While their legacy endures, the Iowa-class represents a bygone era of warfare, ill-suited for today’s high-tech, unmanned, ...

USS Missouri and the Iowa-class battleships were larger and more lethal than their predecessors. When it comes to legendary ...

BAE Systems has invested more than $260 million in its facilities over the past six years to increase support to the maritime ...

The 377-foot vessel can dive to depths of more than 800 feet below the surface and maneuver at speeds of over 25 knots.

None of the Iowa-class battleships will ever return to service, the latest U.S. Navy vessel named after the state was ...

The idea of reactivating the Iowa-class battleships—notably the USS Iowa, USS New Jersey, USS Missouri, and USS Wisconsin—is ...

Crew gathers on top of the USS Iowa at its commissioning ceremony on April 5, 2025. 31,066 people played the daily Crossword ...

“This generation of adversaries will learn what it means to fear the Ghost,” said Mark Rayha.

USS Iowa (SSN-797), the 24th submarine of the Virginia-class, was commissioned at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, ...

In the 1960s, 82-year-old Navy submarine veteran Bob Kirby was part of the crew of USS Entemedor and remembers hopping on the USS Nautilus on a regular basis to get to his New London-based submarine.

The Virginia-class submarine ... here doing what we do,” he said. The USS Iowa submarine is the latest of several ships named for Iowa. An Iowa steamship was used to transport troops in the Civil War.

Armament Configuration: The submarine boasts four torpedo tubes and two Virginia Payload Tubes (VPT), which can carry Tomahawk missiles capable of striking targets over 1,200 miles away. This armament ...