For most of the submarines' military history, launching a missile of any kind was out of the question. Subs were primarily used throughout much of the 20th century as covert anti-ship vessels capable ...

Unlike large vessels traveling on the ocean's surface or most other vehicles on the planet, military submarines do not have windows. A submarine's commander can't tell their helmsman to hang a right ...

L. David Marquet is a former US Navy Captain and author who served in the submarine force for nearly three decades. Marquet graduated from the US Naval Academy at the top of his class in 1981, during ...

Because of the specialized nature of submarines, a distinct military strategy called anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, was created to counter them. Its primary objective is to defend ships and allied ...

Submarines are hard to find. They exploit ocean depth, acoustic complexity, and thermal layers to maintain low observability and high survivability. Diesel-electric submarines are especially quiet at ...