Although the U.S. currently has a larger and vastly superior fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, there is no question Xi’s nuclear submarine construction enterprise is striving to catch up.

Names for Navy ships traditionally have been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President and in accordance with rules prescribed by Congress. Rules for ...

In 2024, India commissioned INS Arighaat, its second Arihant-class Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear Submarine (SSBN). This development reinforced India’s strategic balance and peacekeeping ...

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The Defence Ministry has deemed Larsen and Toubro's bid for the Rs 70,000 crore submarine project non-compliant due to unmet Indian Navy requirements, leaving Mazagaon Dockyards Limited with ...

A Royal Navy submarine surfaced just yards from a Russian spy ship in a dramatic show of force to protect British waters. The nuclear-powered HMS Astute emerged from the depths after the Kremlin ...

A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.

It comes after the new Syrian government terminates a 49-year lease on the base the Kremlin brokered with the Bashar al-Assad regime in 2019 Russia’s crucial diesel attack submarines can likely ...

Healey said a Royal Navy submarine was authorized to surface close to the Yantar "strictly as a deterrent measure" and "to make clear that we have been covertly monitoring its every move," BBC ...

He also said he had authorised a Royal Navy submarine to surface close to the vessel “to make clear that we had been covertly monitoring its every move”. The Yantar then left UK waters ...