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Key Points and Summary – Britain has officially commissioned HMS Agamemnon, the sixth Astute-class nuclear attack submarine and one of the quietest boats ever...
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Key Points and Summary – Britain has officially commissioned HMS Agamemnon, the sixth Astute-class nuclear attack submarine and one of the quietest boats ever...
Key Points and Summary: The U.S. Navy’s fast-attack submarine (SSN) fleet is facing a critical capacity shortfall just as global threats from China, Russia,...
Key Points and Summary: In February 2009, the British HMS Vanguard and French Le Triomphant—both nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines—collided while submerged in the Atlantic....
Key Points and Summary: In a stunning 1999 exercise, the Dutch diesel-electric submarine HNLMS Walrus penetrated a U.S. carrier strike group’s defenses and simulated...
Key Points and Summary: The 1963 loss of the USS Thresher (SSN-593) remains the deadliest submarine disaster in history, but it birthed the safety...
Key Points and Summary – The loss of the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) submarine remains one of the U.S. Navy’s most haunting unsolved mysteries, claiming...
Key Points and Summary: The Sōryū-class (meaning “Blue Dragon”) is Japan’s premier diesel-electric attack submarine, featuring pioneering Air-Independent Propulsion (AIP) and lithium-ion battery technology....
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 – In a 2013 NATO exercise in the Arabian Sea, the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Dallas proved why American undersea...
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...