USS Idaho Commissioning Committee
The large scale miniature of USS Idaho SSN 799 was towed onto Chubbuck’s Cotant Park, on 12AUG2023.
Kawaii, February 2023:
U.S. NAVY DEPLOYS USS IDAHO TO…IDAHO?
Cold War Subs: USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571), STILL FIGHTING AFTER 67 YEARS! FIRST BORN IN LAND-LOCKED IDAHO?
Chubbuck Days, August 2023: 
INDIAN MOTORCYCLE
10 February 2023 (13:35-UTC-07 Tango 06) 21 Bahman 1401/19 Rajab 1444/20 Jia-Yin 4721/10 февраля 2023 года
Towards the end of January 2023, the U.S. Navy’s (USN) 26th nuclear powered Virginia-class attack submarine was ‘floated’ in landlocked Idaho!
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 28JAN2023.
That is, a scale model of the submarine SSN-799 USS Idaho was paraded through downtown McCall, during the yearly Winter Carnival.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 28JAN2023.
Most people don’t know that the birth place of the world’s first nuclear powered submarine was in landlocked Idaho (see more below under Cold War Boats: Nautilus).
Six of the future crew of USS Idaho attend an Idaho Steelheads hockey game, 25JAN2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.
The visit of the miniature of the latest USS Idaho (several USN boats have been named after The Gem State) was instigated by the USS Idaho Commissioning Committee, which sent six of SSN-799’s future crew to Idaho, to learn just what-the-heck the state of Idaho is all about. They also spent some time on Idaho National Guard’s Gowen Field (which is also home to USN/USMC Reserve units); visited the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery; toured the Idaho Veterans Garden in Caldwell; spoke at school assemblies; attended the USS IDAHO Night at the Boise State University, among many other public relations events.
U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Joshua Karsten, 25JAN2023.
SSN-799 is currently being completed by General Dynamics Electric Boat, in Connecticut, and is expected to be commissioned into the USN in the Autumn of 2024. Former Idaho governor Dirk Kempthorne revealed that the christening ceremony will use a bottle filled with water from Idaho lakes: “We went to the different lakes in Idaho gathering the water, which will all go into the champagne bottle, so that when Terry Stackley, our sponsor, christens the boat, the first water that will touch the bow of the USS Idaho will be the waters of Idaho.”
World War Three 2022: 
CHINA’S A-I-P ATTACK SUB REFRESHES TORPEDOES
World War Three 2021: 
IDAHO TRAINS KOREAN ANTI-NUCLEAR COMBAT TEAMS!
World War Three 2014: EASTERN IDAHO SHERIFFS TRAIN UNDER ‘I-RAPTER’ FOR COMING NUCLEAR DISASTER!
World War Three 2012: GERMANY SELLS MORE DOLPHIN SUBMARINES TO ISRAEL
IRAN BUILDS TWO MORE ATTACK SUBMARINES, WILL TARGET U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
World War Three 2011: RUSSIAN DELTA CLASS SUBMARINE FIRE BEING INVESTIGATED AS POSSIBLE SABOTAGE
Cold War Boats:
15OCT2021, USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jimmy Ivy the Third.
USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571), STILL FIGHTING AFTER 67 YEARS! FIRST BORN IN LAND-LOCKED IDAHO?
MOSKVA CLASS SUBMARINE HUNTERS, STOP CALLING THEM AIRCRAFT CARRIERS!
Cold War Oddities, Idaho:
HTRE-3
ANCIENT NUCLEAR POWERED JET ENGINE FOUND IN IDAHO DESERT, PROOF OF ANCIENT ALIEN VISITORS?
March 20, 2012, Germany’s Defense Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, announced that Germany will sell Israel at least one more Dolphin submarine.
The Dolphin submarine is made specially for Israel, and is a smaller version of the 209 class sub. It can carry SLCM (submarine launched cruise missiles) which can be armed with nuclear warheads. Oh, but I don’t hear any Western powers complaining about that!
Not only is Germany selling more of these submarines to Israel, but according to an unnamed source in the German government, they’re covering one third of the cost (about $178 million) and providing easy loans to Israel in order to pay for the rest!
Israel has three of the 2,800 mile range submarines, with two on order not counting this latest announcement.
“…if an ordinary submarine can sit in the Persian Gulf’s bed it would be the worst threat to the enemy. That is one of the U.S. concerns since Iranian submarines are noiseless and can easily evade detection as they are equipped with the sonar evading technology…When the submarine sits on the seabed it can easily target and hit an aircraft carrier traversing in the nearby region.”-Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri
February 9, 2012, Iran announced it has completed two more high tech attack mini submarines, designed to patrol the Persian Gulf. They claim the submarines are 100% built in Iran.
The Ghadir class mini submarines are small (some say they look like a submarine made by North Korea), and can fire Hoot supercavitating rocket powered torpedoes, which are far too fast for a ship to avoid. Those torpedoes could be based on the Soviet rocket torpedoes developed during the Cold War.
The latest subs will join at least three other subs that were completed in 2009. Here’s pics of them. Iran has not revealed how many of the mini subs they have, but USAToday estimates they have 12 mini subs (and three big Russian designed submarines).
“Experienced criminal investigators of the Main Military Investigation Committee flew in from Moscow to provide practical assistance to the investigation team on the site. Fifty witnesses have been questioned. Investigators are studying the documentation seized at the dockyard.”-Vladimir Markin, Investigation Committee
The Russian government said the fire aboard the Yekaterinburg Delta class submarine is no cause for concern regarding nuclear radiation. The reactors had been shut down, and the nuclear missiles removed before the sub went into dry dock in the Murmansk Region.
However, there is now an investigation, for possible sabotage because of the way the fire ignited the outer rubberized hull. Workers claimed a scaffolding caught fire, and that set the hull on fire. The fire was so damaging that officials are deciding if it’s worth it to repair the sub.
In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez said the United States is acting behind the scenes to destabilize Vladimir Putin: “The United States is trying to undermine his leadership, split Russia and destabilize its government and realize its imperialist project to create world hegemony.”
Chavez said this is how U.S. leaders operate because they do not support true democracy: “What is happening in Russia, they will try here, because these people know they cannot win the elections, either politically or mathematically.”
The Russian Emergency Ministry is reporting that a K-84 type nuclear powered submarine is on fire, after wooden scaffolding around the sub caught fire.
The Delta class sub is in a shipyard in the Murmansk region. Crews are currently trying to put out the fire. The Emergency Ministry says radiation levels are normal, the fire is external and so far is not affecting the reactor inside the sub.
Israeli media reporting that one of Israel’s Dolphin class submarines has been upgraded to provide better range.
Israel claims to have spent U.S.$27 million on the project.
The Dolphin class submarine is made in Germany and can carry cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads. German taxpayer money was actually used to help Israel buy the submarines!