USS Key West (SSN-722)
USS Key West (SSN-722) entering Pearl Harbor | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Key West |
| Namesake | City of Key West, Florida |
| Builder | NGNN |
| Laid down | 6 July 1983 |
| Launched | 20 July 1985 |
| Commissioned | 12 September 1987 |
| Decommissioned | 22 July 2024 |
| Out of service | 21 September 2023 |
| Homeport | Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton |
| Status | In Commission, in Reserve (Stand Down), commencement of inactivation availability |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
| Displacement | 5,799 tons light, 6,206 tons full, 407 tons dead |
| Length | 110.3 m (361.9 ft) |
| Beam | 10 m (32.8 ft) |
| Draft | 9.4 m (30.8 ft) |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed |
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| Test depth | In excess of 800 ft (243.8 m) |
| Complement | 16 officers, 127 enlisted |
| Sensors & processing systems | BQQ-10 ARCI passive sonar, BQS-15 high frequency active 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) midships torpedo tubes, 12 x bow vertical launch tubes (for BGM-109 Tomahawks), up to 25 horizontal reloads (combination of Mk48 ADCAP torpedo or Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km)), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines |
USS Key West (SSN-722), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after Key West, Florida.