[Vlad] wrote in to tell us about his latest project—an RC boat that autonomously navigates between waypoints. Building an autonomous vehicle seems like a really complicated project, but [Vlad ...

We often think of submarines as fairly complex pieces of machinery, and for good reason. Keeping the electronics watertight can naturally be quite difficult, and maintaining neutral buoyancy while ...

The 18 months between July 1940 and December 1941 were known, to the German submarine force, as the "happy time." Fleet headquarters in Germany directed U-boat operations by long-range radio.

What You Need to Know: The UK’s Astute-class submarines are among the most advanced and quietest in the world, rivaled only ...

Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...

a seaman on the U-boat, the UC-18, when it was torpedoed near Guernsey. Seaman Hans Arthur Kuffner, 26, was one of the oldest members of the submarine's crew. His great grand nephew, Andreas ...

These Zeiss binoculars were acquired by the current owner’s father, who was a submarine commanding officer during World War II. On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender.

This is when he was offered the opportunity to travel from Orkney to Shetland on a submarine. The Orcadian newspaper, dated 23 August 1945, reported that 3,500 people visited the U-boat and ...

A bipartisan group of senators wants more details from the Navy and the White House Office of Management and Budget on a ...

In order to meet its commitment to Australia, as well as recover from its own submarine production shortfall, the U.S. must deliver an average of 2.33 boats a year. Only by doing so can it reach ...

Jerry Hendrix, retired Navy captain and senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute, wrote in American Affairs that the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet was 140 boats at its Cold War high, when everywhere ...

An inveterate tinkerer, Lake proved unable to keep his hands off a design even when a boat was nearly finished, and he delivered the first submarine he managed to sell to the U.S. Navy—Seal ...