Andy Burnham is bracing for his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump just hours after Nigel Farage issued a dire warning to the Prime Minister. Mr Burnham, who will meet with the US President ...

Torpedoes have been around since the 1860s with the introduction of the Whitehead torpedo, and many more models followed in its footsteps. The United States Navy has used several since that time, and ...

Aviation ordnancemen load a Mark 54 torpedo on a P-8A Poseidon aircraft during a proficiency exercise on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. (MC2 Juan S. Sua/Navy) The Navy is exploring two options for ...

USS Barb’s final war patrol became one of the most unusual American submarine stories of World War II. Under Commander Eugene B. Fluckey, Barb moved beyond ordinary torpedo attacks by striking coastal ...

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Ironically, the addition of the human pilot—turning the torpedo into a seaborne kamikaze weapon—appears to have made it less effective. During the opening years of the Pacific War, Japan operated what ...

During Major League Baseball's (MLB) opening season in 2025, the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine home runs in a single game. Six of those homers came from players using a unique ...

On March 4, a U.S. Navy submarine sunk the Iranian warship IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka using a Mark 48 torpedo. The U.S. submarine that conducted the strike is reported by CBS News to have ...

The sinking of the Iranian warship IRIS Dena by a single Mk 48 torpedo has put renewed focus on the U.S. Navy’s primary undersea weapon, a heavyweight torpedo that first entered operational service in ...

A multi-million-dollar U.S. Navy torpedo detonated underneath an Iranian warship in a nighttime submarine strike off Sri Lanka’s southern coast — an attack, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday ...

Since 1991, Navy subs have launched scores of cruise missiles in combat, but the torpedo attack off Sri Lanka is a return to form after 80 years. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington For the first ...