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Where previous submarines, includ- ing Nautilus and Seawolf, were built with long, slim lines, speed of the Albacore was expected to be so high that she could virtually through the water. to be the case. She And is this even fly has proven fitted with an airplane type control cockpit, with one Albacore (AGSS 569) This sub- marine designed to cut man "flying" the boat by means of air- plane "yoke" controls. The Albacore hull is wider and more cigar-shaped than other submarines. " that the graceless Submerged she Navy is so fast will not release the fig- through surface water, Albacore was ures.

Lee (SSBN 601), Abra- ham Lincoln (SSBN 602), Ethan Allen (SSBN 608), Sam Houston (SSBN 609), Thomas A. Edison (SSBN 610) and John Marshall (SSBN 611). But regardless of weapons development, offensive might is function of a submarine. not the only One of its war- t time missions would be to act as a scout, ranging far out ahead of the surface an fleets, invisible listening and radar post which could radio warning and other vital information about enemy ac- back to the surface ships and tivity air- submerged the craft carriers or convoys.

New April of 1959 delivering enemy traditional purpose underwater torpedoes shipping. Others of this type, with names like Halibut, Scorpion and Snook, have been commissioned illustrates the similarity in hull shape in 1960 and 1961, and new ones are being launched about one every at the rate of other month. is being undertaken by the Navy's Submarine Force. This revolutionary advanceis known as the Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine: a nuclear-powered submarine armed with the Polaris The development a story in a nuclear warhead and can be fired by of the Polaris mis- itself, but in principle (FBM) sub- marines from deep submergence.

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