The Borei-class (Project 955) is Russia’s latest generation of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), designed to replace the aging Delta and Typhoon classes. Built for strategic ...

The Russian Typhoon-class SSBN (Project 941 "Akula") is the largest nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine ever built. Designed during the Cold War to counter the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class SSBNs, it ...

Adm. Bill Houston, director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, right, discusses the capabilities of the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine Montana with Vice Adm. Mark Hammond, chief of the ...

The Navy’s Columbia (SSBN-826) class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) program is a program to design and build a class of 12 new SSBNs to replace the Navy’s current force of 14 aging Ohio ...

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced Monday the third Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine will be named for Groton, home of the Naval Submarine Base and Electric Boat, where ...

Unlike their counterparts, ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) — more commonly referred to as "boomers" — are larger and designed to remain undetected in the depths of the world's oceans.

The Ohio-class submarine is an SSBN, an acronym that' means "Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear," but they're generally called ballistic missile submarines or fleet ballistic missile submarine.

The Indian Navy has commissioned its second Arihant-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN). The 6,000 tonne INS Arighat was inducted into the service ...

Summary and Key Points: Commissioned in 1981, the USS Ohio (SSBN-726) marked a significant advancement in the U.S. Navy’s strategic deterrence, being the first of eighteen nuclear-powered Ohio ...

April 18, 2024: The U.S. Navy’s Columbia SSBN (ballistic missile submarine) program is an effort to design and build a new class of twelve SSBNs to replace the Navy’s current force of 14 aging ...

CENTCOM posted a photo Sunday of an Ohio-class submarine transiting the Suez Canal amid heightened tensions in the region.