Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, designed to replace the aging Ohio-class, come with a hefty price tag—around ...

In February 1945, U-864 embarked on a secret mission, Operation Caesar, carrying valuable technology and materials to Japan. However, its journey was cut short when British submarine HMS Venturer ...

In 2005, the USS San Francisco, a U.S. Navy Los Angeles-class submarine, struck an uncharted seamount at 30 miles per hour, ...

Midget submarines have been employed by other military powers throughout history, but the U.S. only had one briefly alongside ...

The U.S. operates several classes of submarines, each of which provides different capabilities depending on mission ...

This reality makes recovering heavily damaged boats and returning them to wartime patrol a paramount concern. Salvaging heavily damaged nuclear-powered submarines while under enemy threat is something ...

a seaman on the U-boat, the UC-18, when it was torpedoed near Guernsey. Seaman Hans Kuffner, 26, was one of the oldest members of the submarine's crew. His great nephew, Andreas Kuffner ...

The 18 months between July 1940 and December 1941 were known, to the German submarine force, as the "happy time." Fleet headquarters in Germany directed U-boat operations by long-range radio.

Not the Blitz bombing campaign, not the Nazis occupying nearby France, but silent, lurking German submarines. 2,937 ships ...

U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of the more than 1,100 Unterseeboote, or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces ...

A bipartisan group of senators wants more details from the Navy and the White House Office of Management and Budget on a ...