北极星导弹核潜艇将于80年退役。海军建议改建10艘北极星核潜艇中的8艘,使它们能携带“战斧”潜射巡航导弹。戈登·汉弗莱参议员很赞同这项建议,他说,这有利于迅速提高美国正在下降的战略地位,而且改建成本很低。每艘北极星核潜艇配备16个发射筒,每个发射筒装7枚潜射巡航导弹,同时,鱼雷管里还能装13枚,这样,一艘潜艇共携带125 Polaris missile nuclear submarine will be retired in 80 years. The Navy proposed to retrofit eight of the 10 Polaris nuclear submarines to enable them to carry Tomahawk submarine-launched cruise missiles. Senator Gordon Humphrey strongly endorsed the proposal, saying that it would help to rapidly raise the declining strategic position of the United States and that the cost of conversion was low. Each Polaris nuclear submarine equipped with 16 launchers, each launcher with 7 submarine-launched cruise missiles, while the torpedo tube can hold 13, so that a submarine carrying a total of 125