USS Jimmy Carter, SSN-23 at the Commissioning Ceremony by Tom Dougherty |
The Multi-Mission Module at the Quonset Point,
R.I. fabrication facility, as it is being moved to a barge for delivery
to Electric Boat’s facility in Groton, CT. Among other (classified)
features, the Multi-Mission Module has been publicly reported to have a
free flooding area, purportedly similar to an airplane bomb bay, and can
deploy remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) that can dive far deeper than
manned submarines. In the past, ROVs have been used by other Special
Operations submarines (USS Halibut, USS Parche) to photograph and recover
objects of interest from the ocean floor. For example, Halibut located
and covertly photographed the wreck of the lost Soviet Golf class SSB submarine
K-129. The Halibut cruised at 300-400 feet deep, and deployed an
ROV which photographed the wreck at 17,000 ft underwater.
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