There was a time when elements of the U.S. Navy appreciated the complexity, effort, duration, and assets anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, demanded of a fleet. Expecting to fight a blue-water war-at-sea ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Given the small size, VLWTs could also be used as a submarine-launched mobile mine, or SLMM. SLMMs are essentially torpedoes that can be launched and propelled to ...

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has received a $302.2 million undefinitized contract action to produce, deliver and engineer Mark 48 heavyweight submarine-launched ...

A Pentagon report confirms the effectiveness of modified Mk 48 torpedoes. (US Department of Defense) The US Navy's modified Advanced Processor Build (APB) 5+ Mk 48 torpedo is “operationally effective ...

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential $1.11 billion contract to provide equipment and support services for MK 48 Mod 7 torpedoes of the U.S. Navy as well as ...

December 23, 2024: The U.S. Navy is having problems deciding what types of weapons their Virginia class SSN attack submarines should carry. The most favored weapons are launched from torpedo tubes. It ...