USS Arkansas (SSN-800)

USS Arkansas is a nuclear powered attack submarine of the United States Navy. She is the twenty-seventh boat of the class and the fifth vessel to be named for the U.S. state of Arkansas. She was ordered on 28 April 2014, and named during a ceremony on 15 June 2016 by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. Arkansas's was keel laid on 19 November 2022 at Newport News Shipbuilding.

Service History

Construction

On 27 September 2023, Huntington Ingalls Industries, which oversees Newport News Shipbuilding, announced that the pressure hull of Arkansas had been completed. On 7 December 2024, the submarine was christened by Carlotta Walls LaNier, a member of the Little Rock Nine, at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding Division in Newport News, Virginia.

In popular culture

A fictionalized version of Arkansas was featured in the 2018 film Hunter Killer, which was based on the novel Firing Point by George Wallace and Don Keith.