Key Points and Summary - On October 2, 2021, USS Connecticut, one of just three ultra-secretive Seawolf-class attack submarines, smashed into an uncharted seamount in the South China Sea. -A Navy ...

Military weapons are often introduced with bold promises like greater efficiency, revolutionary design, and battlefield dominance on paper. But war has a way of stripping those promises down to their ...

The United States has reached a milestone in building the Navy's first next-generation submarine equipped with nuclear missiles as it races to modernize its air-, land- and sea-based strategic forces ...

The world's first "fifth-generation" battle submarine was unveiled by a Swedish defense manufacturer, Saab. If you're wondering what constitutes a next-generation, or fifth-gen submarine, you're not ...

Virginia-class subs are fast-attack, missile-armed vessels designed for anti-submarine warfare and intelligence gathering operations. The U.S. Dept of Defense issued a total of $13.7 billion in ...

The A-26 is a conventional submarine, meaning it is not nuclear-powered. It can remain submerged for weeks due to its three Stirling engines, which do not rely on air to run. Stirling engines, which ...

World War II was a tumultuous time that saw combat in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Despite how large the planet is, a war that involved every major nation made it seem that much smaller, and ...

Most recent aircraft carriers have been named for US presidents—but this is not a hard and fast rule, and many other servicemembers and officials have also been honored. The answer is, like the naming ...

The Navy is walking away from the Constellation-class frigate program to focus on new classes of warships the service can build faster, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced Tuesday on social ...

Poland is set to buy three A26 submarines to meet the requirements of the Orka programme. (Saab) Poland has selected Sweden as its preferred partner for the supply of new submarines, the country's ...

WARSAW, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Poland said on Wednesday it had chosen Sweden's Saab (SAABb.ST), opens new tab to supply it with three submarines, in a multi-billion-dollar deal that forms a key element of ...