Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Japan designed its Soryu-class diesel-electric attack submarines around a singular objective: to remain invisible underwater, no matter what. The inclusion of two technologies made...
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Japan designed its Soryu-class diesel-electric attack submarines around a singular objective: to remain invisible underwater, no matter what. The inclusion of two technologies made...
Cold War U.S. Navy analysts, watching the Soviets build something extraordinary at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad through the 1960s and 1970s, reached a...
I have been studying Russian submarines since I was just a little kid, and I even toured a diesel Foxtrot-class boat around twenty years...
In addition to being the ocean’s most abundant and widely consumed tuna species, the Skipjack tuna (scientific name Katsuwonus pelamis) is also an efficient...
The conventional assumption, perhaps Hollywood-driven, is that nuclear submarine command is the most stressful leadership post in the Navy—nuclear reactors, confined spaces, ocean depths,...
During the opening days of the current conflict with Iran, U.S. and Israeli strikes targeted the most valuable naval and missile assets operated by...
Being on a submarine can be stressful. It’s an enclosed underwater space where many people are crowded. And that’s even before the potential stresses...
The United States Navy called it an accomplishment when the USS Florida (SSGN-728) returned from a 727-day submarine patrol covering 70,000 miles — the...
Do you ever wonder why the U.S. Navy wants only nuclear-powered and not diesel-electric submarines? Diesel-electrics are much less expensive and easier to build....
At the RIMPAC 2000 exercise, the HMAS Waller, a Collins-class submarine, scored simulated kills on US Navy assets. The target set reportedly included an...