Key Points - Japan's Taigei-class ("Big Whale") diesel-electric attack submarines, with four completed by 2025 including the recently commissioned JS Raigei, represent a significant leap in ...

Summary and Key Points: Japan’s Taigei-class “Big Whale” submarines are portrayed as a generational step beyond the ...

The USS Lionfish was commissioned in 1944 and earned one battle star for service in World War II. It sank a Japanese submarine, rescued the crew of a B-29 bomber, and served as a training submarine.

The fifth of a planned eight Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) attack submarines was launched last Friday at a ceremony at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Kobe Shipyard. The future JS Chogei – ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

The Japanese Navy included five Type A midget submarines in the Pearl Harbor raid of 7 December 1941. Transported on board large I type submarines, the midgets were launched near the entrance to Pearl ...

The first female student was admitted to Japan's national naval submarine academy Wednesday after the end of a ban on women on the country's submarines. Saki Takenouchi, 26, entered the academy in a ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defence minister criticised China on Monday for sailing an advanced stealthy nuclear submarine close to disputed islands claimed by Japan and China, saying the action had ...

TOKYO — Japan’s military said it dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship Tuesday after spotting a Russian submarine off the coast of a southwestern island near Taiwan. The Russian Kilo-class ...