Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
On March 28th, 2026, the US Navy commissioned its newest nuclear attack submarine right where American naval power started — Boston Harbor, with the 228-year-old USS Constitution sailing past the brand-new USS Massachusetts in a handoff nobody alive has ever seen before. This episode breaks down exactly what the Massachusetts is and what she can do. 377 feet of matte-black steel, 7,800 tons submerged, powered by an S9G reactor core that will run for 33 years without ever needing to be refueled. Watch how her shrouded pump-jet propulsor makes her quieter than the ocean around her, why the Virginia-class ditched the traditional periscope for photonics masts that turned the control room into a flat-screen command center, and how 12 Tomahawk cruise missiles sitting in two Virginia Payload Tubes let her hit a building 1,000 miles inland from underwater. See why the Mark 48 ADCAP torpedo doesn't actually need to hit a ship to sink it, and follow the Massachusetts on the four missions Virginia-class submarines were built for: hunting Russian boats through the GIUK gap, parking off hostile coastlines and quietly filling hard drives with signals intelligence, delivering Navy SEALs to beaches the submarine never surfaces near, and launching cruise missile strikes against targets a country behind enemy lines never sees coming.
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On March 28th, 2026, the US Navy commissioned its newest nuclear attack submarine right where American naval power started — Boston Harbor, with the 228-year-old USS Constitution sailing past the brand-new USS Massachusetts in a handoff nobody alive has ever seen before. This episode breaks down exactly what the Massachusetts is and what she can do. 377 feet of matte-black steel, 7,800 tons submerged, powered by an S9G reactor core that will run for 33 years without ever needing to be refueled. Watch how her shrouded pump-jet propulsor makes her quieter than the ocean around her, why the Virginia-class ditched the traditional periscope for photonics masts that turned the control room into a flat-screen command center, and how 12 Tomahawk cruise missiles sitting in two Virginia Payload Tubes let her hit a building 1,000 miles inland from underwater. See why the Mark 48 ADCAP torpedo doesn't actually need to hit a ship to sink it, and follow the Massachusetts on the four missions Virginia-class submarines were built for: hunting Russian boats through the GIUK gap, parking off hostile coastlines and quietly filling hard drives with signals intelligence, delivering Navy SEALs to beaches the submarine never surfaces near, and launching cruise missile strikes against targets a country behind enemy lines never sees coming.
Credits:
docs.google.com/document/d/1-w5OwH2YzFXd6yC-bhAJ9td3hc4gaJXhw-_k3aYnwo8/preview
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