A comparison between the UK’s Astute-class and the U.S. Virginia-class Block IV nuclear attack submarines reveals two highly capable but distinct designs shaped by national strategies. -While similar ...

China’s industrial base has, for several years, been far outstripping the productive capacity of the West, delivering four ...

Our fourth Astute class submarine, Audacious, has completed her first ever dive at our site in Barrow-in-Furness. Watch as the 7,400 tonne, 97-metre long attack submarine submerges beneath the water.

BAE Systems has received a potential $1.79 billion contract from the U.K.’s defense ministry to design and build a nuclear-powered attack submarine for the British navy. BAE said Wednesday that ...

Nuclear submarines are the latest in monumentally advanced technology powering global military forces. Throughout the entire world, there are only nine nations that have developed nuclear weapons. Of ...

The concerns come as members of a top British inquiry head to Australia this week to inspect progress on the alliance.

LONDON (Reuters) - A British nuclear Astute-class submarine was involved in a 'glancing collision' with a merchant vessel off the coast of the peninsula of Gibraltar on Wednesday, Britain's Ministry ...