U.S. forces, aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Forward, brought their Over-the-Horizon boat close to a self-propelled semi-submersible submarine in the Pacific Ocean. The operation is part of ongoing ...

An Australian P-8A anti-submarine warfare aircraft targeted and dropped training torpedoes on a US nuclear submarine. The exercise occurred off the coast of Hawaii during RIMPAC 2024. The crew dropped ...

The United States redeployed a second nuclear-powered submarine—capable of launching long-range Tomahawk missiles—from the East Coast to Hawaii this month, as it moves to position its most-capable ...

Submarines have quietly become some of the most powerful weapons in modern naval warfare.

The U.S. Navy is looking to increase its order of next-generation anti-submarine mines to “meet operational requirements,” according to a recent contract modification. The sea service is requesting ...

Allied firepower in the Western Pacific will get a significant boost with as many as five U.S. and British submarines operating from Australia by 2027, according to a report by an Australian think ...

Nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) come with many advantages. They can stay submerged for long periods of time – essentially for years, if they can carry enough provisions for the crew – whereas most ...

Brent is a Senior Research Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology in the Allison Center for National Security. A fight with China will be a naval war, and after 30 years of budget cuts the ...

The introduction of yet another of America’s finite number of attack submarines into the Indo-Pacific indicates how important of an area of operation it has become. The United States is stacking up ...