There are only two shipyards that build the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines: one in Groton, Connecticut, and one in Newport News, Virginia, near my hometown of Norfolk.

Russia’s Kilo-class and Yasen-class submarines are likely considered as a massive, high-tech threat by the Pentagon and China’s growing fleet of Jin-class ballistic missile submarines are acquiring ...

Prior to the development of the "Block-V" Virginia-class submarine, the newest class of attack submarine in the United States Navy was the Seawolf-class. These were built after the Cold War with the ...