Submarines came to the forefront of military navies with the advent of WWI, as Germany's dangerous U-boats proved a ...
A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The ...
By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major powers possessed submarines, but their role was still undefined. Were they long ...
Last week, Pistorius and Gram laid the foundation stone for a Norwegian-German submarine maintenance center in Bergen, slated to become operational by the end of the decade. For the first time in ...
By 1917, Germany's 140 U-boats had sunk almost a third of the world's merchant ships. (Source: National WW1 Museum and Memorial, USA.) The SS Maplewood being torpedoed and sunk by German submarine ...
Although the U.S. currently has a larger and vastly superior fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, there is no question Xi’s nuclear submarine construction enterprise is striving to catch up.
At 12:46 a.m. last March 20, seventy-four meters beneath the icy surface of the Arctic Ocean--and in spite of the high-tech monitoring equipment each carried--a pair of submarines, one American ...
On August 29, India’s defense minister celebrated the commissioning of the S3 Arighat, India’s second-ever home-built nuclear-powered submarine. Named 'slayer of enemies', Arighat ...
A lack of warfighting experience, persistent corruption among China’s military leadership, and the prospect of launching a complex assault across a maritime expanse patrolled by American submarines — ...