Attack Submarine - Virginia Class

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. Newport News Shipbuilding.
National Geographic Ultimate Structures : Super Sub


This is the under water juggernaut. Revealing the awesome technologies behind its strength.

HY-100 Steel
High pressure structural steel which is classified.

General Dynamics

Electric Boat Shipyards. Groton Connecticut

The USS Texas is the product in two shipyards. Electric Boat and Northrop Grumman shipyards.
The white ball should be the Bow Array Sonar.

She is one the American warships designed entirely on the computer.

Engineers watch the virtual crewmen through the engine room to perfect layout.

Simulate any collisions among the mechanism before the construction.
And send the buleprint to directly the machine to cut the metal.

Let's start the journey of building the submarine.

Build the submarine opposite way. From outside in.

Several modules that every submarine needed. The engine room, torpedo room, and nerve center control room.

Mathematic simulation in the under water explosion from the enemy mine or torpedo.

Unlike the land explosion, the torpedo or mine doesn't shatter its target with single blow.

In under water blast generate a series shock waves so powerful.



Bow Array















Load Torpedo~ Formidable and Lethal.







Supercavitation This torpedo actually out ran its own sound wave, even the super-sub sonar
may not hear the Barracuda Torpedo,until it strikes.  

Barracuda Torpedo. It travels faster than the speed of the sound.

U.S Navy Acoustic Research Detachment. Bayview Idaho.



The largest unmanned submarine in the world. Its job teaches engineers to make Texas even quieter. One-third scale model USS Texas .

Top secret propulsion system













The computer cut every piece of the sub and before the workers weld the sections together.

They preheated them to get them maximum strength.









Fuel Cells

Damage Simulation.



Virginia Ship Control Operator Trainer



USS San Francisco crashed into the mountain under the sea.
Clearly see the " Anechoic Tile ".







Mine is the most threat  for the submarine under sea.

Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.

It is designed to be shot from the torpedo tube.

Blue Fin.

Its mission is to save lives by identifying mines before they explode.







Deep Submerge Rescue Vehicle (DSRV).