A Russian Navy intelligence-gathering ship sailed southwest through the Tsushima Strait between Japan and South Korea on Oct. 27 and 28 and headed into the East China Sea, Japan’s Joint Staff Office said. The Joint Staff identified the vessel as a Vishnya-class intelligence collection ship and released a map showing its hull number, 535. That […]

The U.S. Navy attack submarine USS Colorado (SSN 788) arrived at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia on Oct. 27 to begin a scheduled monthlong maintenance period. For the first time, Australian civilian technicians will carry out routine maintenance on a Virginia-class submarine in Western Australia, working alongside American shipyard specialists, with the U.K. Royal Navy […]

L3Harris Technologies says it supplies the power distribution systems and universal modular masts on every Virginia-class submarine in the U.S. Navy fleet, and the company is now carrying that work into the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program while preparing for the heavier electrical loads expected from directed energy weapons and other new naval systems. The […]

The U.S. Navy has hired the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to look for weaknesses that adversaries could exploit against American submarines and other assets used in subsea and seabed warfare, under a contract worth up to $47.7 million announced by the Department of War on Oct. 21. The laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, will […]

Naval Group has rolled out Rubis, the fifth of six Barracuda nuclear-powered attack submarines it is building for the French Navy, moving the boat out of its construction hall at the company’s shipyard in Cherbourg on Oct. 16, 2026. The submarine was transferred onto the yard’s floating shiplift platform in the presence of Catherine Vautrin, […]