They Make Excellent PSYOP Tools

Submariners are the first to make it clear, we do not talk about submarines. Well, that may be policy, but someone forgot to tell the US Navy. We have been observing excellent PSYOPs being utilized through the media when it comes to the SSGN, and as we have suggested before, this probably has some folks in the Middle East sleeping uneasy.

The Blue Crew departed Kings Bay April 26 for the first portion of Florida's first SSGN mission. Now the Gold Crew will be flying out to Diego Garcia to meet the boat and turn over with Blue Crew. This type of crew exchange is new to many submariners and Florida has gone the extra mile to make sure their crew members are prepared.

An Atlantic based SSGN doing a crew change in Diego Garcia pretty much tells everyone which theater the USS Florida (SSGN 728) is operating in, and that is absolutely intentional.

The only accurate way to describe the Ohio class guided-missile submarine is as a first strike weapon. While it can do so much more, in the context of a Middle East deployment the submarine is wasted as a submarine patrolling the coast of Africa. With slightly more than 100 UGM-109Es, able to all be launched in less than 4 minutes, the SSGN is intended to rain at least 100,000 lbs of heavens fury down on its intended targets from point blank range.

As we observe the public attention the SSGNs get, we can't help but think the SSGNs have become a favorite tool of Pentagon PSYOPs. As one of the most deadly conventional weapon systems in the world, and considering the difficulty in finding the platform at sea (we believe even with active sonar on full blast it would be very difficult for even the most sophisticated systems in the noisy waters off Iran), the SSGN represents the battleship and the ghost. Nobody wants to chase a ghost, but nobody can ignore the battleship.

What a brilliant concept, the Navy should build a dozen more.