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This post has been updated to reflect the passage of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act by the Senate on Tuesday evening. THE PENTAGON — Advanced procurement contracts for two of the Navy’s Block V Virginia-class attack submarines have been stalled for 10 months due to an impasse between the service and its […]

The Virginia-class USS Oregon and its crew will be “vital to our undersea mission” the secretary of the navy said

Fourth-generation aircraft are far from “useless.” The Super Hornet and Eagle II are engineered with an advanced suite of next-generation combat capabilities. 

The Super Hornet and Eagle II are engineered with an advanced suite of next-generation combat capabilities. But does that still fall short of what they need to combat America’s adversaries?

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. The entire premise of undersea strategic deterrence is based on the need for nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines to hold potential attackers at risk of catastrophic destruction, without being found, detected, or seen by enemies in any way.  This reality, which is increasingly becoming more complex for submarine weapons developers, might explain why the Navy’s new Columbia-class, nuclear-armed ballistic mis...

Both navies are rushing to add more and better missiles to their attack submarines. The Russian Navy is massively arming up its fleet of attack submarines through a weapons modernization effort intended to add as many as forty-eight new undersea-launched cruise missiles.  The move, according to Russian’s TASS news agency, seekers to grow the strike capabilities of its nuclear-powered Irkutsk submarine two-fold through an upgrade program called Project 949AM.  “Currently, the nuclear-power...