![]() USS Pittsburgh at a dockside ceremony in 1985. | |
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Name | USS Pittsburgh |
Namesake | The City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Awarded | 16 April 1979 |
Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
Laid down | 15 April 1983 |
Launched | 8 December 1984 |
Commissioned | 23 November 1985 |
Decommissioned | 15 April 2020 |
Out of service | 6 August 2019 |
Homeport | Groton, Connecticut |
Motto | Heart of Steel |
Status | Decommissioned |
Badge | ![]() |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Complement | 12 officers, 98 men |
Sensors and processing systems | BQQ-5 passive sonar, BQS-15 detecting and ranging sonar, WLR-8 fire control radar receiver, WLR-9 acoustic receiver for detection of active search sonar and acoustic homing torpedoes, BRD-7 radio direction finder |
Armament | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow tubes, 10 Mk48 ADCAP torpedo reloads, Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km), Harpoon anti–surface ship missile range 70 nautical miles (130 km), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines |
USS Pittsburgh (SSN-720) is a Los Angeles-class submarine and is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The contract to build Pittsburgh was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 16 April 1979, and her keel was laid down on 15 April 1983. She was launched on 8 December 1984 and commissioned on 23 November 1985.
On 2 April 1991 Pittsburgh and Louisville conducted submarine-launched Tomahawk missile attacks against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. [3]
Pittsburgh departed in October 2002 for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. There, she again fired Tomahawk missiles into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. [4] She returned on 27 April 2003.
On 25 February 2019, Pittsburgh returned to her homeport at Naval Submarine Base New London after completion of her final deployment. [5] The submarine then arrived at Bremerton, Washington on 28 May 2019, for a months-long inactivation and decommissioning process. [6]
Pittsburgh was officially deactivated on 17 January 2020 at the Undersea Warfare Museum in Keyport, Washington, and awaited the Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. She was later decommissioned on 15 April 2020 and the crew released, 37 years to the day of her keel was laid down.
Of interesting note, Pittsburgh's final Commanding Officer, was (at the time: Commander) Jason Deichler a native of Western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh suburbs, and brought the "Yinzer" spirit to the SSN-720, as he said, "I wear Pittsburgh on my sleeve." [7]
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)This article includes information collected from the public domain sources Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and Naval Vessel Register .