The U.S. Navy has used standard naming conventions for its ships and sumbarines since it was established in 1775, but who ...

This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the horrors of World War II. Eight decades later, “Hold Strong,” a work of ...

After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. The first of 10,000 ...

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged vessel holding the precious furnishings of the lost 18th century Amber Room, ...

During the Cold War, the term strategic forces referred to nuclear weapons deployed on strategic delivery systems: intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...

A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

Submarines are fraught with danger, especially in times of war. Often tasked with operating solo or in pairs, submarines end ...