<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5bb275ce19090707276e96d7-1200/4785427.jpg" border="0" alt="USS Indiana submarine" data-mce-source="US Navy"><p class="source"><span>US Navy</span></p><p class="caption">USS Indiana</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>The US Navy commissioned its newest&#xa0;<span>Virginia-class fast attack submarine over the weekend.</span></p><p><span>The nuclear-powered USS Indiana (SSN 789), the fourth Navy vessel named after the state of Indiana and the Navy's sixteenth Virginia-class submarine, entered service on September 29 at a commissioning ceremony in Port Canaveral, Florida.</span></p><p><span>"Indiana is a flexible, multi-mission platform designed to carry out the seven core competencies of the submarine force: anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-navy-seals-swim-out-of-a-submarine-2017-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delivery of Special Operations Forces (SOF)</a>, strike warfare, irregular warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,&#xa0;and mine warfare," the Navy <a href="https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=107256" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press statement. </span></p><p><span>Check it out below.&#xa0;</span></p>

Step aboard the newly commissioned USS Indiana, one of the US Navy's most lethal submarines ever built

The Indiana is the sixteenth commissioned Virginia-class fast attack submarine, and the sixth commissioned Virginia-class Block III submarine.

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US NavyUSS IndianaThe US Navy commissioned its newest&#xa0;Virginia-class fast attack submarine over the weekend.The nuclear-powered USS Indiana (SSN 789), the fourth Navy vessel named after the state of Indiana and the Navy's sixteenth Virginia-class submarine, entered service on September 29 at a commissioning ceremony in Port Canaveral, Florida."Indiana is a flexible, multi-mission platform designed to carry out the seven core competencies of the submarine force: anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, delivery of Special Operations Forces (SOF), strike warfare, irregular warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,&#xa0;and mine warfare," the Navy said in a press statement. Check it out below.&#xa0;

US NavyUSS IndianaThe US Navy commissioned its newest&#xa0;Virginia-class fast attack submarine over the weekend. The nuclear-powered USS Indiana (SSN 789), the fourth Navy vessel named after the state of Indiana and the Navy's sixteenth Virginia-class submarine, entered service on September 29 at a commissioning ceremony in Port Canaveral, Florida.

Step aboard the newly commissioned USS Indiana, one of the US Navy's most lethal submarines ever built

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