Titanium is stronger, lighter, and more resistant to corrosion than steel. However, no Navy builds its submarines using the ...

The Soviet-era Alfa-class submarine was a groundbreaking, high-performance vessel that demonstrated Russian submarine ...

The deepest a submersible of any kind has ever descended, the BBC reported in May 2019, was 10,927 meters or approximately ...

Why the U.S. Navy Rejected Titanium Submarines in the Cold War The Soviet Union once thought it had an edge over the United States in undersea warfare during the height of the Cold War. The ...

What You Need to Know: The Soviet Alfa-class submarine, featured in Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, was a technological marvel during the Cold War.With a titanium hull, it could dive deeper ...

On Wednesday, Vescovo traveled to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench - 27,480 feet below the surface (8,376 meters) - in a $48 million titanium Triton 36000 submarine. "It felt great to get to ...

Since 2000, at least 14 expedition crews have unsuccessfully tried to find the final resting place of the HMS Trooper, but the ill-fated World War II submarine has finally been located.

Housings are generally made of either titanium or a beryllium copper alloy ... the excess heat generated by the pumping lasers. Submarine repeaters get their power over a dedicated copper sheath ...

One of the key provisions in the Australia-U.S.-U.K. (AUKUS) agreement is for America to sell Australia between three and five Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines beginning in 2032.

They’re sometimes known as sun-dodgers: that group of men and women who spend long spells of time underwater on Navy submarines. It’s a life very few outsiders can truly get their heads around.

However, there's something puzzling about how they're constructed: None of the Navy's submarine hulls are built with titanium. Titanium is stronger, more corrosive resistant, lighter, and better ...