The U.S. Navy is betting $63 billion over the next decade on 10 Virginia-class attack submarines, several of which will carry a new hull section engineered to launch hypersonic missiles and dozens of ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy hopes it can more quickly deploy hypersonic weapons on submarines by leveraging testing by the U.S. Army and onboard a Navy destroyer, as well as prioritizing funding ...

-These subs are designed for close-quarters combat, equipped with advanced systems such as photonic masts instead of traditional periscopes, and can stay underwater for extended periods due to their ...

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: Submarines are among the most potent assets in a nation’s arsenal, capable of lurking in the ocean’s depths to strike enemy targets... Leadership within the ...

A welder works on a compressed air flask on July 1, 2014, to eventually be installed in a Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine at the Electric Boat company's Quonset Point facility in North ...

Rendering of Block V Virginia-class submarine with Virginia Payload Module. General Dynamics Electric Boat Image This post has been updated to reflect the passage of the Fiscal Year 2023 National ...

The Seawolf-class is often described as one of the most capable nuclear-powered attack submarines ...

General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut, is awarded a $22,209,893,409 fixed-price-incentive, multi-year modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-17-C-2100 for ...

In April, the U.S. Navy’s top admiral revealed that it would deploy hypersonic weapons on its advanced Zumwalt-class destroyers by 2025. This is sooner than the previous plans for hypersonic weapon ...