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World War II submarine USS Tang on the surface

How USS Tang was credited with sinking 31 ships on five patrols before one of her own torpedoes circled back and sank her on Oct. 24, 1944

The last torpedo USS Tang (SS-306) fired on her fifth war patrol did not run

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Suffren, lead boat of France's Suffren class of nuclear attack submarines, at sea in 2020.

France’s fifth Suffren-class nuclear attack submarine, Rubis, left Naval Group’s construction hall in Cherbourg on Oct. 16 on its way to its first launch, France’s arms agency says

CHERBOURG, France — The fifth boat of France’s Suffren class, the nuclear attack submarine Rubis,

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Japanese submarine JS Taigei sailing in the Port of Kobe

Japan has launched Shogei, the seventh Taigei-class submarine, a 3,000-ton-type boat built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Kobe shipyard, with delivery planned in fiscal 2027

Kobe’s shipyard has sent another Taigei-class submarine down the ways. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries held the

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Hughes Glomar Explorer ship at sea

How the CIA built the Hughes Glomar Explorer, posing as a seabed-mining ship, to raise part of a sunken Soviet submarine from 16,500 feet down in 1974

More than three miles of Pacific water lay between the Hughes Glomar Explorer and its

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The submarine Holland on the ways, starboard bow, in 1900.

USS Holland, the first true submarine accepted by the U.S. Navy, was commissioned at Newport, Rhode Island, on Oct. 12, 1900

Sixty-four tons, 53 feet 10 inches long, a crew of seven and a single 18-inch

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USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) returns to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington, after a strategic deterrence patrol on July 28, 2015, before its move to Kings Bay.

Ballistic missile submarines USS Pennsylvania and USS Wyoming arrived at swapped homeports in Georgia and Washington on Oct. 2 as the Navy prepares for the Columbia class

Two Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines have traded coasts. USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) arrived at its

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The Italian Navy submarine ITS Salvatore Todaro (S 526), lead boat of the earlier U212A class, arrives at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, on July 11, 2008.

Fincantieri has laid the keel of the Italian Navy’s second U212NFS submarine, one of four in the program, with delivery scheduled for 2030

Muggiano, the Fincantieri shipyard at La Spezia, now holds the keels of two of Italy’s

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A Mk 48 heavyweight torpedo on public display. XV Excalibur itself is not shown.

XV Excalibur, a 12-meter uncrewed submarine, has become the first Royal Navy drone sub to fire a torpedo, launching a U.S. Mk48 weighing more than 1.5 tonnes off Scotland

The torpedo weighed more than 1½ tonnes and ran nearly six meters long. The submarine

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The Seawolf-class submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) underway in the Philippine Sea in November 2007

USS Connecticut, one of only three Seawolf-class submarines, won’t return to service until summer 2027, nearly six years after hitting a seamount

Summer 2027 is now the Navy’s target for finishing work on USS Connecticut (SSN 22),

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Trieste, with USS Lewis (DE-535) nearby, over the Mariana Trench on Jan. 23, 1960.

How the Navy bathyscaphe Trieste reached 35,797 feet in the Challenger Deep in 1960

Trieste’s depth gauge read 37,800 feet when the bathyscaphe settled on the floor of the

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