Triton-SSRN-586-Experimental
Experimental Radar Picket Submarine - USS Triton was the only nuclear-powered radar picket submarine and only Western submarine with two nuclear reactors. Largest US submarine until Ohio-class (1981). First vessel to complete submerged circumnavigation of Earth (Operation Sandblast, 1960). Mission made obsolete by carrier-based E-2 Hawkeye aircraft. Reclassified as attack submarine 1961.
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 5963 t
- Displacement (full)
- 7773 t
- Length
- 447.5 ft
- Beam
- 36.1 ft
- Crew
- 172 (16 officers, 156 enlisted)
- Ships built
- 1 (unique)
- Commissioned
- 1959
- Decommissioned
- 1969
Performance
- Top speed
- 30 kn
- Range
- Unlimited
Armament
- Main guns
- None
- Secondary guns
- None
- Torpedoes
- None
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- None
In-Game
- Tier
- T6
- Game power
- 164.67
- Research cost
- 130,419
- Credit cost
- 115,269
Notable
- Only Western submarine with two nuclear reactors
- Largest US submarine until Ohio-class
- First submerged circumnavigation of Earth
- Only nuclear radar picket submarine
- Most expensive submarine of its era