Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The SSN(X) is supposed to be the deadliest attack submarine ever — Seawolf's firepower, Virginia's stealth, Columbia's endurance in one hull. It's also slipped...
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The SSN(X) is supposed to be the deadliest attack submarine ever — Seawolf's firepower, Virginia's stealth, Columbia's endurance in one hull. It's also slipped...
America's four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines each do three things nothing else in the fleet can: carry 154 Tomahawks, insert 66 special operators from underwater,...
All five of Britain's Astute-class nuclear attack submarines are sidelined in port at once, awaiting maintenance the Royal Navy lacks the dry docks and...
A satellite pass over Bohai Shipyard in February caught something analysts didn't expect: China's first Type 095 attack submarine, launched without a word from...
One of the greatest joys of my life was back in 2004 when I literally got within 100 feet of USS Connecticut, an actual...
Britain’s Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine is so quiet that sonar operators have mistaken its acoustic signature for a baby dolphin or ambient ocean background...
The strategic logic behind the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) agreement was straightforward. Australia needed nuclear-powered submarines to operate effectively across the vast Indo-Pacific. The...
Each U.S. Navy Ohio-class SSGN guided-missile submarine carries up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Each U.S. Navy Ohio-class SSGN has 22 missile tubes —...
The Soviet Union built the K-19 nuclear submarine to compete with U.S. nuclear submarine programs. Captain Nikolai Zateyev believed the K-19 was unfit for...
The U.S. Navy’s Seawolf-class submarine was supposed to dominate the depths for decades and replace the entire Los Angeles-class with 29 next-generation boats—but only...