The U.S. Navy is trying to pull off a difficult trick: replace the retiring Ohio-class guided-missile submarines without ...

“The Columbia-class program is building the largest submarines the U.S. Navy has ever put to sea and it still has almost no room for delay.” Intended as the sea-based pillar of U.S. strategic ...

Although all of the US Navy’s nuclear submarines have virtually unlimited range, the crews still need to be fed, and the submarines periodically need to undergo maintenance. To ensure that the boats ...

Last month, the Navy conducted four scheduled test launches of unarmed Trident II D5 missiles from an Ohio-class submarine off Florida’s east coast. Some observers read the timing as quiet signaling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unarmed Trident II D5 Life Extension missile launches from an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine off the coast of Florida ...

The Navy’s fleet of Ohio-class boats represents the largest submarines ever constructed for the service. The Ohio-class SSGNs are capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk land attack missiles (TLAMs) in ...

The U.S.S. Wisconsin, a new Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine, had its keel laying ceremony on August 27th. The Wisconsin is the second submarine in the Columbia-class, which will eventually ...