On April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring ...

Constructed under the Virginia-class modular design program, Iowa integrates cutting-edge systems for undersea warfare, ...

Dakota Meyer insisted that he not receive any special treatment, and that he would have to earn a promotion to staff sergeant ...

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 first USS Iowa was a pre-dreadnaught battleship, BB-4, first laid down in 1893, then decommissioned in 1903. The second, and most famous, was BB-61, the lead ship of the Iowa class of battleships.

USS Iowa is the 24th Virginia-class fast-attack submarine and was built as part of a “team effort” with General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News ...

Sailors attached to the fast-attack submarine USS Iowa man their newly commissioned submarine during a ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, April 5, 2025. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Joshua Karsten.

GROTON — The Navy commissioned its 24th Virginia-class fast-attack submarine, USS Iowa (SSN 797), in a traditional ceremony held Saturday at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton.

Kelly Sullivan, right, a member of the USS Iowa commissioning committee and her father Jim Sullivan, center, pose with U.S. Army veteran Bill Keane of Waterloo at a watch part for the ...

The U.S. Navy commissioned its 24th Virginia-class fast-attack submarine, USS Iowa (SSN 797), in a traditional ceremony held April 5, at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut.