Latest Nuclear Submarine About To Become USS Indiana

April 28 2017

USA

The U.S. Navy plans to christen its latest Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine on Saturday at the Huntington Ingalls shipyard in Newport News, Va., reports the Dept. of Defense.

Vice President Mike Pence, a former governor of Indiana, will deliver the principal address during the ceremony.

The Indiana (SSN-789) is the 16th sub in the class and the sixth in the Block III configuration, the Pentagon said in a release.

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