The Torsk's sinking of the Japanese vessel marked the last U.S. submarine kill for over eight decades - that is until March 3, 2026.

WASHINGTON, DC: Amid the escalating tensions in the Middle East and the sinking of an Iranian warship by a United States submarine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that this was the first sinking of an enemy ship using a torpedo since World War II. Let us analyze the defense secretary’s remark and fact-check the claim.

The first USS Utah was lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and no other ship was named for the Copper State until Saturday’s dedication ceremony. Until this past Saturday, in the history of the United States Navy, there had been only one vessel named for ...

When the German submarine U-505 was captured by US forces in 1944, the mission was top secret. Now, eight decades later, the vessel — the only intact German submarine that was captured by US forces during World War II and salvaged — is open to the ...

In the midst of the Falklands War, British sailors hunting for ARA San Luis launched ordnance at the sonar and radar signals of whales, wrecks, and even flocks of seagulls — anything that might have been a submarine hiding in the cluttered, shallow ...