The United States Navy has fallen in love ... routinely and unapologetically rely upon diesel-electric submarines to meet ...

In a 2005 war game exercise, the Swedish diesel-electric submarine HMS Gotland managed to "sink" the $6 billion USS Ronald ...

During a 2005 U.S. Navy wargame, a Gotland-class sub demonstrated its prowess by “sinking” an American aircraft carrier, spotlighting the ongoing threat diesel subs pose to surface fleets.

Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that sail with the United States Navy are often thought ... in 2005 when it was pitted against submarines from the Swedish Navy, more specifically, the HMSM ...

But sinking alarmed the US Navy – but it was hardly the ... was sunk at the hands of a relatively cheap, diesel-powered Swedish submarine, the HMSM Gotland. In the 2005 war game, the Gotland ...

As the world’s navies grow, they strengthen below the waves as well as above. Several nations are betting big on submarines.

The nuclear submarine will be the third ship to bear the Long Island name in U.S. Navy history — the first since the escort ...

Ever since it began to acquire nuclear-power submarines in the 1950s, the Navy has resisted procuring new diesel-electric variants. The most modern of these non-nuclear subs have far greater ...

The U.S.-British deal replaced a French one for diesel-powered ... outside help. The United States was a prime source: Its Navy boasted the biggest and most capable submarine fleet in the world.

A US Navy nuclear submarine under construction, the Guitarro (SSN-665), sank in a similar accident in 1969. A failure of communication between two teams at opposite ends of the sub led each to ...