Unlike their counterparts, ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) — more commonly referred to as "boomers" — are larger and designed to remain undetected in the depths of the world's oceans.

In 1959, nuclear ballistic missile submarines, later nicknamed boomers, gave us that invincible first-strike capability. The deployment of boomers and their nemesis, fast attack submarines ...

But now Russia is spending over $350 million to expand and improve its submarine base on Kamchatka island. This will enable its new SSBNs to threaten China, as well as the United States. This is the ...

Displacing more than eighteen thousand tons submerged, the new boomers remain the largest submarines to serve in the U.S. Navy—and the third largest ever built. With the exception of the Henry M.

But now Russia is spending over $350 million to expand and improve its submarine base on Kamchatka island. This will enable its new SSBNs to threaten China, as well as the United States. This is the ...

The USS Kentucky—a class of the U.S. military’s biggest submarines, called “boomers”—arrived Tuesday in the port city of Busan, South Korea. The American warship can stay submerged ...

One concrete results of the effort was the construction of a single nuclear ballistic missile submarine, a “boomer” in arms-control parlance. Constructed at enormous cost, the Xia class of ...

These countries might deploy aircraft and submarines attempting to study the boomer’s acoustic and electromagnetic signature and tail it once it leaves port, hoping to learn how to better detect ...

On July 18, the 170-meter-long Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Kentucky glided up to a quay in the port city of Busan, South Korea—located at the southeastern tip of the ...