Nuclear modernisation efforts aren’t undertaken lightly—necessity is typically the driver. The nuclear world is bifurcating. Along one fork sit those favouring the nuclear ban treaty—affronted by the ...

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $68.4 million contract to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to supply interferometric fiber optic gyros (IFOGs) and related ...

The U.S. Navy completed four scheduled flight tests of its nuclear-capable Trident II D5 Life Extension missiles last week. The launches took place off the coast of Florida between September 17 and ...

The Sunday Times newspaper, citing a senior naval source, claimed that the Trident II D5 missile failed after being launched from a British submarine off the coast of Florida in June. The British ...

Lockheed Martin will produce and support the deployment of Trident II ballistic missiles for the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers, the United Kingdom. Challenges surrounding foreign ...

Britain's Ministry of Defence says design work is already underway on new floating dry docks for the Royal Navy.

Missiles like the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II can destroy even small targets with extreme precision.

In recent months, intensifying conflict around the world has called new attention to the possibility of military confrontation between nuclear-armed states. To meet these challenges, the United States ...

The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon’s first weapons test since President Donald Trump ...

SLBMs can be launched from underwater nearly anywhere in the world—and are incredibly difficult to intercept, making them ideal second-strike nuclear weapons. The submarine-launched ballistic missile ...