Following a disastrous underwater collision, the Connecticut was originally scheduled to complete repairs in 2025—but its return was pushed back to this year, and could be further delayed.
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The US Navy’s SSN(X) submarine program is slowly sinking

The US Navy does not have the capacity to build the SSN(X) submarines at scale—but rather than acknowledging this, it has simply attempted to delay their completion dates.
Attack submarines are one of the major weapons the U.S. relies on to counter China’s military threat in the Pacific.
The Navy's investing almost half a billion dollars on a new, Palantir-powered AI system for shipbuilding. Ship OS sped up the workflow for submarine jobs. This capability is starting with private and ...
In August 2022, the USS Florida, a nuclear guided-missile submarine, deployed for one of the longest submarine patrols in U.S. Navy history. It returned to its homeport in July 2024, amounting to a ...
South Korea wants to join the undersea naval elite – and has received the blessing of US President Donald Trump to do just that. Having Seoul become the seventh country in the world operating ...