Play War Thunder for FREE! Register using and get a premium tank or aircraft or ship and thee days of premium account time. According to the CEO of American defense corporation General Dynamics, Phebe Novakovic, the construction of the lead vessel of Columbia class submarine is expected to begin in late 2020.
Speaking at the Baird Global Industrial Conference in Chicago on November 6, Novakovic said that the company has finished design work on the new nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines class.
She added that the construction plans are 53 to 55 % complete.
Novakovic was quoted as saying by the Washington Business Journal,
“The exact timing of a lot of this, and that first boat, which will be on a cost-plus [contract] basis, will depend on the contract that is yet to be negotiated,”
“And our growth around that, we’ll have some nice incremental growth in 2021 and 2022, a little bit offset by our decline in engineering as we move from the engineering phase on Columbia into the construction phase.”
The Columbia-class is being built by General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut and U.S. shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industrie's Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia as part of a joint venture.
Huntington Ingalls Industries held the first steel-cutting ceremony at its Newport News Shipbuilding division on May 23 to mark the beginning of the advance construction of the first-of-class boat.
In this video, Defense Updates analyzes why the Columbia Class submarine will be the next superweapon of the U.S military?
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