submarines

The Navy hopes to increase its current submarine construction op-tempo and build as many as three Virginia-class submarines per year to more rapidly address the services' attack submarine deficit. The previous status quo had been for the Navy to drop from building two Virginia-Class boats per year to ...

The mom wanted to see her son, Information Systems Technician Submarines 2nd Class Nate Carver, on board on his final submarine mission, surprised, which to her is "priceless." Sonia also wanted to be with her son at a difficult time in her life. Five weeks prior to coming to Guam, Sonia's fiancee died ...

Russell's journey ended up taking seven years, but eventually the filmmaker was able to tell the story of how three hustlers schemed to sell a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $35 million in "Operation Odessa." The cartel wanted the submarine to transport drugs to the U.S. and Canada.

The vessel is designed to launch the Pukguksong-1 nuclear-capable submarine-launched ballistic missile. Given the ongoing process of inter-Korean rapprochement, with the third inter-Korean summit approaching on April 27, South Korea is not keen to discuss its plans to procure new submarines.

... American intelligence determined that a detachment of German submarines had been dispatched to launch a cruise missile attack on the East Coast of the United States. The U.S. Navy deployed forty-six ships and dozens of aircraft to annihilate the incoming submarine wolf pack. The battle that followed ...

Modern submarines are complex and expensive to build and nuclear boats are even more so in both respects. It could take at least 10 years for the first-in-class submarine to nearly two decades for the full class to become operational. The South Korean government reportedly expects that each one could ...

Included in the bill is $5.5 million for the Virginia-class attack program, including funding to procure two attack submarines in 2018 and money to buy materials in advance for submarines planned in 2019 and beyond. There is also an additional $225 million to help suppliers with the ramp up in submarine ...

Dane accused of brutal submarine murder calls himself a 'loving psychopath'. A witness has said Peter Madsen, who is ... Wall, who would have turned 31 on Friday, was last seen with Madsen on the evening of August 10 as his submarine left Copenhagen's harbor. She was due to interview him for a ...

The future U.S. Navy submarine that will bear Montana's name now has its first commanding officer. On Thursday, the Navy announced the initial command team for the USS Montana, led by Cmdr. Michael Delaney. The executive officer will be Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Kahn, and Senior Chief Petty Officer Michael ...

It also includes $1.9 billion for Columbia-class submarines that are being designed to replace the Ohio-class submarine. Electric Boat, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp., is expanding its operations in Groton and Quonset Point, R.I., to accommodate stepped-up ship-building, and is hiring more ...

Wall's Danish boyfriend, who also testified on Thursday, told the court that she "was afraid to go on the trip in a submarine" but that she was "fascinated by people dedicated to something". He reported her missing to police in the early hours of August 11th. Rescuers who plucked Madsen from the sea ...

But “the risk is manageable and well in hand,” Rear Adm. Michael Jabaley, program executive officer for submarines, added. Last week before the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, Navy nuclear programs director Adm. James Caldwell said “it required us to have another motor built” by ...

During the Cold War, the world's leading navies considered the North Pole to be a safe haven for submarines. In 1948, three conventionally-powered U.S. Navy submarines first explored the edges of the polar ice cap. For the mission, the U.S. Arctic Submarine Laboratory, based at Point Loma in California, ...

Construction of ten Block IV submarines is underway, with a focus on making several small-scale design changes to increase the lifecycle of the submarine's components. Doing so is expected to increase the availability of the Block IV submarines, compared to earlier blocks. The Navy plans for Block IV ...

The Columbia-class nuclear submarine fleet, which is currently under development, is set to enter service in 2031 and serve until 2085. The 12 submarines, carrying 16 Trident nuclear missiles each, will replace the Navy's 14 ageing Ohio-class vessels. The Ohio fleet will be decommissioned at a rate of ...

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned its ninth Soryu-class diesel-electric attack submarine (SSK) in a ceremony held on 12 March in Hyogo Prefecture in central Japan. Named JS Seiryu (with pennant number SS 509), the 84-m-long boat was inducted into the JMSDF's ...

The Virginia-class submarine program is a class of nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines serving the U.S. Navy. These submarines are designed for a broad spectrum of open-ocean and littoral missions, jointly constructed by General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries HII . The submarines are ...

Both submarines, as well the U.K. Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant, are participating in the biennial exercise in the Arctic to train and validate the warfighting capabilities of submarines in extreme cold-water conditions. “From a military, geographic, and scientific perspective, the Arctic Ocean is truly ...

The vessels feature strongly-built sails (the protruding structure atop a submarine's main, tube-shape hull) that can punch through several feet of ice. Photos from the US Navy's Arctic Submarine Laboratory, the San Diego-based office that coordinates the exercise, indicate that Connecticut was the first ...

