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USS ''John Warner'' (SSN-785) is a
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of the
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. She is the first in the
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to be named after a person; the first 11 ''Virginia''-class subs were named after states. ''John Warner'' was originally to be built by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in
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, but the contract was later transferred to Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding. She is the second of the Block III subs, which have a revised bow and some technology from
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s. The vessel supports 40 weapons, special operations forces, unmanned undersea vehicles, and the Advanced
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Delivery System ( ASDS). The name was announced on 8 January 2009, five days after John Warner, a
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, retired after serving 30 years as a
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, making ''John Warner'' the 13th U.S. Navy vessel to be named for a living person in the last hundred years. Construction began on 29 April 2009 with the keel laying ceremony being held on 16 March 2013. Because of the modular construction sequence, the submarine was reportedly already about 59% complete before the official keel laying. The submarine was christened on 6 September 2014. ''John Warner'' was commissioned on 1 August 2015 with Commander Dan Caldwell in command. On 14 April 2018, while on her first deployment, USS ''John Warner'' took part in targeted strikes against Syrian military facilities. She fired six
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cruise missiles, in what was believed to be the first combat use of her class of submarines.


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