However, under the New Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, each submarine will have four of its missile tubes permanently deactivated in the coming years. The SSBN’s strategic weapon is the ...

A detailed model has provided what’s likely our best idea of how the U.K. Royal Navy’s new Dreadnought class nuclear ...

The SSGN Program Office refueled and converted four ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) into SSGNs in a little more than five years at a significantly lower cost and less time than building a new ...

The U.S. Navy awarded defense contractor Lockheed Martin a $383 million contract to produce upgraded Trident II D5 missiles ...

Collin Koh, a senior fellow at Singapore's Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, noted that such a snapshot of the ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) is uncommon. He commented on X ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As with its other submarine categories, PLAN has been making large investments to field a modernized SSBN force into the coming decades. There are six Type 094..