Inside the CIA’s Most Daring Underwater Heist: Stealing a Soviet Nuclear Sub From the Ocean Floor

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...
PBS

Inside the USS Iowa Submarine Commissioning and a Look at Navy Sub School

Inside the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine and a look at Navy sub school. We travel to Connecticut for the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine. While we were there, we also got a ...
Stars and Stripes

Virginia-class attack submarine is the new ‘backbone’ of Navy’s undersea service

BREMERTON, Wash. — The Navy officially has a new “backbone” of its submarine fleet that is bigger, faster, quieter, and has more endurance and firepower than the Vietnam War-era design it passed by in ...
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What Happens When a Navy Uses Cheap Experimental Weapons Inside a Nuclear Sub

The sub never fired a real weapon - it was only a drill. But a leaking high-test peroxide torpedo reacted with metal inside the tube, igniting a chemical explosion that tore through the first ...