The Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) partnership has identified the "optimal pathway" to provide Australia with conventionally-armed nuclear submarines by the 2030s with the best of ...

On March 13, 2023, U.S. president Joe Biden, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak met in San Diego, California, to announce the path forward for AUKUS a ...

Russian submarines docked at the Russian naval base in the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus on September 26, 2019. Russia is the “critical challenge” that the United States faces today, the ...

During the Cold War, a time of intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, intelligence was critical. Knowing an enemy’s plans in advance could mean the difference between ...

The United States will likely struggle to deal with the new Cold War in the region. China’s navy already outnumbers America’s, and Russia is keen on checking American submarines.

Though potential enemies like China can challenge the United States in the air, sea, surface, on land and in space—American forces dominate the undersea realm with near impunity.

File photo - The Virginia-class attack submarine Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Indiana (SSN 789) departs Newport News Shipbuilding to conduct Alpha sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean - May 22, 2018.

Fourth, the United States is modernizing but only “racing” to get to where it already is—the 2010 New START allowed level of warheads. And fifth, abolition doesn’t make sense.

Touted as the world’s most technologically advanced fast attack submarine, the USS South Dakota is set to join the US Navy fleet amid a growing threat to American undersea dominance from several ...

The U.S. Navy is testing an unmanned drone ship to independently track enemy ultra-quiet diesel electric submarines to limit their tactical capacity for surprise. CNN values your feedback 1.

The Yankee-Class Submarine’s Specs . The Yankee-class submarines were developed in response to the United States’ deployment of the Polaris missile submarines, such as the George Washington ...

For decades, the United States Navy has operated submarines capable of launching nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. First fielded in the 1960s, nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) patrol ...