Submarine

IDF chief warns Iran remains a threat as Israel welcomes INS Drakon submarine into Navy service

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir called the submarine’s integration a central force-building move on Thursday, as President Isaac Herzog highlighted its strategic significance.

New German-made Israeli submarine 'INS Drakon' embarks from Germany for Israel, September 21, 2026.
The INS Drakon at the TKMS shipyard in Kiel, Germany, in August 2023.

Israel Navy moves toward semi-autonomous fleet with robotic ships

New German-made Israeli submarine 'INS Drakon' embarks from Germany for Israel, September 21, 2026.

IDF: Drakon submarine has stronger weapons, longer underwater capabilities

New German-made Israeli submarine 'INS Drakon' embarks from Germany for Israel, September 21, 2026.

Israel marks delivery of final 'Dragon' submarine as defense officials press for fleet expansion


Missing Titan: The Titanic sub has a history of malfunction - adventurer

60-year-old Arthur Liobl described his trip aboard the Titan as a "suicide mission."

The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken SS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photograph

Missing Titanic sub: experts raised safety concerns about OceanGate Titan in 2018

The issue was that OceanGate did not go through the industry's recognized certification process for the sub's design, fabrication and testing.

A door with signage removed is seen at OceanGate Headquarters at the Waterfront Building within the Port of Everett complex in Everett, Washington, U.S., June 20, 2023.

Titanic submersible: Possible signs of life detected via sonar

Five passengers were on the missing submersible that can keep them alive underwater for a maximum of 96 hours.

 The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken SS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photograph.

Who is on board the missing Titanic sub?

A five-person submersible vessel taking tourists on a $250,000 trip to see the wreckage of the 1912 Titanic disaster 12,500 feet (3,800m) undersea is missing in the Atlantic off Canada.

 TOP LEFT: Shahzada and Suleman Dawood TOP RIGHT: Paul-Henri Nargeolet, French explorer BOTTOM LEFT: British billionaire Hamish Harding BOTTOM RIGHT:

The challenges of recovering the Titanic submarine

A submersible vessel taking tourists on a deep ocean journey to view the wreckage of the Titanic has been missing since Sunday. One pilot and four passengers are aboard.

 Digital art of the RMS Titanic at sunset.

Titanic tourist sub still missing as rescuers race the clock

US and Canadian ships and planes began swarming the area on Monday about 900 miles (1,450 km) east of Cape Cod, some dropping sonar buoys that can monitor to a depth of 13,000 feet.

The Dolphin-class submarine first entered service in 2000

British WWII submarine discovered in Aegean Sea

The "HMS Triumph" was used for missions that included landing agents from the British Special Operations Executive and MI9 organizations.

 The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Triumph (16) underway off Subic Bay, Philippines, during exercises, 8 March 1950.

Iran to expand anti-submarine warfare with torpedo-launching drones

The Iranian Karrar drone has been seen with what looks like a Mark 46 torpedo in previous imagery seen back in April.

A drone is launched from an Iranian submarine during a military exercise in an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on August 25, 2022.

IAI reveals first-ever unmanned Israeli mini-submarine

The “BlueWhale” mini-submarine is intended for covert intelligence-gathering operations, to detect submarines and gather acoustic intelligence.

 The autonomous unmanned BlueWhale submarine.

US plans rare nuclear missile submarine visit in message to North Korea

The submarine visit is also seen as a way to reassure South Korea and quell talk in Seoul of developing homegrown nuclear weapons.

 USS Ohio, a US submarine (R), is docked at a South Korea's naval base in Busan, about 420 km (262 miles) southeast of Seoul, February 26, 2008