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 ...

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.

Ballistic missile submarines like those in the Columbia class have earned the nickname “boomer” for their powerful punch and massive size. But these subs aren’t the undisputed alphas of the ...

which trades the world-ending nuclear might of a ballistic-missiles submarine, or "boomer," for Tomahawk cruise missiles, mines, and torpedoes. Boomer submarines hide in oceans around the world on ...

January 14, 2009: Britain has hired an American submarine builder (General Dynamics) to design a Common Missile Compartment (CMC) for Britains next class of ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...