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The Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan allocates $63 billion to 10 Virginia-class submarines — including Block V boats carrying hypersonic strike weapons

The U.S. Navy is betting $63 billion over the next decade on 10 Virginia-class attack submarines, several of which will carry a new hull section engineered to launch hypersonic missiles and dozens of ...
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Virginia Payload Module

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: Submarines are among the most potent assets in a nation’s arsenal, capable of lurking in the ocean’s depths to strike enemy targets... Leadership within the ...
USNI

Senate Appropriators Add ‘Emergency’ $1B to Complete FY24 Attack Sub Buy, Bill Funds $37B Shipbuilding Budget

A Senate Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bill includes $1 billion to complete the purchase of two Virginia-class attack submarines that were appropriated in FY 2024, according to the legislation.
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BAE Systems awarded $70 million contract for future Virginia Payload Module missile tubes

LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems (LON: BA) received a $70 million contract award from General Dynamics Electric Boat for the production of Virginia Payload Module (VPM) ...