload Tubes, enter the acronym. (3)
- 2. This Block V addition incorporates four extra payload tubes and adds 28 Tomahawks, enter the acronym. (3)
- 3. The next-generation attack submarine class identified as "SSN 774" in the Navy fact file. (8)
- 4. The SSN class the Navy calls the backbone of the force, identified as "SSN 688". (10)
- 5. The 12-tube system the Navy fact file says Los Angeles-class boats use for firing Tomahawk cruise missiles. (3)
- 6. The first of this SSN class (SSN 21) was commissioned July 19, 1997. (7)
- 7. The other Virginia-class builder listed as "HII- Newport News Shipbuilding", enter the location as one word. (11)
- 8. The 100-foot hull extension on USS Jimmy Carter is called the "multi-mission platform", enter the first word only, no hyphen. (12)
- 9. The Navy fact file lists USS Virginia (SSN 774) with this Connecticut homeport city. (6)
- 11. On Virginia-class SSNs, the Navy's traditional periscopes were supplanted by two of these masts. (9)
- 12. Mk 48 Advanced Capability torpedoes by this one-word variant name. (5)
- 13. NAVSEA name for the submarine safety program established after USS Thresher's loss. (7)
- 14. The Submarine Warfare insignia nickname earned by qualified submariners. (8)
- 16. Homeport listed for USS Seawolf, USS Connecticut, and USS Jimmy Carter, one word. (6)
- 20. The SSN lost on April 10, 1963, that NAVSEA links directly to creation of SUBSAFE. (8)