Reply To: New World Shifting to the Indo-Pacific new nuclear powered submarines

[michael norton]

Lots of rather interesting stuff here. Trident silos in blocks of four, this is early lead stuff.

“The Ohio replacement design effort will borrow from developments in the Virginia- and Seawolf-class attack submarines. Innovations planned for the Ohio replacement include an new electric propulsion system nuclear reactor to reduce maintenance time and costs.

This is a Joint U.S./United Kingdom contract that combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (34 percent) and the government of the United Kingdom (66 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program.”

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16714609/navy-moves-forward-on-common-missile-compartment-for-future-us-and-uk-nuclear-submarine

It would seem that the U.S.A. and the U.K. will be constructing almost identical nuclear submarines.
That is something they have not made very public before AUKUS.