In 2015, HMS Talent—a Trafalgar-class attack sub—struck floating ice while tracking Russian submarines, ripping a six-foot ...
Australia’s jump to AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines is rooted in the Collins class’s limits: an aging, conventional fleet with a long history of noise, combat-system bugs, engine woes, corrosion, and ...
Every military submarine operated by the United States Navy is nuclear-powered, and this has many advantages as well as some disadvantages. The advantages are clear in that a nuclear sub can typically ...
By John Lee. Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chairman of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), ...
The US Defense Department is currently in the midst of a multi-decade-long nuclear modernization effort that includes replacing all the nuclear submarines making up the sea leg of the US nuclear triad ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A reactor failure on a K-19 nuclear sub in 1961 ended up killing several crew members due to radiation poisoning. It was a horrifying episode that ...
In 1963, USS Thresher sank, killing all 129 aboard—sparking decades of speculation. It remains the deadliest submarine ...
President Donald Trump said Friday he’s ordering the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines, sending a warning to Russia in response to “the highly provocative statements” of the country’s ...