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  1. New Concept From Russia's Famous Rubin Design Bureau

    A Unique Submarine: New Concept From Russia's Famous Rubin Design Bureau
    Flag Russia Modern submarines are undoubtedly amongst the most powerful and effective warships to ever exist. And those offered by Russia's famous Rubin Design Bureau are among the most capable.

    What Rubin feels the world needs is a much more modest submarine. One which is particularly well suited to the types of missions that regular boats are too treasured for.
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  2. Another Narco-Submarine Found In Colombian Jungle

    Another Narco-Submarine Found In Colombian Jungle
    This almost complete narcosub was found at a complex for the production of cocaine. The make-shift facility is believed to relate to the “Western Block Alfonso Cano” (Bloque Occidental Alfonso Cano).

    Based on the limited photographs available the vessel is provisionally identified as a LPV-OM-VSV-8.
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  3. Kalvari Class Submarine: The Scorpène's New Sting

    Kalvari Class Submarine: The Scorpène's New Sting
    Flag India The latest attack submarines to join the Indian Navy, the six Kalvari Class boats were ordered under the P-75 program. A derivative of the French Scorpène Class. they will soon differ in one significant way: they will be upgraded with Air Independent Power (AIP).

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  4. Chinese-Sea-Hunter-USV-Update

    Lonely Child: China's Sea Hunter USV Copy Going Nowhere?
    Flag China This unidentified vessel is believed to be a mid-size USV (Uncrewed Surface Vessel). It closely resembles the U.S. Navy's Sea Hunter USV.

    Recent satellite imagery appears to show the vessel still at the site where it was built. This implies that it has not been trialed by the Chinese Navy.
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  5. IRGC-Saviz-Update

    Attack On Iranian Forward Base Ship In Red Sea: What You Need To Know About Saviz
    Flag Iran Rumors and reports are circulating that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) forward base ship, Saviz, has been attacked in the Red Sea. She may be involved in intelligence gathering, supporting Iranian forces supplying oil to Syria and general support of Houthi forces in Yemen.

    This article provides a quick summation of information on the ship.
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  6. North-Korea-Builds-Surface-Effect-Warship

    Alert: New Intelligence Shows North Korea Built Another Warship
    Flag China North Korea continues to build Surface-Effect-Ships (SES) for its navy despite the generally slow pace of surface ship construction. An unfinished SES has been moved to the outside of the 'new' construction hall at Nampo.
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  7. Chinese-Maritime-Militia-At-Whitsun-Reef

    New OSINT Shows Changes At Whisun Reef
    Flag China The latest tide of OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) from the South China Sea shows that most of China’s fishing vessels have vacated Whitsun Reef. The presence of over two hundred fishing vessels had caused considerable concern in the region.

    But caution is needed in drawing a strong conclusion at this stage.
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  8. Chinese-Navy-Type-100-Sun-Tzu-Class-Submarine

    A Comment On The Fake Type-100 'Sun Tzu' Class submarine
    Flag China This ginormous 210m (690ft) long multi-hull submarine was created for an April Fools' piece I penned for Naval News. In the tradition of these pranks it is not real, and was not meant to genuinely deceive. I am putting this article up so that, in future, if people find misinformation about this submarine they can easily get to the truth.

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  9. China-Censors-Numbers-On-Planes

    OSINT: China Censors Numbers On Navy Plane
    Flag China Chinese media post some excellent photographs of Chinese Navy (PLAN) equipment. But one photo shoot of Y-8Q maritime patrol aircraft (MPAs) was digitally altered to hide the number. An eagle-eyed OSINT analyst spotted it.

    This is only tangential to my normal focus but I thought it is interesting so hope you agree that it is worth sharing.

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  10. Chinese-Navy-Type-927-Anti-Submarine-Sonar-Ship

    China Launches A New Long-Range Anti-Submarine Detection Ship
    Flag China There are a few capabilities which only a handful of navies have. Extremely long-range anti-submarine detection ships is one of them.

    China has launched another Type-927 sound detection ship, the Chinese Navy (PLAN) equivalent to the US Navy's SURTASS ships.
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