Key Points and Summary – The Virginia-class attack submarine program was supposed to deliver two boats a year. Instead, ...

America’s Virginia-class submarines are the backbone of U.S. undersea warfare — fast, stealthy, nuclear-powered attack subs ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Eight of the new 22-billion Block V deal are being engineered with a new 80-foot weapons section in the boat that enables the ...

Equipped with MK48 heavy torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles, fast-attack subs like the Virginia-class can rain terror on an adversary fleet. It doesn’t really ...

The U.S. Navy’s newest stealth submarine isn’t just quieter, it’s smarter. The USS Massachusetts (SSN-798), part of the Virginia-class Block V line, completed trials this year and represents a major ...

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USS Vermont, a Virginia class fast-attack submarine, quietly leaves WA after a local pure water system was tested on it and ...

HII announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has delivered Virginia-class fast-attack submarine Massachusetts (SSN 798) to the U.S. Navy.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Oct. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has successfully completed initial sea trials for Virginia-class attack ...

Sailors aboard the Virginia-class fast attack submarine Iowa man the rails during a commissioning ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, on Saturday. (John Narewski/U.S. Navy) The Navy formally unleashed ...

The submarine is the 12th Virginia-class vessel delivered by Newport News Shipbuilding.

In this Tuesday, July 1, 2014 photo, a missile hatch for a Virginia class nuclear powered submarine is worked on by Electric Boat employees at the company's Quonset Point facility, in North Kingstown, ...