The submarine is the fifth Navy vessel to bear the name Idaho. The first was a wooden-hulled storeship commissioned in 1866. The most recent predecessor was the battleship USS Idaho (BB-42), ...

Then-Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti tours a Rhode Island facility responsible for helping make Virginia- and Columbia-class submarines in October 2023. (Chief MC Amanda R.

The Navy is racing to field a new generation of ballistic missile submarines that will eventually rank as the 12 largest ...

By Reader Staff The USS Idaho Commissioning Committee announced earlier in December that the Virginia Class, nuclear-powered ...

Inside the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine and a look at Navy sub school. We travel to Connecticut for the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine. While we were there, we also got a ...

The Navy's investing almost half a billion dollars on a new, Palantir-powered AI system for shipbuilding. Ship OS sped up the workflow for submarine jobs. This capability is starting with private and ...

The race has intensified as the sea ice has been declining. It's one of the harshest environments on Earth. But the Arctic is also of growing strategic importance - where the U.S. is in a race with ...

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard project distinguished Cheyenne as the first submarine to undergo an overhaul as part of a program that extended its total service life beyond 44 years.

To find replacement parts when something fails unexpectedly, the Navy has sometimes had to "cannibalize" other submarines.

A United States submarine, USS Kentucky, which is capable of firing nuclear missiles, carried out an armed air escort exercise with helicopters in the Pacific Ocean last month. The "boomers" are the ...