Inside the CIA’s Most Daring Underwater Heist: Stealing a Soviet Nuclear Sub From the Ocean Floor

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...
PBS

Inside the USS Iowa Submarine Commissioning and a Look at Navy Sub School

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 ...
Stars and Stripes

Virginia-class attack submarine is the new ‘backbone’ of Navy’s undersea service

BREMERTON, Wash. — The Navy officially has a new “backbone” of its submarine fleet that is bigger, faster, quieter, and has more endurance and firepower than the Vietnam War-era design it passed by in ...
New Atlas

Royal Navy robotic sub controlled from 10,000 miles away

The prototype Royal Navy robotic submarine XV-Excalibur has provided a glimpse of the fleet of the future by patrolling the waters at HMNB Devonport in Plymouth, England while controlled from a ...
Hosted on MSN

What Happens When a Navy Uses Cheap Experimental Weapons Inside a Nuclear Sub

The sub never fired a real weapon - it was only a drill. But a leaking high-test peroxide torpedo reacted with metal inside the tube, igniting a chemical explosion that tore through the first ...
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S-3 Viking sub hunter has a warning for Russia’s navy

The S-3 Viking left frontline service years ago, but its record stalking Soviet submarines still hangs over today’s naval standoffs in the North Atlantic and Arctic. As Russia leans harder on undersea ...