Top 10 Submarines
The ten greatest submarines ever to dive — U-boats, hunter-killers and boomers, our pick, ranked.
USS Nautilus
The first nuclear submarine — 'Underway on nuclear power' changed naval warfare forever.
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USS Virginia
The state of the art — America's newest hunter-killer, silent, networked and still in production.
HMS Astute
Britain's most advanced boat — quieter than a baby dolphin, they say, with Tomahawk reach.
Severodvinsk
Russia's Yasen-class — the fast, deadly cruise-missile submarine the West worries about most.
USS Ohio
154 Tomahawks in one hull — the converted boomer that became the ultimate strike submarine.
U-47
Günther Prien's boat — it slipped into Scapa Flow in 1939 and sank the battleship Royal Oak.
U-96
The boat that inspired Das Boot — the most famous U-boat of the Atlantic war.
Dmitry Donskoy
The Typhoon — the largest submarine ever built, a 48,000-ton giant with 20 ballistic missiles.
USS Tang
Richard O'Kane's Tang sank 33 ships — the most successful US submarine of the war, lost to her own torpedo.
HMS Conqueror
The only nuclear submarine ever to sink an enemy ship in anger — the Belgrano, 1982.