USS Asheville (SSN-758)

	USS Asheville (SSN-758)
History
United States
Name	USS Asheville (SSN-758)
Namesake	Asheville, North Carolina
Awarded	26 November 1984
Builder	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Laid down	9 January 1987
Launched	24 February 1990
Christened	28 October 1989
Commissioned	28 September 1991
Homeport	Naval Base Guam
Motto	From The Mountains, To The Seas
Nickname(s)	The Ghost of the Coast
Status	in active service
Badge
General characteristics
Class and type	Los Angeles-class submarine
Displacement	6000 tons light, 6927 tons full, 927 tons dead
Length	362 ft (110 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion	1 × S6G PWR nuclear reactor with D2W core (165 MW), HEU 93.5%; 2 × steam turbines (33,500) shp; 1 × shaft; 1 × secondary propulsion motor 325 hp (242 kW);
Speed	Surfaced:20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) Submerged: +20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) (official)
Complement	20 officers, 110 enlisted
Sensors and ; processing systems	BQQ-5 passive sonar, BQS-15 detecting and ranging sonar, WLR-8 fire control radar receiver, WLR-9 acoustic receiver for detection of active search sonar and acoustic homing torpedoes, BRD-7 radio direction finder
Electronic warfare ; & decoys	WLR-10 countermeasures set
Armament	4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow tubes, 10 Mk48 ADCAP torpedo reloads, Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km), Harpoon anti–surface ship missile range 70 nautical miles (130 km), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines

USS Asheville (SSN-758), is a Los Angeles-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine. She is the fourth vessel of the United States Navy to be named for Asheville, North Carolina. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 26 November 1984 and her keel was laid down on 9 January 1987. She was launched on 24 February 1990, sponsored by Mrs. Dorothy Helms, and commissioned on 28 September 1991.

Asheville was fitted with a developmental Advanced Mine Detection System (AMDS) high-frequency active sonar array with transmitters and receivers in the sail and in a disc-shaped chin sonar dome beneath the hull at the bow. The system is used for target detection, mine avoidance, and bottom navigation. After a highly successful testing period the system was removed during overhaul in 2003.^[5]

^ "Image: 070425-N-6357K-001.jpg". navy.mil. Archived from the original on 14 September 2007. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
^ "International Panel on Fissile Materials". fissilematerials.org. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
^ "Validation of the Use of Low Enriched Uranium as a Replacement for Highly Enriched Uranium in US Submarine Reactors" (PDF). dspace.mit.edu. June 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b Polmar, Norman "The U. S. Navy Electronic Warfare (Part 1)" United States Naval Institute Proceedings October 1979 p. 137
^ LTJG Leonard Moreavek & T.J. Brudner. "USS Asheville Leads the Way in High Frequency Sonar". Archived from the original on 2 October 2012.

[1] "Image: 070425-N-6357K-001.jpg". navy.mil. Archived from the original on 14 September 2007. Retrieved 26 December 2018.

[2] "International Panel on Fissile Materials". fissilematerials.org. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2022.

[3] "Validation of the Use of Low Enriched Uranium as a Replacement for Highly Enriched Uranium in US Submarine Reactors" (PDF). dspace.mit.edu. June 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2022.

[proceedings-4] Polmar, Norman "The U. S. Navy Electronic Warfare (Part 1)" United States Naval Institute Proceedings October 1979 p. 137

[5] LTJG Leonard Moreavek & T.J. Brudner. "USS Asheville Leads the Way in High Frequency Sonar". Archived from the original on 2 October 2012.

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History
USS Asheville (SSN-758)
United States
Name	USS Asheville (SSN-758)
Namesake	Asheville, North Carolina
Awarded	26 November 1984
Builder	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Laid down	9 January 1987
Launched	24 February 1990
Christened	28 October 1989
Commissioned	28 September 1991
Homeport	Naval Base Guam
Motto	From The Mountains, To The Seas
Nickname(s)	The Ghost of the Coast^[1]
Status	in active service
Badge
General characteristics
Class and type	Los Angeles-class submarine
Displacement	6000 tons light, 6927 tons full, 927 tons dead
Length	362 ft (110 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion	1 × S6G PWR nuclear reactor with D2W core (165 MW), HEU 93.5%^[2]^[3] 2 × steam turbines (33,500) shp 1 × shaft 1 × secondary propulsion motor 325 hp (242 kW)
Speed	Surfaced:20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) Submerged: +20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) (official)
Complement	20 officers, 110 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	BQQ-5 passive sonar, BQS-15 detecting and ranging sonar, WLR-8 fire control radar receiver, WLR-9 acoustic receiver for detection of active search sonar and acoustic homing torpedoes, BRD-7 radio direction finder^[4]
Electronic warfare & decoys	WLR-10 countermeasures set^[4]
Armament	4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow tubes, 10 Mk48 ADCAP torpedo reloads, Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km), Harpoon anti–surface ship missile range 70 nautical miles (130 km), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines