Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy faces a "worsening attack submarine deficit" because its aging Los Angeles-class submarines are retiring faster than new Virginia-class boats can be built.

HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division hosted the keel laying ceremony today for Virginia-class attack submarine Barb ...

Russia’s Kilo-class and Yasen-class submarines are likely considered as a massive, high-tech threat by the Pentagon and China’s growing fleet of Jin-class ballistic missile submarines are acquiring ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division hosted the keel laying ceremony today for Virginia -class attack submarine Barb (SSN ...