USS Key West (SSN-722)

USS Key West (SSN-722) entering Pearl Harbor
History
United States
Name	Key West
Namesake	City of Key West, Florida
Builder	NGNN
Laid down	6 July 1983
Launched	20 July 1985
Commissioned	12 September 1987
Decommissioned	21 September 2023
Out of service	21 September 2023
Homeport	Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton[1]
Status	In Commission, in Reserve (Stand Down), commencement of inactivation availability
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General characteristics
Class and type	Los Angeles-class submarine
Displacement	5,799 tons light, 6,206 tons full, 407 tons dead
Length	110.3 m (361.9 ft)
Beam	10 m (32.8 ft)
Draft	9.4 m (30.8 ft)
Propulsion	1 × S6G PWR nuclear reactor with D2W core (165 MW), HEU 93.5%[2][3] 2 × steam turbines (33,500) shp 1 × shaft 1 × secondary propulsion motor 325 hp (242 kW)
Speed	Surfaced:20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) Submerged: In excess of 25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h) (official)
Test depth	In excess of 800 ft (243.8 m)
Complement	16 officers, 127 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	BQQ-10 ARCI passive sonar, BQS-15 high frequency active sonar, WLR-8 fire control radar receiver, WLR-9 acoustic receiver for detection of active search sonar and acoustic homing torpedoes, BRD-7 radio direction finder
Armament	4 × 21 in (533 mm) midships torpedo tubes, 12 x bow vertical launch tubes (for BGM-109 Tomahawks), up to 25 horizontal reloads (combination of Mk48 ADCAP torpedo or Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km)), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines

USS Key West (SSN-722), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after Key West, Florida.