The Defense Acquisition Board has endorsed a plan for the SSBN(X) class of Ohio-replacement ballistic missile submarines that involves 12 hulls at $4.9 billion a piece, each with 16 87-inch missile tubes designed to carry the D5 missile, the Navy announced today. The existing Ohio class includes 14 hulls, each with 24 missile tubes of the same size. The announcement states that the decision was approved on Jan. 10, following a meeting of the board on Dec. 9 and the...
