Submarines

Navy sends guided-missile submarine into Persian Gulf in not-so-subtle message to Iran

This is the first time an Ohio class guided missile submarine has been in the Persian Gulf in eight years.

The Marine Corps’ next mission: helping to fight enemy submarines

Leathernecks will be getting in on the undersea fight north of Norway and in the Western Pacific, where the U.S....

We salute the USS Indiana for flying this badass battle flag on its way back to port

The Virginia-class submarine USS Indiana returned to its homeport in Groton, Connecticut in late September rocking what appears to be...

The Navy is experimenting with using drones to resupply ballistic missile submarines

The Navy recently used an unmanned aerial vehicle to deliver an unknown payload to the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS...

How the most successful submarine in Navy history ended up sinking itself

It was a tragic and unfitting end for the most successful submarine in U.S. Navy history

The Navy named its newest sub after a WWII legend that sank 17 ships and blew up a train

Once again, the Navy will have USS Barb in the fleet

‘Unbelievable how many ships we sank’ — When Nazi submarines had free rein of the East Coast

‘We were expecting the worst, but the Americans were totally unprepared. We had our choice of targets.’

The history of American submarines

Satellite photos suggest North Korea may be preparing launch of submarine missile

Satellite imagery of a North Korean shipyard on Friday shows activity suggestive of preparations for a test of a medium-range...

The US military is ‘closely monitoring’ a Russian submarine that surfaced off Alaska

U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command are closely monitoring a Russian submarine that surfaced near Alaska...

Satellite photo appears to show Chinese submarine using secretive underwater cave at South China Sea base

A Planet Labs commercial satellite managed to capture a rare photo this week of a Chinese submarine at what observers...

How Navy submarines, usually an ideal place for disease to spread, have managed to keep COVID-19 at bay

It’s no secret that submarines with their confined quarters are ideal places for diseases to spread, yet the U.S. submarine...

These US Navy planes help hunt down one of the greatest threats to American aircraft carriers — here’s how they do it

US aircraft carriers operate around the world, sometimes in unfriendly waters, and one of the greatest threats to these symbols...

Navy awards $10 billion contract for next-generation Columbia-class submarine

The Navy on Monday announced a $10.3 billion contract that includes funding plans for the next-generation ballistic submarine Columbia designed...

A foundry provided faulty steel for the Navy’s submarines and covered it up, feds say

The U.S. Justice Department has reached a $10.9 million settlement with a defense contractor accused of producing substandard castings for...

Navy submarines ventured back into the Arctic for training as Russia kept watch

This year's Ice Exercise was nothing new of the Seawolf-class fast-attack sub USS Connecticut, which also participated in the 2018...

A Navy submariner explains the fine art of smashing through Arctic ice

"Due to under-ice operations, you can't be moving forward. You have to go up at zero speed and straight to...

The Navy just sent a submarine force into the Western Pacific in a message to China

At least seven submarines, and likely more — including all four Guam-based attack submarines, the San Diego-based USS Alexandria and...

The new USS Delaware is ready for a fight

The U.S. Navy commissioned the first submarine to be named after the First State, USS Delaware, on April 4

What it was like to be one of the first female submariners in the US Navy

Lt. Stephanie Treece worked as a certified Navy nuclear engineer, and became one of the first women aboard the USS...

Tom Hanks is here to ‘bring hell from on high’ in new WWII naval flick ‘Greyhound’

Tom Hanks is shipping off to World War II, again.

Navy submarines are now deploying with new ‘low-yield’ nuclear weapons

U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines — boomers — are now sailing with ballistic missiles armed with new "low-yield" nuclear weapons,...

Pearl Harbor could get its first new dry dock since World War II

A surge in demand for attack submarines and the lengthening of Virginia-class subs to carry more missiles has the Navy...

78 years after Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma will sail again

Navy ships named USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma will return to active duty with the announcement by Acting Secretary of...

Submarine base commander says Chinese, Russian subs ‘are definitely catching up to us.’

But the Navy's new Columbia-class subs "will be the most advanced" on the planet.