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Reflecting on the Russo-Ukraine War, I am putting together a timeline of the most relevant events in the Black Sea. This should provide a useful overview...
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Revealed: A Key Shipyard In Chain'a Naval Revolution
A small boatyard, backing onto a narrow urban canal, may be playing an outsized role in China's naval modernisation. The unassuming site is in Wuxi, west of Shanghai, and around 90 miles inland.
Analysis indicates that it is building cutting edge uncrewed vessels...
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Covert Shores Updating To HTTPS
This site will be updated to HTTPS standard. This is long over-due, and may take some days/weeks to reconfigure, please bear with me...
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Ukraine's Sea Baby Maritime Drone (USV)
The public first learnt of the now-famous 'Sea Baby' surface drones when they were used on July 17 2023 to destroy a section of the Kerch Bridge.
These small vessels have since shown themselves to be a versitile and enduring design...
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Chinese Invasion Barges Seen In Wild
I broke the invasion barge story in January. At the time, only satellite imagery was available, at least publicly.
Now a short video has emerged showing the barges being exercised on a Chinese beach. The resulting images confirm the earlier analysis; these are invasion barges...
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First Trans-Atlantic Narco Submarine Found In Africa
A narco submarine has washed up on Black Johnson beach of Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa.
As well as being the country's first discovery, it is significant in other ways...
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Russia Reveals 'Katran' Trimaran USV
Russia's Center for Unmanned Systems and Technologies, a tech accelerator, have revealed a new trimaran aluminum surface drone (USV). The USV has been labelled 'Katran', the Russian name for the Spiny Dogfish, a small species of shark....
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North Korea Reveals Nuclear Submarine, And It Is Ginormous
North Korea revealed its first nuclear submarine, with reports of Kim Jung Un's visit to the shipyard appearing in North Korean state media and reported in Western media.
It is clear that the submarine is much larger than earlier North Korean types...
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Ukraine's Toloka TLK-150 Underwater Drone
The Russian Navy is doing badly in the Russo-Ukraine War, losing control of the Black Sea. Ukraine's maritime surface drones (USVs - uncrewed surface vessels) have denied them sea control, and pushed them back to the eastern coast of the Black Sea.
Among the development Ukrainian engineers have up their sleeves, are underwater versions of drones. The Toloka TLK-150 is a publicly displayed version...
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The Soviet's Elaborate Saturation Diver Submarine In The Black Sea
The Soviet Navy Project 1840 LIMA Class submarine, was a unique special purpose boat operational in the Black Sea from 1979 until 1994. Her retro lines, reminiscent of a 1950s submarine, belied an unusual internal arrangement.
Instead of a torpedo room, her forward hull contained an elaborate set of pressurized chambers for divers to live, cut off from the crew...
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