Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points and Summary – Nuclear-powered submarines offer extraordinary endurance, but when refueling finally arrives, it is a painstaking industrial event—not a simple “fill-up.”...
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Key Points and Summary – Nuclear-powered submarines offer extraordinary endurance, but when refueling finally arrives, it is a painstaking industrial event—not a simple “fill-up.”...
Key Points and Summary – In 2015, the French Navy’s compact Rubis-class nuclear attack submarine Saphir slipped through the layered defenses of the aircraft...
Key Points and Summary – South Korea’s KSS-III program is the Navy’s pivot from German-derived boats to a truly indigenous submarine built for long,...
Key Points and Summary – Spain’s S-80 submarine program almost sank under its own weight—literally. -A major design miscalculation left the first boat about...
Key Points and Summary – In February 2009, Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant—both ballistic-missile submarines—collided while submerged in the Atlantic during routine...
Key Points and Summary – The Navy is linking Pearl Harbor history to today’s undersea fight by naming a new Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy has only 53 fast-attack submarines against a formal requirement of 66, even as missions multiply from...
Key Points and Summary – In a little-known 1981 NATO exercise, a Canadian Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine slipped through the screen of the U.S. aircraft...
Key Points and Summary – Sweden’s Gotland-class submarines made headlines in 2005 by sneaking inside the USS Ronald Reagan’s defenses, proving how dangerous small...
Key Points and Summary – The Virginia-class submarine program is supposed to be the backbone of the U.S. undersea fleet, but it is badly...