A routine fleet review in March 2026 surfaced a number Navy planners are still struggling to absorb. Over the next several years, four aging Ohio-class guided-missile submarines and a dozen Ticonderoga-class cruisers will reach their mandatory retirement dates. When they go, the fleet sheds 2,080 Vertical Launch System cells in one wave. The figure marks the largest concentrated loss of naval strike capacity since the end of the Cold War.
Oh I thought they literally lost that many not that they were close to retirement
i thought that too… imagininh someone sneaking up and stealing a bunch of missiles
it’s too bad; it really peaked my interest and made me click. lol
I figure “go missing” meant sold to Nazi groups
I bet my ass they use them anyway
“Ohio class submarine” lol
i know it sounds like somebody wrapped a 2004 Pontiac Aztek in packing tape after filling it with kettle bells and dumped it into Lake Erie… but the Ohio class was once the largest & near silent premptive nuclear decapitation strike submarine and critical piece of “deterrence” in that they could be anywhere and allowed the US to dictate terms like an armed gunman to any rival.
“stealth” air force bombers and icbm silos can be watched from space, but those 18 subs were the compartmentalized, invisible fail safe to kill billions of humans around the world if the political and military leadership was ever under existential threat of major strategic loss/revolution/etc by a more advanced party.
The new Skibidi class subs will be unmanned and autonomous, thanks to being fully AI
Trackable only by the localized boiling regions in the ocean
