On the 24th, the United States sent a warning message to North Korea and China publicly revealing the position of a strategic nuclear-powered submarine loaded with 154 Tomahawk missiles. That day, the United States Indo-Pacific Command announced on its website that the Ohio-class USS Michigan (SSGN-727) stopped for a while near Okinawa, Japan on the 10th, along with a submarine (pictured) that surfaced to the surface.
Intae command explained that it was “part of the 7th Fleet area of operations deployment” and that it was “to supplement submarine warfare capabilities in the region.” The 7th Fleet is the Navy’s primary fleet under US Intaesa, operating in the Western Pacific, including South Korea and Japan. It is unusual to announce that a nuclear submarine requiring cover is in a specific location within a large operational area. The Ohio-class nuclear submarine is the largest submarine in the world at 170.6 m long, 12.8 m wide and 19,000 tons displacement. There are currently 18 vessels in active service.
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