This will be the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. Two of them were never completed due to the end of the Civil War for the first and the end of World War II for another one. The only commissioned USS Illinois was an early battleship.
This submarine has some impressive states:
** 377 feet long, 34 -foot beam and 32 feet draft.
** It will be able to dive than feet below the surface.
** It will be armed with Tomahawk missiles and MK-48 heavyweight torpedoes carrying 650-pound high-explosive warheads.
** It will attain top speeds of more than 25 knots while submerged.
** The crew will be all-male and number 139.
The Land of Lincoln on the High Seas. --DaIllinoisCoot
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