Heavily Damaged Submarine USS Connecticut Now Won’t Return to Service Until 2027
29th September 2026
The U.S. Navy’s schedule for getting USS Connecticut, one of its prized Seawolf class nuclear attack submarines, back into service has slipped into next summer. The boat suffered severe damage, especially to its bow, in a collision with an underwater seamount in the South China Sea in 2021. The service had previously hoped that repairs would be finished before the end of this year, and planning is also now underway for the submarine’s retirement in 2031. This would mean it could serve for just four years before being pulled from service once and for all.
The only thing that saves us is that other governments are even more stupid than our government.
The exact reasons for the delays are unclear.
What’s clear is that our ship maintenance facilities are highly incompetent. Maybe we ought to outsource that to the Chinese; they don’t seem to have these problems.