The nature of kingship in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth follows the events that occur during Macbeth’s unlawful rise to the throne......The themes of greed, arrogance and excessive political ambition are still, very relevant to the world today. Shakespeare got it right - his story of Macbeth still applies to today's world....
Russian CCB-175 The Viktor Leonov, a nearly 300-foot spy ship, was spotted off the Georgia coast on Wednesday, 20 miles south of the U.S. nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay….These ships are large, purpose built ships designed for signals intelligence gathering via an extensive array of sensors. The data could be transmitted to shore via satellite link antennas housed in two large radomes. The ships are armed with two AK-630 close-in weapon systems and SA-N-8 SAM launchers, for last resort self-defense.
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's home port for U.S. Navy Fleet ballistic missile nuclear submarines armed with Trident missile nuclear weapons.
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is a principle submarine base of the US Navy. Located near to St. Marys in Camden County, Georgia, the base is the home port of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet's Trident nuclear-powered submarines.
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is the home port to ballistic missile submarines and guided missile submarines of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet. The submarines assigned to the base are:
USS Florida (SSGN-728)….Armament: 154 × BGM-109 Tomahawk Missles W80 series thermonuclear weapon
USS Georgia (SSGN-729)…Armament: 154 × BGM-109 Tomahawk Missles W80 series thermonuclear weapon
USS Alaska (SSBN-732)…..Armament: 24 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles w/ thermonuclear MIRV
USS Tennessee (SSBN-734)…Armament: :24 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles w/ thermonuclear MIRV
USS West Virginia (SSBN-736)……Armament: :24 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles w/ thermonuclear MIRV
USS Maryland (SSBN-738)…Armament: :24 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles w/ thermonuclear MIRV
USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740)…..Armament: :24 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles w/ thermonuclear MIRV
USS Wyoming (SSBN-742)..Armament: :24 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles w/ thermonuclear MIRV
Naval Base Kitsap is a U.S. Navy base located on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state. It was created in 2004 by merging the former Naval Station Bremerton with Naval Submarine Base Bangor. The Mission of Naval Base Kitsap is to serve as the home base for the Navy’s fleet throughout West Puget Sound and to provide base operating services, including support for both surface ships and Fleet Ballistic Missile and other nuclear submarines having their home ports at Bremerton and Bangor….Naval Base Kitsap is the third-largest Navy base in the U.S. It features one of the U.S. Navy's four nuclear shipyards, one of two strategic nuclear weapons facilities, the only West Coast dry dock capable of handling a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and the Navy's largest fuel depot."
The US Navy has a total of 18 Ohio-class submarines which consist of 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), and four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). The SSBN submarines are also known as "Trident" submarines, and provide the sea-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad.
In 2015, informations emerged that Russia may be developing a new up to 100 megatons nuclear torpedo, the Status-6 Ocean Multipurpose System, codenamed “Kanyon” by Pentagon officials. This weapon is designed to create a tsunami wave up to 500m tall that will radioactively contaminate a wide area on an enemy coasts with cobalt-60, and to be immune to anti-missile defense systems such as laser weapons and railguns that might disable an ICBM. Two potential carrier submarines, the Project 09852 Belgorod, and the Project 09851 Khabarovsk, are new boats laid down in 2012 and 2014 respectively.
According to the Federation of American Scientists, an organization that assesses nuclear weapon stockpiles, as of 2016, Russia possesses 7,300 total nuclear warheads, of which 1,790 are strategically operational.
China a fleet of about 85 submarines….The US Navy has a fleet of 70 submarines: 14 SSBNs, 4 SSGNs, and 52 attack submarines.
In 33 minutes or less, that's how long it would take for an enemy ballistic missile launched from the other side of the world to hit the United States…..Fired from a submarine it would take less than 12 minutes.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.