Titanium is a strong and non-corrosive metal, making it seem ideal for submarines, but the US doesn't use it due to its cost and manufacturing difficulties.

Arkansas was launched into the James River, the shipyard, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, announced on July 2.

Alfa-Class: Russia’s Titanium Submarine That America Never Could Match What You Need to Know: The Soviet Alfa-class submarine, featured in Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October, was a ...

Faster than the Alfa-class submarine, the K-222 struck fear in NATO fleets with is high speed, sudden strike missile ...

Summary: The Soviet Union’s Alfa-class submarines, introduced during the Cold War, marked a significant advancement in naval technology with their speed, depth capabilities, and innovative use ...

What You Need to Know: In the 1960s, the Soviet Union unveiled the Alfa-class submarines, revolutionary vessels constructed with titanium hulls that allowed for unmatched speed and deep-diving ...

Russia’s Alfa Class fast attack submarine was the SR-71 of the undersea world during the Cold War. The Alfas were largely constructed of titanium, used a liquid-metal cooled nuclear powerplant ...

The designs for Russia’s next class of nuclear attack submarine, the Laika class, were recently revealed. The Laika ships will replace the existing Alfa-class boats, which have been in ...

The first of Navy’s 14 Ohio-class submarines will reach the end of its lifecycle by 2027 — making the launch of its intended replacement, the Columbia-class submarine, an urgent national priority.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The nuclear submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the ...

The Navy is slated to commission its very first Virginia-class submarine designed for a fully gender-integrated crew on Saturday. A submarine designed and built for both genders has been a long ...