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 ...

Submarines are quite possibly some of the scariest vessels any navy could operate. No, they're not as large as an aircraft carrier or as armed to the teeth as a destroyer, but their ability to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Pennsylvania arrives at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor following routine operations at sea, Oct. 27, 2025. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan Riley/U.S.

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 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 ...

Delegates visit the Saab stand at the Euronaval 2024 naval defense equipment fair in Villepinte, near Paris, on Nov. 4, 2024. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images) WARSAW, Poland — The Polish ...