The Seawolf class was too advanced for the procurement logic that produced it. That is the enduring problem, and it still ...
In a sense, Sweden’s A26 submarine is a microcosm of Europe’s defense woes: it can build amazing platforms, but cannot build enough of them on time. Saab has achieved what it calls the world’s ...
A man cannot one day just decide to build a submarine, much less the first powered submarine, much less if that man is a writer. Yet that is just what Narcis Monturiol did. As a young firebrand of the ...
Why can a submarine with no reactor, limited speed, and a modest weapons load still create outsized problems for fleets built ...
A nuclear attack submarine may be the most formidable predator ever built. In 2009, I spent a week submerged aboard the USS Miami, a nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class submarine known to its crew as ...
Most of China's submarine fleet is diesel-electric, but Beijing is ramping up production of nuclear-powered classes.
Submarines have quietly become some of the most powerful weapons in modern naval warfare.