The Astute Journey: Unbuilt British Submarine Designs After The Trafalgar Class
Today the Astute is one of the most impressive, and recognizable, attack submarines afloat.
This article will lay out the unbuilt submarine designs which plot the story from the Trafalgar Class to the Astute class..
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Goodbye My Old Friend: Iran's Fake Aircraft Carrier Sinks, Properly, At Last
There is something tragic about watching an over-enthusiastic actor wallow in their stage death. Running it out for longer than the audience can bear to watch.
It's all over. Finally(?).
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China's Submarine Modernization Continues: 2 Submarines Seen Outside New Shipyard
Following on from my previous analysis for Naval News, multiple Type-039A/B Yuan Class submarines are being built at the Wuchang shipyard outside Wuhan. This can now be clearly evidenced using commercial satellite imagery.
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Disguised Narco Submarine Found In Europe
Police in Malaga, Spain have reported that they have discovered a narco-submarine aboard a ship. It is the fourth so-called narco submarine found in Europe in the last 15 years...
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Indian Navy Submarines Move Closer To AIP Game Changer
Air Independent Power (AIP) greatly increases the survivability of non-nuclear submarines by increasing their underwater endurance. The Indian Navy, unlike its potential adversaries of China and Pakistan has not yet fielded AIP.
But it is moving closer with a locally-designed fuel cell AIP system...
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Updated: originally posted Feb 5, 2017
Soviet Russia's forgotten high-speed AIP submarine
When in May 1958 CIA intelligence analysts poured over a set of spy photographs of Soviet submarine construction they noticed that one submarine was different to the rest. They soon realized that they were dealing with an entirely new class of submarine.
What was undetectable in the photo was that it was equipped with Air Independent Propulsion (AIP)... Read More
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World Submarines Family Tree
I would like to share this resource I built as part of my research into submarine design history. I am trying to make map out which designs influenced which others, and from there which designs can be said to be the most influential submarines.
This is a nuanced topic and the map is only intended as a starting point...
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Incredible New Google Earth Images Of Chinese Nuclear Submarines
The latest high-resolution satellite imagery of Yulin on Hainan, South China Sea, shows 7 submarines. One of the boats, a Type-09IV Jin Class SSBN, has some of its missile doors open. Tents are covering some of the open hatches.
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OSINT Crosshairs: Satellite Catches Submarine Photo Op
During NATO's Dynamic Manta exercise in the Mediterranean last month a German Navy P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft conducted an anti-submarine exercise with an Italian Navy Type-212A Todaro Class submarine.
But the Marineflieger were not the only ones watching...
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5 Most Influential Submarine Designs Ever
These five submarines can easily be argued to have been the most important in overall terms.
Not the Surcouf, I-400, Alfa Class, USS Jimmy Carter or the mighty Typhoon.
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