There was a time when elements of the U.S. Navy appreciated the complexity, effort, duration, and assets anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, demanded of a fleet. Expecting to fight a blue-water war-at-sea ...

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has received a $302.2 million undefinitized contract action to produce, deliver and engineer Mark 48 heavyweight submarine-launched ...

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential $1.11 billion contract to provide equipment and support services for MK 48 Mod 7 torpedoes of the U.S. Navy as well as ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Given the small size, VLWTs could also be used as a submarine-launched mobile mine, or SLMM. SLMMs are essentially torpedoes that can be launched and propelled to ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The Mark 48 serves as one of the Navy’s preeminent ...

December 23, 2024: The U.S. Navy is having problems deciding what types of weapons their Virginia class SSN attack submarines should carry. The most favored weapons are launched from torpedo tubes. It ...