As the Royal Navy moves to a single class of nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSN), the Astute class, the service life of the Trafalgar class is drawing to a close 41 years after HMS Trafalgar ...

The shipbuilding industry grapples with a severe shortage of skilled labor, impacting the production of complex vessels like the Virginia-class submarines. An aging workforce and difficulties in ...

Arkansas is the final Block IV Virginia-class submarine to be delivered by Newport News Shipbuilding. (Janes/Michael Fabey) Virginia-class attack submarine Arkansas (SSN 800) is on pace to launch ...

The ageing Collins-class submarines have been added to a Defence Department watch list for reliability and maintenance woes, raising fresh doubts about the navy’s ability to conduct undersea ...

Four Collins-class submarines are pictured in formation as they transit through Cockburn Sound on the coast of Western Australia. The last Collins-class boat is scheduled to be operated by the RAN ...

These boats were meant as a replacement to what was then the Royal Navy’s aging Swiftsure-class and Trafalgar-class submarines. Around 1986, the Royal Navy began searching for viable replacements.

New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to begin 2025 with two new commissionings. The last of the Kalvari-class or Scorpene-class submarines and the first of the Nilgiri-class frigates are likely to be ...

The U.S. Navy christened the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia on Saturday. (Chris Rose/HII) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The nuclear submarine Arkansas was ...

As of December 2024, the United States Navy’s iconic Los Angeles-class submarines, coming in at forty-eight years of age, continue to be the workhorse of America’s submarine force. They were ...