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 ...

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 submarine program is $17 billion over budget, and with only two new subs projected per year, the Navy is struggling to meet its growing demand.

The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) since FY1998, and a total of 38 have been procured through FY2023. Since FY2011, Virginia-class boats ...

Silently cruising beneath the waves, the Virginia-class attack submarines of the U.S. Navy only reveal themselves when they return to port—or when they unleash their arsenal of cruise missiles ...

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.

With the exclusion of nearly $2 billion for a major naval effort from the bipartisan stopgap spending bill, lawmakers have effectively punted a decision on the Virginia-class submarine program.

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 ...

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that a Virginia-class submarine will be named for the city of Norfolk. The submarine will follow in the footsteps of three former vessels named for ...

The Navy will beef up its submarine squadron on Guam in the coming months by homeporting one of the service’s most advanced fast-attack subs there. The Virginia-class USS Minnesota is expected ...

The Virginia-class attack submarines, meanwhile, are the General Electric (GE)-provided pressure water reactor S9G which is “designed to last as long as the submarine, two turbine engines with ...