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Standard model - as shown below SSBN-616 "USS Lafayette" (or any other Lafayette Class SSBN-617 to SSBN-636) Standard model - as shown - bases vary Scale 1:220 / 23.5" long

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SSBN-616 USS Lafayette was the lead ship of her class of 19 nuclear-powered, ballistic missile submarines. Commissioned in April 1963, USS Lafayette served 28 years and was de-commissioned 1991. All other Lafayette Class submarines are also decommissioned.

When built, the primary armament of the class was 16 Poseidon nuclear missiles in vertical launch tubes. The submarines were additionally armed with four 21” torpedo tubes (all placed forward) that fired conventional anti-ship and anti-submarine torpedoes, or nuclear torpedoes.

In 1974 the SSBN Extended Refit Program saw the class fitted with Polaris missile capability. However, a year earlier Lockheed had started the Trident missile program and - by 1979 - the first Ohio Class submarines capable of launching 24 Trident I missiles came on line; hence rendering the Lafayette Class obsolete.