The Navy has put together a tightly-wound schedule for developing that successor that requires design work to commence in the fiscal year beginning this October, with a seven-year construction phase for the lead ship starting in 2019.

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The year the oldest Ohio-class ballistic-missile sub completes its final nuclear patrol is now expected to be 2027, which sounds a long way off until you realize it takes nearly two decades to design, develop, build and test the lead ship in a successor class.

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The journey was further delayed for four hours when the towline from the lead tugboat to the ship snapped, and another tug pushing the ship broke a bit.

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Their failure may yet lead to rats deserting a sinking ship.

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If Russians could get a rocket ship into space, and lead on nuclear weaponry, what else could their scientists pull off?

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Please judge us in 2 years, give us time to move the big ship, and I am sure Philips will lead in many NPS categories in the near future.

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