The Navy had to be prepared to fight and win such a war. Enter the Navy’s Sturgeon-class submarine, a landmark in submarine technology. Indeed, these subs provided the backbone of the undersea ...

To rectify this, U.S. engineers got to work to construct a new cutting-edge fast-attack submarine class. Designed as a successor to the Sturgeon-class submarines, the Los Angeles-class ships ...

In August 1993, when the USS Pargo, a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, went to sea with five civilian scientists aboard, George Newton smiled. It had been the end of a long journey for him.

was known in the USSR as the Project 941 Akula-class. At the time it was conceived, Moscow sought a submarine capable of carrying an unprecedented number of ballistic missiles, ensuring the ...