June 25, 2026: In each of the last five years China has built three or four submarines a year. During this period China built ten nuclear subs, with an average displacement of 7,800 tons while America ...

General Dynamics Electric Boat shared a photo of the first VPM for the U.S. Navy’s future Virginia-class Block V submarines, beginning with USS Arizona (SSGN-803) ...

JS Sogei, the sixth Taigei-class submarine, entered the water in a ceremony held at KHI’s shipyard in Kobe City, Japan, Oct. 14, 2025. Credit: Japan Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency Japan’s ...

Submarines have quietly become some of the most powerful weapons in modern naval warfare. With the ability to operate undetected beneath the ocean while carrying long-range missiles and advanced ...

BREMERTON, Wash. — The Navy officially has a new “backbone” of its submarine fleet that is bigger, faster, quieter, and has more endurance and firepower than the Vietnam War-era design it passed by in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rendered image of the Virginia Block V attack submarine. (Image courtesy of General Dynamics) The U.S. Navy announced on Monday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Navy's maintenance problems are creating a growing backlog of submarines awaiting decommissioning. 15 subs could spend 14,000 ...

Submarines have been used in warfare for centuries. Undersea warfare has come a long way since the first experimental contraptions took to the seas. The modern nuclear-powered submarine represents a ...

Submarines are some of the most mysterious vehicles the U.S. military has in service right now, which is why the Navy calls its submarine branch the "Silent Service." These war machines are literally ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The US Navy announced tens of billions of dollars for new attack and ballistic missile submarines, as ...

The threat and the promise of submarines played out on opposite sides of the world this year. In early March, a U.S. Navy submarine sank the Iranian corvette IRIS Dena off Sri Lanka with a MK 48 ...

Too many of the U.S. Navy's attack submarines are sitting idle across shipyards awaiting maintenance and decommissioning, according to a new report ...