The introduction of the submarine to naval warfare reshaped planning and doctrine. While typical engagements relied on guns ...

Summary and Key Points: The Soviet Union’s Komsomolets submarine, also known as the Mike-Class, represented a significant leap in undersea warfare technology when it was introduced in the mid-1980s.

Upon completion of the underwater part of the test, the crew of the Velikiye Luki took the submarine to the surface and continued to carry out operations in accordance with the plan KALININGRAD, ...

More than fifty years ago in March 1968 the US Navy observed a massive Soviet naval and air search in the North Pacific Ocean ...

USS Puffer (SS 268), the fourth submarine constructed by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company during World War II, was launched on Nov. 22, 1942. Over nine successful patrols in the Pacific, Puffer ...

A submarine is a military or civilian vessel designed to operate underwater for extended periods, capable of diving below the ...

Nuclear weapons produce frighteningly massive detonations that destroy everything in their path. They've only ever been used once during wartime, and the bombs of today are even deadlier than the one ...

From a Western perspective, Soviet engineers seemed to approach their Cold War submarine as if they were high-performance jet fighters meant to out-slug, out-run and out-dive their adversaries in a ...

Modern submarines rely on increasingly complex control systems to maneuver safely in three dimensions, manage propulsion, and ...