Ohio-class submarine

Ohio-class submarine Length 170 meters Beam 13 meters Draft 10.8 meters Displace- ment 16,764 tonnes (surfaced) 18,750 tonnes (submerged) Targets Godzilla First appearance Latest appearance GODZILLA (1998) Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

The Ohio-class submarine is a class of nuclear-powered submarine currently operated by the United States Navy. The class is featured in the 1998 TriStar Pictures film GODZILLA and the 2001 Toho film Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.

History

• GODZILLA (1998)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

GODZILLA (1998)

After the military failed to trap Godzilla in Central Park and the creature escaped into the Hudson River, three nuclear submarines were deployed to destroy him with torpedoes. Once Godzilla dove into the river, a Los Angeles-class submarine, USS Anchorage, fired its torpedo, which Godzilla simply led back to the sub's hull, destroying it and leaving only the two Ohio-class submarines, USS Indiana and USS Utah, to oppose him. While Godzilla tried to flee by burrowing away, both submarines locked on and fired their torpedoes at him. Both torpedoes struck Godzilla, who roared as he sank to the riverbed, causing the military to declare him dead, an assumption that was later proven wrong.

Millennium era

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

The wreckage of an Ohio-class submarine in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

When an Ohio-class submarine disappeared off the coast of Guam, the Japanese Defense Force deployed two Satsuma submarines to find its wreckage. The Satsuma sub SS-03 eventually found the remains of the Ohio-class on the sea floor, with what appeared to be huge claw marks in its hull. Suddenly, something large moved past the submersibles, causing the seafloor to kick up and the Satsuma SS-02 to smash into a nearby rock and explode. As the water settled, the surviving Satsuma operator witnessed the huge glowing dorsal fins of a gigantic creature move behind several rocks. After almost 50 years, a new Godzilla had revealed himself.

Capabilities

Armaments

Ohio-class submarines are armed with four 21-inch (533mm) Mark 48 torpedo tubes and are capable of carrying 24 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Pressure resistance

Ohio-class submarines are able to operate at a test depth of 240 meters (800 feet).

Trivia

• At the time of GODZILLA's release, no submarine in operation with the U.S. Navy bore the name Utah or Indiana. Utah had previously only been used for USS Utah (BB-31), the second and final ship of the Florida-class of dreadnought battleships in 1909, while Indiana had been applied to three different battleships. Utah and Indiana were later given to the second and sixteenth submarines of the Virginia-class fast-attack submarines, respectively.
  • The USS Utah in GODZILLA has the hull number SSBN-745; in reality, the last Ohio-class submarine, USS Louisiana, received the hull number SSBN-743. The hull number of the USS Indiana is not shown.

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