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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...
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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 – HMS Agamemnon, the sixth Astute-class attack submarine, has been commissioned into the Royal Navy as Britain doubles down on...
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 – China is quietly opening a new front in undersea warfare. Beijing’s latest AI-enabled underwater drones can execute zero-radius turns,...
Key Points and Summary – A Hong Kong–based report recently claimed that Chinese researchers have developed a “groundbreaking” way to detect even the quietest...
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 – Japan is cautiously opening a debate that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: swapping ultra-quiet diesel boats for...
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: 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 – Commissioned in 1965, the conventionally powered supercarrier USS America (CVA-66) served in Vietnam, the Mediterranean, over Libya, and during...