The following is the Feb. 11, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Virginia-Class Submarine Program and AUKUS ...

Global economies rely significantly on maritime trade, and submarines play a role in defending crucial sea routes. ・Business ...

Jin-class strategic submarine could threaten US territory from the contested waterway, but its flaw may make it easy to track ...

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.

is intended to improve submarine delivery, boost UK engineering capabilities and help maintain the nation’s continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent. That deterrent is currently delivered by the Vanguard ...

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and the Liberal-National Coalition have said that, if they win the next Federal Election, they would attempt to build nuclear reactors in communities around ...

There were no calamitous new developments last year with respect to nuclear weapons—but this is hardly good news. Longstanding concerns about nuclear weapons—involving the modernization and expansion ...

The budget session of the Parliament begins with President Droupadi Murmu addressing the joint sitting of the two Houses, followed by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabling the Economic ...

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Rolls-Royce will manufacture nuclear reactors to power new U.K. submarines under a contract valued approximately at 9 billion pounds ($11.12 billion). As part of the eight-year deal, the biggest ...

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 ...

The UK has tracked a Russian spy ship in its waters twice in recent months. In November, a British submarine followed the vessel and surfaced nearby to turn it away. The UK defense secretary said ...