Jack Buckby, a New York-based defense analyst and national security researcher, evaluates the mounting "firepower deficit" as the U.S. Navy attempts to replace the Ohio-class SSGN with the Virginia ...

The keel was laid this week for the future USS Barb, the 31st Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, as the Navy continues to transition away from dependence on the Cold War-era Los ...

Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) is putting pressure on the Defense Department to award a multiyear contract for block VI Virginia-class submarines in a new letter to Pentagon acquisition chief Michael Duffey ...

This month, a welder at a Virginia shipyard etched the keel plate of the USS Barb, the ceremonial birthing of a new submarine. The Virginia-class fast attack submarine joins hundreds of Navy subs ...

Submarine manufacturer General Dynamics Electric Boat has fulfilled another significant objective in its production for the U.S. Navy. Groton-based Electric Boat delivered to the Navy this week the ...

The U.S. Navy is about to give up its heaviest conventional missile punch at sea, not because it wants to, but because the ...

Virginia-class submarine program. The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) since FY1998, and a total of 41 have been procured through FY2025. From ...