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USS GRAYBACK

The US Navy's early attempt to introduce nuclear armed cruise missiles on submarines. This method required the submarine to surface, move the missile from the hanger, prep the missile, aim the missile and at last fire the missile. Not a lot of fun if you are only a few hundred miles from the enemy shores. A few of the test missile exploded on deck. Once the SSBN systems came around this project was scrapped. However GRAYBACK went on using her missile hanger to carry and deploy special foreces

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Beautiful model. As shown, Grayback was SSG-574 and the correct ships emblem is below.  The emblem you show is from when the ship was modified and lengthened and recommissioned to be an LPSS-574 and later SS-574.

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