Navy weapons developers are seeking a high-tech, longer range and more lethal submarine-launched heavyweight Mk 48 that can better destroy enemy ships, submarines and small boats, service officials ...

Key Point: The missile is big, it’s bad, and it’s being used all over the world. The U.S. Navy is now prototyping a new, longer range and more lethal submarine-launched heavyweight Mk 48 that can ...

Navy weapons developers are seeking a high-tech, longer range and more lethal submarine-launched heavyweight Mk 48 that can better destroy enemy ships, submarines and small boats, service officials ...

There was a time when elements of the U.S. Navy appreciated the complexity, effort, duration, and assets anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, demanded of a fleet. Expecting to fight a blue-water war-at-sea ...

The Strategic Capabilities Office under the U.S Navy outlined it's intent to seek out offers for a newer, more affordable ...

The upgraded MK 48 Mod 7 torpedo variant will arm the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines with a longer-range, more lethal, and more capable conventional weapon.

March 23 (UPI) --Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the MK 48 heavyweight torpedo efforts. The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, ...

A Pentagon report confirms the effectiveness of modified Mk 48 torpedoes. (US Department of Defense) The US Navy's modified Advanced Processor Build (APB) 5+ Mk 48 torpedo is “operationally effective ...

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has won a potential four-year, $383.1 million contract to produce MK 48 Mod 7 heavyweight torpedo components for the U.S. Navy. The Naval Sea ...

The U.S. Navy's most commonly used torpedo — the Mark 48 — is getting a makeover that will make it stealthier, deadlier and more far-reaching than ever before, according to news sources. The upgrade ...

Anticipating big changes in naval warfare, Lockheed Martin LMT announced the impending closure of two manufacturing plants focusing on the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship, the Mk 48 heavyweight ...

June 21 (UPI) --Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a contract for support of the Mk 48 heavyweight torpedo for the U.S. Navy. The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, ...