Virginia-class submarines are the most advanced fast-attack submarines in the world. The contract concerns the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) upgrade to the fast-attack submarine that aims for an ...

As of last year, the Virginia-class building program was estimated to be 410 months behind schedule. A U.S. fast-attack submarine visited HMAS Stirlinglast month under the Australia-United Kingdom ...

Sailors aboard the Virginia-class fast attack submarine Iowa man the rails during a commissioning ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, on Saturday. (John Narewski/U.S. Navy) The Navy formally ...

SSN-797 was commissioned as USS Iowa, the first Virginia-class submarine of the second Trump administration. It was described as “just the beginning” of a revitalisation of US naval shipbuilding by ...

The 377-foot long nuclear powered fast-attack submarine docked in the Thames River at the Navy submarine base served as the background for Saturday's celebration that was attended by hundreds of ...

Virginia-class submarine program. The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) since FY1998, and a total of 40 have been procured through FY2024.

The Navy’s envisaged successor to the Virginia-class design is the Next-Generation Attack Submarine, or SSN(X). The Navy’s FY2024 budget submission envisaged procuring the first SSN(X ...

Virginia-class submarines are designed to support special operations, anti-submarine and surface ship warfare missions. Electric Boat serves as the prime contractor on the Virginia-class submarine ...

PERTH--In the control room of the American Virginia class attack submarine USS Minnesota, off the Western Australian coast, sonar operators adjust to the chatter of dolphins in new waters where ...

The USS Iowa is the 24th Virginia-class submarine to be commissioned and the first specifically designed to accommodate women. The ban on women serving aboard submarines was lifted in 2010 under ...