USS Arkansas (SSN-800) is a Virginia-class nuclear powered attack submarine of the United States Navy. She is the twenty-seventh boat of the class and the fifth vessel to be named for the U.S. state of Arkansas. She was ordered on 28 April 2014, and named during a ceremony on 15 June 2016 by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.[3] Arkansas's was keel laid on 19 November 2022 at Newport News Shipbuilding.[2]
Service History
Construction
On 27 September 2023, Huntington Ingalls Industries, which oversees Newport News Shipbuilding, announced that the pressure hull of Arkansas had been completed.[4] On 7 December 2024, the submarine was christened by Carlotta Walls LaNier, a member of the Little Rock Nine, at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding Division in Newport News, Virginia.[5]
In popular culture
A fictionalized version of Arkansas was featured in the 2018 film Hunter Killer, which was based on the novel Firing Point by George Wallace and Don Keith.
References
- ^ "Naval Vessel Register".
- ^ a b c "HII Authenticates Keel Of Virginia-class Attack Submarine Arkansas (SSN 800)" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls Industries. 19 November 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "New Navy sub will be named USS Arkansas". 15 June 2016.
- ^ "HII Marks Arkansas (SSN 800) Construction Milestone at Newport News Shipbuilding". HII. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- ^ Staff, Naval News (2024-12-09). "HII Christens 27th Virginia-class Attack Submarine - Arkansas (SSN 800)". Naval News. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
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