A nuclear attack submarine may be the most formidable predator ever built. In 2009, I spent a week submerged aboard the USS ...

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 ...

At first glance, a submarine’s blunt, rounded bow looks wrong. If speed underwater matters, shouldn’t it be shaped more like a sleek fish? In reality, the front of a modern submarine is designed ...

The US Navy is widely regarded for its global undersea superiority, a distinction which the service is intensely working to preserve through extensive modernization and submarine production. Today’s ...

The U.S.S. Wisconsin, a new Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine, had its keel laying ceremony on August 27th. The Wisconsin is the second submarine in the Columbia-class, which will eventually ...

As naval warfare reemerges as a key strategy in the US war with Iran, World War II museum ships are finding new relevance.

The US Navy’s efforts to develop “distributed acoustic sensing” capabilities have included experimental trials on the West Coast. More global communication travels under the seas than via satellites ...

The spectacular destruction of an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka underlines how the US-Israeli military operation ...