Reports indicate that the US Navy’s new Virginia-class submarines will be equipped to launch hypersonic missiles, significantly enhancing America’s deterrence capabilities.

The Virginia Class attack submarine is the U.S. Navy’s newest undersea warfare platform and incorporates the latest in stealth, intelligence gathering and weapons systems technology. Attack ...

Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy's Virginia-class submarines are facing significant production delays, with reports indicating that construction is running about three years behind schedule ...

Consider the USS Massachusetts (SSN-798), the twenty-fifth Virginia-class submarine, which was scheduled to enter service sometime in late 2024, but now won’t see service until 2025.

The House’s annual Pentagon spending bill only funds the procurement of one Virginia-class attack submarine for fiscal 2025 instead of two vessels as it has in previous years.

Virginia-class submarine program. The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) since FY1998, and a total of 40 have been procured through FY2024.

The Virginia-class submarine USS Minnesota (SSN 783) heads up the Thames River toward Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton. Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Joshua Karsten ...

Introducing the Virginia-Class. When the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War faded in the early 1990s, the Navy first looked to its Seawolf-class submarines to replace the aging Los Angeles class.