On the morning of June 21, 1967, Commander Peter Cobb was relaxing in his office. HMS Dreadnought S101 was undergoing maintenance in Gibraltar and his crew was on shore leave. Cobb then received an ...

Key point: These vessels sparked new arms races. They also fired up the world's imagination. Just a few months back, the U.S. Navy began a great experiment: The USS Zumwalt. The first of a probable ...

Britain has laid the keel for the Royal Navy's largest-ever submarine. At BAE Systems's Barrow-in-Furness facility, the ceremony marked the "birth" of the nuclear-powered and armed HMS Dreadnought, ...

Everyone knows that the military has some of the most advanced gadgets, vehicles, and weaponry on the planet. From some of the biggest submarines ever made to missiles and rockets capable of ...

We were impressed by HMS Anson, the UK Royal Navy’s newest hunter-killer submarine that recently completed its first underwater testing. But there’s something even greater waiting to come to the ...

London: Allen Lane Penguin / New York: W. W. Norton, 2024. Pp. xl, 900. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., biblio., index. £40.00 / $49.99. ISBN: 0393292223 British Sea ...