On October 24, 1944, during World War II, the USS Tang sank off the coast of China. The submarine was destroyed by its own ...

During the Second World War, the U.S. Navy referred to its submarines and their crews as “The Silent Service.” Fittingly, the late great historian Clay Blair Jr. – himself a WWII submariner – chose ...

Submarines are cool, there's no better way to put it. They're boats that travel underwater, and since military ones don't so much as have a single porthole, they use echo location to navigate. One of ...

Torpedoes are not merely underwater missiles designed to fight off enemy ships. For example, the Mark 18 torpedoes used back in World War II were highly complex and advanced weapon systems capable of ...

Submarines are fraught with danger, especially in times of war. Often tasked with operating solo or in pairs, submarines end up going on perilous missions to disrupt material shipping, enemy vessels, ...