Navy: Ohio Class Nuclear Submarine Replacement Program Has ‘No Room’ for More Delay

摘要

Congressional appropriators should act quickly to fund the Ohio Class replacement submarine, as recapitalizationrnfor the SSBNs is in the midst of a 20-year delay, Rear Adm. Joe Tofalo, the Navy’s director of Undersea Warfare,rnsaid in remarks delivered in Washington at a Sept. 18 Minot Air Force Base Task Force 21 nuclear deterrencernconference. “We have delayed recapitalization of the SSBN force for as long as possible,” he said. “There isrnabsolutely no room for more.”