Key Points and Summary - The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is the US Navy’s most unusual—and most expensive—attack submarine. -A heavily modified Seawolf-class boat, it carries a 100-foot Multi-Mission ...

The U.S. Navy's fleet of submarines might be large, but it only has three Seawolf-class attack submarines: The USS Seawolf (SSN 21), the USS Connecticut (SSN 22), and the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23).

The end of the Cold War resulted in a premature end for the promising and heavily armed Seawolf-class of submarines, capable boats that arguably would have been continued if Pentagon decision-makers ...