Here’s What You Need to Know: China’s newest Type-039 submarine has some modifications of earlier designs that may indicate it has a different mission. The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s newest ...

The People's Republic of China has been hard at work building new navy vessels over the past few decades. China has poured a lot of money into its Navy, with the introduction of new nuclear-powered ...

China has built upon decades of earlier failures to field a growing submarine force. Its attack boats and boomers have grown much quieter and harder to track. The fleet build-up shows the importance ...

During World War II, of all the varieties of combat service one could enter, submarine service was the most statistically dangerous. The casualty rate for US submariners was 20 percent. The... Here’s ...

Ships attached to a destroyer flotilla with the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy sail in formation en route to a training exercise in the East China Sea. (Wei Chenping/Chinese Defense Ministry) ...