At about 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on June 21, a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine launched over two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles into Iran, striking targeted infrastructure sites ...
The Ohio-class SSBN is the archetypal one-mission submarine, created solely to carry and launch Trident ballistic missiles as ...
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 ...
Although all of the US Navy’s nuclear submarines have virtually unlimited range, the crews still need to be fed, and the submarines periodically need to undergo maintenance. To ensure that the boats ...