The future USS Idaho (SSN 799), the US Navy’s newest attack submarine, was launched from General Dynamics Electric Boat’s Groton Shipyard into the Thames River on August 06, 2024. The important milestone known as the float-off marks the shift of the submarine from construction at the ship...
The USS Idaho (SSN 799), the most recent addition to the US Navy’s fleet of Virginia-class attack submarines, was christened on March 16 at 10 a.m. EDT at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut.
A new article explains just how the U.S. Navy’sVirginiaBlock V and Russian Navy’sYasenM submarine (top) compare. While the American subs carry more weapons, the Russian submarine has a bigger bag of tricks. The navies of both countries have been rivals for decades, dating back to t...
US Navy The newest Virginia-class attack submarine, the USS Colorado (SSN-788),was just commissionedin Providence, Rhode Island. The 15th Virginia-class sub to join the Navy fleet, it’s 377 feet in length and nuclear-powered. It has 130 men on board, can travel at 25 knots underwater,...
The $1.5 billion Trident is the US Navy's largest and most heavily armed ballistic-missile submarine. Looks at the technology of the huge 4-deck vessel, quietest sub in the fleet, that contains sensors and deceptive decoys able to confound searching enemy ships.EBSCO_AspPopular Mechanics...
(orMACV-SOG) led strategic reconnaissance, direct action, sabotage, personnel recovery and other high-intensity missions against targets in North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Activated in 1964, it was a joint task force made up of CIA,Navy SEALs andArmySpecial Forces, along withAi...
"The destroyer is equipped with new type of air defense, anti-missile, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare weapon," according to the website. The new ship is comparable in size to the latest destroyers fielded in Asian waters by the United States, Japan and South Korea, analysts have said...
China's newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank earlier this year, a senior US defense official said on Thursday (26 September), a potential embarrassment for Beijing as it seeks to expand its military capabilities. China already has the largest navy in the world, with over 370 ...