Having spent a large part of my professional career assessing targeting options—ranging from terrorists to buried nuclear facilities, and including mobile missiles and submarines—I am sympathetic to this argument. But prosecuting an attack on a very quiet submarine is quite challenging, so it is worth ...

The Navy began bringing female officers on board submarines in 2010; enlisted female sailors followed five years later. By now, the first 19 female officers have decided whether to sign a contract to go back to sea as a department head, which keeps them on the career path for a submarine officer, or have ...

The United Kingdom's first ballistic-missile submarines were launched in the 1960s. The four Resolution-class submarines, two of which were also built at Furness, were built around the American Polaris submarine ballistic missile. The Resolutions were the sea-based leg of England's nuclear deterrent ...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed plans to sign a contract for the construction of the British Royal Navy's seventh Astute-class submarine. UK Defence Procurement Minister Guto Bebb informed the Members of Parliament (MPs) in a written ministerial statement that the UK defence ministry ...

This 2016 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a base camp for submarine sea ice exercises in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. ... ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Navy has started testing and training of submarines under sea ice off Alaska's north coast that takes place every other year.

Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen, centre, arrives at the courthouse where the trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen, charged with murdering and dismembering Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine begins, in Copenhagen, Thursday, March 8, 2018. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish inventor Peter Madsen went on trial Thursday accused of tying up and torturing Swedish reporter Kim Wall before he either cut her throat or strangled her during a trip on his private submarine in August. Madsen, 47, is charged with murder, dismemberment and ...

A Texas-based seabed intelligence company called Ocean Infinity is currently using submarine drone technology, which is more advanced in efficiency and precision than what was used in previous searches, to try to answer some of those questions. But, so far, it hasn't returned any results either, despite ...

Richardson led the submarine force at the beginning of the integration, from late 2010 to 2012. At that time, some submarine veterans, wives of submariners and active-duty members were calling the change a mistake. The living quarters were too tight, there was little privacy and romantic relationships ...

The Navy named the camp Ice Camp Skate in honor of the USS Skate, the first submarine to surface through open-water surrounded by ice in 1958 and the first submarine to surface through ice at the North Pole in March 1959. The U.S. submarines participating are the Seawolf-class fast attack submarine ...

Members of the media gather in front of the courthouse in Copenhagen on Thursday, awaiting the start of Peter Madsen's trial. The Danish inventor is charged with murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine last year. Mads Claus Rasmussen/AFP/Getty Images hide caption.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — As divers found mutilated body parts in plastic bags on the ocean floor one by one, a gruesome puzzle as dark as any Scandinavian noir emerged in Denmark: A young Swedish reporter who had embarked on a submarine journey to interview its maker was tortured, murdered ...

The earliest missile subs were adapted from more conventional submarines in the 1950s, and the Soviet Echo class, commissioned in 1961, were the first ones designed to employ cruise missiles as their primary armament. Work on a large third-generation cruise-missile submarine, designated as the ...

... Canaveral to host the commissioning later this year of the USS Indiana, a nuclear-powered submarine. The commissioning and related events over a two-day period are expected to attract thousands of people to the Space Coast. The Indiana is the 16th of a series of Virginia-class, fast-attack submarines, ...

K-8 was a Project 627A Kit-class (NATO: November) nuclear-powered attack submarine that sank after a fire in April 12, 1970. (K-8 didn't have a name, the Soviet Union only rarely named its submarines). The submarine had originally caught fire on April 8, 1970, during an exercise in two separate ...

Project 685, also known as K-278, was to be a prototype boat to test future deep-diving Soviet submarines. The Sevmash shipyard began construction on April 22, 1978 and the ship was officially completed on May 30, 1983. The difficulty in machining titanium contributed to the unusually long construction ...

It's the first attack submarine where sailors use an Xbox gaming system controller to maneuver the photonics masts, which replaced periscopes, according to Cmdr. Reed Koepp, the Colorado's commanding officer. Other submarines have joysticks. Koepp leads 130 men. Women serve on submarines but ...

The Navy's next generation ballistic missile submarine will cost $100 billion over the lifetime of the program, an amount Secretary of Defense Richard V. Spencer describes as “eye-watering.” The amount covers everything from research and development of the submarines to construction of the twelve ...

Updated Saturday 11:10 a.m. ET. President Trump has pardoned a former Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to illegally retaining photographs he had taken of classified areas inside a nuclear submarine. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the pardon for Kristian Saucier on ...

During this year's exercise, there are three U.S. and British submarines involved. The most capable among them is the Seawolf-class attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22). Connecticut is being joined in the exercise by the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) and the Royal ...