US EditionNewport News Shipyard Launches Arkansas Submarine for Final Testing
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Daily PressNewport News shipyard launches Arkansas submarine for final testing
Newport News Shipbuilding marked a production milestone for the submarine Arkansas, the 27th Virginia-class attack submarine. Arkansas was launched into the James River, the shipyard, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, announced on July 2. The submarine was transferred from a construction facility to a floating dry dock, where it was launched and pulled by tugboats to a shipyard pier for “final outfitting, testing and crew certificatio…
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Although July 21 was the date chosen for the S-82 Narciso Monturiol submarine launch ceremony, Navantia has announced that, finally, "for agenda reasons, the ceremony is postponed until after the summer." According to the company itself, this ceremony is an event whose purpose is to sponsor the submarine and is therefore independent of the setting-a-float maneuver.
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