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Ohio class ballistic missile submarines have tethered buoys allowing them to stay deeper and stealthier while receiving key transmissions.

Both of the Central Kitsap School Board races on the ballot for the Aug. 1 primary feature an incumbent running against a trio of challengers.

The battered Seawolf class submarine that hit a seamount will not be repaired till sometime in 2026 at the earliest.

Gene Thomas Austin, 65, most recently of Taos, Missouri, but truly a man of the world, went home to Jesus with his loved ones by his side on May 23, 2023. Born May 14, 1958 in Moberly, Missouri, to the late Robert Lewis Austin and Janice (Huntsman) Austin, of Cairo, Missouri.

The Navy has finished seismic repairs to one of its Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility dry docks, the service announced late last week. Ohio-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine USS Pennsylvania (SSBN-735) is now in Dry Dock 4 for a refit after the dry dock received a new certification, according to a news […]

Dry Dock 4 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has returned to service and welcomed USS Pennsylvania to the facility.

Visiting admiral praises work being done on four dry docks under repair at Naval Base Kitsap, among other comments in Kitsap visit.

The four dry docks that the Navy shut down in Puget Sound to shore them up against seismic threats should be available for submarine maintenance by July, Navy officials told the Senate on Tuesday. In two separate hearings, service leaders told senators the extra work is to provide additional support to the walls of the […]

US Pentagon invests in naval industrial base as docks and shipyards are due for maintenance and modernisation.

In the flurry of news stories about munitions production and aid to Ukraine, the closure of four dry docks at a U.S. Navy shipyard six weeks ago went largely unnoticed. This development, however, will create massive problems for the Navy’s submarines and aircraft carriers, the industrial base, and national defense as a whole.