The Soviet Victor III-class submarine was a strategic shock to the U.S. Navy in the late 1970s. -While previous Soviet subs were notoriously loud, the Victor III was terrifyingly quiet, a “black hole” that erased America’s acoustic advantage.

Reserves of critical minerals are front and center as President Donald Trump holds his first formal meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday.

President Donald Trump said the two survivors from a U.S. strike on a vessel suspected of carrying drugs are being sent back to their home countries.

In a naval exercise, a modest $100M Swedish submarine stunned the U.S. Navy by “sinking” a $6B supercarrier — a result that reshaped views on stealth warfare.

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will hold his first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, targeting a bigger U.S. commitment to Australia's critical minerals sector as China tightens control over global supply.

The deployment, part of a broader counter-narcotics operation authorized by President Donald Trump, includes approximately 10% of U.S. naval assets—encompassing eight surface warships, a nuclear-powered submarine,

Russia has maintained—and increased—its submarine operations across the world’s oceans, including the northern Atlantic and the Arctic, which have raised concerns for the U.S. and its NATO allies, as well as in the Pacific, where it recently disclosed missions conducted by nuclear-powered submarines to signal its military capabilities.

The U.S. nuclear submarine USS Miami was destroyed by a catastrophic fire in 2012 while undergoing an overhaul. -The cause was not a technical failure but a bizarre act of arson: a civilian shipyard worker set the blaze simply because he wanted to leave work early.