Because of the specialized nature of submarines, a distinct military strategy called anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, was created to counter them. Its primary objective is to defend ships and allied ...

Submarines are hard to find. They exploit ocean depth, acoustic complexity, and thermal layers to maintain low observability and high survivability. Diesel-electric submarines are especially quiet at ...

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 ...

The United States Navy’s submarine fleet sits at the heart of America’s undersea dominance, yet a crisis is brewing beneath the surface. The Virginia-class submarine program, once hailed as a triumph ...