Category Archives: US Submarines/Submarine Tenders etc

Will XavierPublished on: 18 Aug 2026, 3:45 pm The US Navy said that it has completed shakedown trials on the Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) USS Massachusetts and that the submarine is ready for fleet tasking. The navy remarked that, “as a result of the superb material condition and combat readiness,” is waived the post-shakedown availability of the SSN.Continue reading “US Navy attack submarine Massachusetts completes shakedown trials”

She was the lead boat of Plunger class and later renamed A-1 when she was designated an A-type submarine. She is not to be confused with the experimental submarine Plunger (1897) which was evaluated by the US Navy from 1898 to 1900, but not accepted or commissioned. Design The Plunger-class submarines were enlarged and improved versions of the preceding Holland, the first submarine in the USN. They had aContinue reading “Plunger/A-1 (SS-2) was one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy.”

The US Navy has decided that 19 future Virginia-class submarines equipped with the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) will be reclassified as guided-missile submarines (SSGNs), reflecting their increased weapons capacity and expanded precision-strike role. The reclassification applies to future Block V and Block VI Virginia-class submarines fitted with the VPM, a hull extension designed to significantlyContinue reading “US Navy to convert 19 Virginia-class submarines into guided-missile SSGNs”