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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...
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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...
Key Points and Summary – Commissioned in 1965, the conventionally powered supercarrier USS America (CVA-66) served in Vietnam, the Mediterranean, over Libya, and during...
Key Takeaways – Britain’s Vanguard-class submarines are the silent backbone of the UK’s nuclear deterrent, built in the 1980s and 1990s to carry Trident...
Key Takeaways – In 2005, the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS San Francisco slammed at high speed into an unmapped seamount, turning a routine...