Diesel-electric submarines like the Taigei class offer Japan a fearsome weapon against China—at a fraction of the cost of cutting-edge American ones.

India and the US are also part of the strategic multi-nation constructs, like the Combined Maritime Forces that operates in ...

A nuclear attack submarine may be the most formidable predator ever built. In 2009, I spent a week submerged aboard the USS Miami, a nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class submarine known to its crew as ...

The US is planning to deploy a third aircraft carrier in the Middle East amid the war with Iran. Aircraft carriers, one of ...

Japan now operates five cutting-edge Taigei-class submarines, in addition to its 12 Soryu-class and 6 Oyashio-class vessels.

USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

Destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89) recently departed San Diego to replace USS Robert Smalls (CG-62), the sea service’s last ...

They survived the fall of Bataan, endured years of Japanese captivity, and were crammed into the suffocating hold of a transport ship headed for forced labor in Japan. Then American bombs hit the ...

The JMSDF is procuring Sakura-class OPVs at a rapid pace to strengthen maritime surveillance around Japan amid growing regional security pressures, particularly China’s expanding maritime activities.

Barrow’s shipyards have produced hundreds of warships and submarines for the Royal Navy, but only a handful of Barrow‑built vessels now survive.

In May 1944, Japan’s Na line submarine screen began vanishing in silence as Escort Division 39 hunted it down with sonar, radar, and the forward-firing Hedgehog mortar. USS England and her sister ...