The U.S. Navy is trying to pull off a difficult trick: replace the retiring Ohio-class guided-missile submarines without ...

“The Columbia-class program is building the largest submarines the U.S. Navy has ever put to sea and it still has almost no room for delay.” Intended as the sea-based pillar of U.S. strategic ...

Adm. John M. Richardson was chosen Wednesday to succeed fellow submariner Adm. Jonathan Greenert as the next chief of Naval Operations (CNO) in a sign of the Pentagon’s commitment to the expensive ...

Last month, the Navy conducted four scheduled test launches of unarmed Trident II D5 missiles from an Ohio-class submarine off Florida’s east coast. Some observers read the timing as quiet signaling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unarmed Trident II D5 Life Extension missile launches from an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine off the coast of Florida ...

The Navy’s fleet of Ohio-class boats represents the largest submarines ever constructed for the service. The Ohio-class SSGNs are capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk land attack missiles (TLAMs) in ...

The Columbia-class submarine outstrips its predecessor, the Ohio class, in many ways—but falls short in one conspicuous one. America’s naval shipyards are a mess—and have been for many years. US ...