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The US Navy’s SSN(X) submarine program is slowly sinking

The US Navy does not have the capacity to build the SSN(X) submarines at scale—but rather than acknowledging this, it has simply attempted to delay their completion dates.
In a single snapshot, the USS Boise attack submarine has not been on the sea since 2015. That solitary hull has since been a ...
Attack submarines are one of the major weapons the U.S. relies on to counter China’s military threat in the Pacific.
The following is the Jan. 26, 2026, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Virginia-Class Submarine Program and AUKUS ...
Long sentences were handed down Wednesday to a couple convicted in a plot to sell our country's secrets about nuclear powered submarines. A judge sentenced former Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebee ...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) recently stated that its Newport News Shipbuilding (“NNS”) division has delivered the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine Massachusetts (SSN 798) to the U.S. Navy.