But one could easily make a case that few gigs in the service are quite as hazardous as crewing aboard a vessel in the Navy's vast submarine fleet ... and the hull was not breached on impact.

The flange, S S, is just so strong as to resist any ordinary pressure, and is thereby made safe till crushed back by contact ... ot contact with the side or hull of the enemy that brings the ...

In fact, one of its most defining features was its titanium hull. When the Soviets conceptualized Project 705 Lyra, the Alfa-class in the late 1950s, Moscow envisioned using the submarine to ...

As well as the overall highly streamlined hull form, the SSBN features a notably low-profile, raked sail, something that is increasingly common in modern submarine designs. Some designs have gone ...