As the U.S. Navy submarine fleet gets older, it faces a big problem once those boats retire, and there's no easy solution in ...

Jack Buckby, a New York-based defense analyst and national security researcher, evaluates the mounting "firepower deficit" as the U.S. Navy attempts to replace the Ohio-class SSGN with the Virginia ...

Submarines have quietly become some of the most powerful weapons in modern naval warfare.

The keel was laid this week for the future USS Barb, the 31st Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, as the Navy continues to transition away from dependence on the Cold War-era Los ...

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 ...

A $2.3 billion Navy contract is intended to speed up the purchase and construction of five of the service’s newest class of ballistic missile submarines, a program plagued by cost overruns and delays.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine Kentucky maneuvers during a routine armed air escort exercise, April 24, 2025.

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

Trump Endangers the Handover of the UK’s ‘Last Colony’ 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: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Lionfish was commissioned in 1944 and earned one battle star for service in World War II. It sank a Japanese submarine, ...