The U.S. Navy's fleet of submarines might be large, but it only has three Seawolf-class attack submarines: The USS Seawolf (SSN 21), the USS Connecticut (SSN 22), and the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23).

What You Need to Know: In October 2021, the USS Connecticut, a Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine, collided with an uncharted seamount in the South China Sea near China's Hainan Island. The incident ...

Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy is exploring modifications to its Virginia-class submarines to enhance seabed warfare capabilities. This comes as underwater infrastructure, such as cables and ...

-The Seawolf-class was supposed to be the U.S. Navy’s apex hunter-killer submarine: fast, deep-diving, and almost impossibly quiet. -The Navy planned to buy 29. It built three. The Cold War ended, the ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s Seawolf-class submarines—USS Seawolf, USS Connecticut, and USS Jimmy Carter—are powerful yet rare nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines. Built as successors to ...