The US Navy’s Virginia Class nuclear attack submarine, Missouri (SSN-780) will be officially christened by General Dynamics Electric Boat on 5 December 2009.

Missouri is the seventh Virginia Class submarine and the fifth ship in the US Navy named in honour of the US state of Missouri.

The 114.9m-long and 10.3m-wide attack submarine has a submerged displacement of 7,800t and can accommodate a crew complement of 113 officers and men and cruise at a speed of 25kt.

The submarine is scheduled to begin sea trials in 2010, and will be commissioned in 2011.

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General Dynamics Electric Boat, with its construction partner Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, will build a total of 18 Virginia Class ships for the US Navy.

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