- Domain
- Sea
- NCF capability
- Maritime combat
- Military Balance category
- Submarines (nuclear)
- SIPRI category
- Ships
- Evidence that places a platform here
- nuclear.powered (attack |cruise missile |guided missile )?submarine · \bSS[BG]?N\b · nuclear.powered · ballistic missile submarine · (Arihant|Ohio|Columbia|Vanguard|Dreadnought|Triomphant|Jin|Shang|Type 09\d|Borei|Borey|Delta|Yasen|Akula|Oscar|Sierra|Virginia|Los Angeles|Seawolf|Astute|Trafalgar|Rubis|Suffren|Barracuda|Chakra|Kursk)
The 24 nations
None, legacy only, modern, or modern and on order. Modern: in service from 1995, or the current generations of fighters, tanks, submarines and long-range air defence.
United StatesModern and on order · 5United KingdomModern · 2AustraliaNoneFranceModern and on order · 3GermanyNoneJapanNoneSouth KoreaNoneCanadaNoneItalyNoneIndiaNoneTürkiyeNoneSaudi ArabiaNoneBrazilNoneIndonesiaNoneMexicoNoneArgentinaNoneSouth AfricaNoneRussiaModern and on order · 9ChinaModern · 5IsraelModern · 1UkraineNoneTaiwanNoneIranNoneNorth KoreaLegacy only · 1
Generation timeline
Each platform from its first flight or launch to today, the 40 most operated, earliest in service first. Grey is development and, after the lead operator retires it, the years other nations keep it; colour is service.
- Development, from first flight or launch
- In service, from first deployment
- After its lead operator retires it, still held elsewhere
- Today
- Flag beside the name: the home country
Dates from Wikidata: first flights or launches for 0 of these 21, retirements for 0. A bar without grey at its start has no first flight recorded.
Platforms
Ranked by the number of the 24 nations that hold each.
| Platform | Operators | Active | On order | In service | Generation | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akula-class submarine | 1 | 9 | 1984 | SUN | ||
| Astute-class submarine | 1 | 6 | 2010 | modern | GBR | |
| Borei-class submarine | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2013 | modern | RUS |
| Delta-class submarine | 1 | 8 | 1981 | SUN | ||
| Dolphin-class submarine | 1 | 6 | 1998 | DEU | ||
| Golf-class submarine | 1 | 1958 | SUN | |||
| Kashalot-class nuclear submarine | 1 | 2 | 1986 | SUN | ||
| Los Angeles-class submarine | 1 | 22 | 1976 | USA | ||
| Ohio-class submarine | 1 | 18 | 1981 | USA | ||
| Project 1144 Orlan battlecruiser | 1 | 2 | 1988 | SUN | ||
| Rubis-class submarine | 1 | 1 | FRA | |||
| Seawolf-class submarine | 1 | 3 | 1997 | modern | USA | |
| Sierra-class submarine | 1 | 2 | 1984 | SUN | ||
| Suffren-class submarine | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2019 | modern | FRA |
| Triomphant-class submarine | 1 | 4 | 1994 | FRA | ||
| Type 032 submarine | 1 | 1 | CHN | |||
| Type 091 submarine | 1 | 2016 | CHN | |||
| Type 093 submarine | 1 | 6 | modern | CHN | ||
| Type 094 submarine | 1 | 6 | 2010 | modern | CHN | |
| Vanguard-class submarine | 1 | 4 | 1993 | GBR | ||
| Victor-class submarine | 1 | 2 | 1967 | SUN | ||
| Virginia-class submarine | 1 | 24 | 17 | 2004 | modern | USA |
| Yasen-class submarine | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2014 | modern | RUS |
| frigate | 1 | PRK | ||||
| Columbia-class submarine | 0 | 3 | modern | USA | ||
| Khabarovsk-class submarine | 0 | 2 | 2026 |
Fingerprints
Each nation's equipment fingerprint with only nuclear-powered submarine in colour.
United States Virginia-class submarine 24, Los Angeles-class submarine 22, Ohio-class submarine 18
United Kingdom Astute-class submarine 6, Vanguard-class submarine 4
France Suffren-class submarine 4, Triomphant-class submarine 4, Rubis-class submarine 1
Russia Akula-class submarine 9, Borei-class submarine 8, Delta-class submarine 8
China Type 093 submarine 6, Type 094 submarine 6, Type 032 submarine 1
Israel Dolphin-class submarine 6
North Korea frigate –