USS ''Scranton'' (SSN-756), a , is the second ship of the

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to be named for

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. The contract to build her was awarded to

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, on 26 November 1984, and construction began on 29 August 1986. She was launched on 3 July 1989 sponsored by Mrs. Sarah McDade, and commissioned on 26 January 1991, with Commander J.G. Meyer in command. ''Scranton'' was the first submarine at Newport News to be built via "modular construction". No keel was laid. In this method, the ship was almost fully built out in individual hull sections. Most of the internal structure, machinery, and piping were loaded in via open ends of the hull sections as each hull section was built out. The individual hull sections were later assembled with exact precision such that piping running between the sections was joined as the hull sections were welded together. The ship was later rolled into a floating drydock and "floated" In January 2006, ''Scranton'' successfully demonstrated homing and docking of an AN/BLQ-11 Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS)

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Operation Odyssey Dawn

On 19 March 2011, the submarine launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at

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n air defenses as part of

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.Burns, Robert,
First wave of allied assault: 112 cruise missiles
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