Major Shaitan Singh
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John Warner (SSN 785) conducts sea trials in the Atlantic in May 2015. Huntington Ingalls Industries handed over the boat to the US Navy on 19 June 2015. Source: HII
Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII's) Newport News Shipbuilding division has handed over the US Navy's (USN's) 12th Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), officials announced on 25 June.
John Warner(SSN 785) - named after the US senator and former secretary of the navy - was delivered at HII's Newport News, Virginia shipyard. It is the sixth Virginia SSN to be completed by Newport News, which is building the boats in partnership with General Dynamics Electric Boat, under a teaming agreement.
The USN is acquiring a 30-boat class of Virginia SSNs. Eleven boats are in commission.
John Warneris the second of eight Block III Virginias that feature a redesigned bow (with a new Large Aperture Bow array) and two 87-inch Virginia payload tubes that each launch six Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles.
