After a U.S. submarine sank Iran’s IRIS Dena with a Mk 48 torpedo, attention turned to the Navy’s primary undersea weapon that first entered operational service in 1972.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States Navy’s submarine service is easily the most powerful ever fielded in the history of submarine warfare.

As the top-tier Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine program surges forward with keel laying and additional production, the high-priority platforms have been tasked with ensuring ...

Key Point: The missile is big, it’s bad, and it’s being used all over the world. The U.S. Navy is now prototyping a new, longer range and more lethal submarine-launched heavyweight Mk 48 that can ...

A US Navy submarine launched a Mark-48 torpedo to sink an Iranian frigate - Iris Dena - in the Indian Ocean, marking the first American torpedo strike since World War II.

Lockheed Martin has secured a $245 million contract extension from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command to continue the delivery of essential systems for the Mark-48 Guidance and Control, or G&C, Mod 7 ...

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 ...

Navy weapons developers are seeking a high-tech, longer range and more lethal submarine-launched heavyweight Mk 48 that can better destroy enemy ships, submarines and small boats, service officials ...

The US released footage of a Mark-48 torpedo sinking Iran's IRIS Dena frigate in the Indian Ocean, killing over 80 sailors. This dramatic event, the first enemy ship sinking by a US torpedo since WWII ...

March 23 (UPI) --Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the MK 48 heavyweight torpedo efforts. The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, ...

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has won a potential four-year, $383.1 million contract to produce MK 48 Mod 7 heavyweight torpedo components for the U.S. Navy. The Naval Sea ...

The video captures the moment a US submarine launched a Mark-48 heavyweight torpedo, which struck and destroyed the vessel ...