Key Points and Summary: In May 1969, the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Guitarro sank at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California due to a series of preventable errors and ...
What You Need to Know: In 2005, the USS San Francisco, a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, collided with an undersea mountain (seamount) near Guam while traveling at full speed at a ...
According to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), the Charlie-Class was “originally planned as a small, “mass-production” submarine that would be the lower-cost complement to the more ...