The submarine is the fifth Navy vessel to bear the name Idaho. The first was a wooden-hulled storeship commissioned in 1866. The most recent predecessor was the battleship USS Idaho (BB-42), ...

Few elements of naval warfare are nearly as complex as having submarine-finding aircraft. Submarine hunting is inherently a difficult task, and the amount of equipment needed to effectively track and ...

A powerful United States Navy nuclear submarine, armed with conventional long-range missiles, returned home on Wednesday following a 727-day round-the-world deployment during which it conducted ...

To find replacement parts when something fails unexpectedly, the Navy has sometimes had to "cannibalize" other submarines.