{"id":16760,"date":"2023-11-07T01:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16760"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:33:16","slug":"ohio-class-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ohio-class-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio-class Submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Ohio-class Submarine<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ohio class is a class of\u00a0nuclear-powered submarines currently\u00a0used by the United States Navy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are the\u00a0largest submarines ever\u00a0built\u00a0for the U.S. Navy.<\/li>\n<li>The US Navy has a\u00a0total of 18 Ohio-class submarines, which consist of\u00a014 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and\u00a0four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The SSBN submarines are also\u00a0known as &#8220;Trident&#8221; submarines and\u00a0provide the sea-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a014 SSBNs\u00a0together\u00a0carry\u00a0about\u00a0half\u00a0of\u00a0U.S. active strategic\u00a0thermonuclear warheads.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They were\u00a0designed specifically\u00a0for extended war-deterrence patrols.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>The class&#8217;s design allows the warship to\u00a0operate for about fifteen years between\u00a0major\u00a0overhauls.<\/li>\n<li>Each of these submarines is\u00a0provided with two complete crews, called the Blue crew and the Gold crew, with each crew\u00a0serving typically on 70- to 90-day deterrent patrols.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0can travel at speeds of 30+ knots and\u00a0remain submerged indefinitely.<\/li>\n<li>Each SSBN submarine\u00a0is armed with up to 24 Trident II submarine-launched\u00a0ballistic\u00a0missiles (SLBM).<\/li>\n<li>Each SSGN is capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, plus a complement of Harpoon missiles to be fired through their torpedo tubes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Nuclear Triad?<\/h3>\n<p>A nuclear triad is a military strategy where a country has nuclear weapons on three different platforms: land-based missiles, submarine-launched missiles, and bombers. This strategy is designed to make sure the country can deliver nuclear weapons in many ways, making its nuclear deterrent stronger and more resilient.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/us-submarine-in-middle-east-to-prevent-gaza-war-from-expanding-pentagon-4551966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>US Submarine In Middle East To Prevent Gaza War From Expanding: Pentagon<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ohio class is a class of nuclear-powered submarines currently used by the United States Navy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}