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Skate-class submarine
The ''Skate''-class submarines were the United States Navy's first production run of nuclear-powered submarines. They were an evolution of the ''Tang'' class in everything (especially their propulsion plants), which were based on the operational prototype . The four ''Skate'' class boats re-introduced stern torpedo tubes. Although among the smallest nuclear-powered attack submarines ever built, the ''Skate'' class served for many years, with the last being decommissioned in 1989. USS ''Skate'' was the first submarine to surface at the North Pole, on 17 March 1959.
''Skate'' and ''Sargo'' were built with the S3W reactor, ''Swordfish'' and ''Seadragon'' also had the S3W reactor in the S4W reactor plant (same machinery in an alternate arrangement).
==Design==
The ''Skate''-class were designed as economical production nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs), and thus were smaller and more austere than their ground-breaking predecessor , whose high cost had raised concerns. They were designed before ''Nautilus'' demonstrated the advantages of sustained high underwater speed, thus their designed speed was about the maximum speed of the conventional ''Tang'' class, which the ''Skate''s resembled in almost every aspect except propulsion. Their S3W reactor was a scaled-down version of ''Nautilus S2W reactor with about half the power output; it was known as SFR (Submarine Fleet Reactor) during development. A slightly modified version known as S4W powered the second pair of ''Skate'' class boats. Unfortunately, scaling down the reactor did not reduce the weight of reactor shielding proportionally, and it was eventually realized that further downsizing was impractical. In the late 1950s it was hoped that the nuclear-powered aircraft program would develop reactors suitable for very small SSNs, but the program was unsuccessful. Their armament was the same as the ''Tang''s, six bow and two stern 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. Like the ''Tang''s, the stern tubes had no ejection pump, and could only be used for swim-out weapons such as the Mark 37 ASW homing torpedo. The quest for a high submerged speed and improved sonar led to the subsequent ''Skipjack'' and ''Thresher'' classes becoming the model for further development.
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