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The Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan allocates $63 billion to 10 Virginia-class submarines — including Block V boats carrying hypersonic strike weapons

The U.S. Navy is betting $63 billion over the next decade on 10 Virginia-class attack submarines, several of which will carry a new hull section engineered to launch hypersonic missiles and dozens of ...
The National Interest

How to Make the U.S. Navy Great Again: More Block V Virginia-Class Submarines

Summary and Key Points: The Virginia-class Block V submarine represents a significant leap in the U.S. Navy’s naval capability. Equipped with the Virginia Payload Module (VPM), these submarines can ...
The National Interest

Virginia Payload Module

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: Submarines are among the most potent assets in a nation’s arsenal, capable of lurking in the ocean’s depths to strike enemy targets... Leadership within the ...
USNI

SECNAV: New Virginia Attack Boat Contracts Still Stalled Over Missile Insurance Issue; Lockheed, Northrop Clear Hypersonic Deal with Navy

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy and General Dynamics are still at an impasse over an insurance spat that has resulted in the 11-month delay to contracts for two Virginia-class attack submarines, Secretary ...
AFCEA

General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. Will Build Nine New Virginia-Class Subs

General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut, is awarded a $22,209,893,409 fixed-price-incentive, multi-year modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-17-C-2100 for ...