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 ...

On the night of October 24, 1944, in the last year of World War II, the submarine USS Tang sank during the attack on a Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait. Curiously, it had been struck by one of its ...

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, ...