For much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, battleships represented the peak of naval power. These massive armored vessels carried the largest guns and symbolized national strength at sea. But ...

Naval combat seems complicated enough, but if torpedoes have to directly impact their target to do damage, it'd be even harder. Do they require accuracy?

The first moving naval “torpedo” was physically attached to the submarine that used it—with perhaps predictable results.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday it had struck the United States' Juffair base in Bahrain, adding that it had been used to attack an Iranian desalination plant earlier in the day.

A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, as Washington and Israel intensified their bombardment Wednesday of Iran's security forces and other symbols of power.