OSINT: new BOREI-II class SSBN is lengthened
fresh commercial satellite imagery available on Google Earth’s history layers shows that the latest boat is also longer than the baseline version... Read More >....
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First narco-USV
A unique craft was recently intercepted that may drastically change the threat profile in the Adriatic and potentially foretell of similar developments elsewhere: a sea-going unmanned surface vessel (USV) for smuggling drugs....
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Updated. Originally posted 18th June 2019
29SS: Japan's Future Submarine
Japanese submarine builder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries showed off their next generation submarine design.... Read More >....
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Russian Submarine outlook (Part 1: SSBN/SSDN)
Russia's submarine fleet is fighting back from a construction and readiness low-point following the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent economic woes.... Read More >....
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Updated: Originally posted 13th May 2019
Narcosub update
A Low Profile vessel (LPV) has been found on a beach on Costa Rica's Pacific coast...
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Cuba's swimmer delivery vehicle
A new image has emerged which sheds light on the generally unknown Cuban Navy swimmer delivery vehicle (SDV)... Read More >....
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New OSINT: Russian Navy Beluga whale program moves in to GUGI submarine base
In late April fishermen in Finnmark in northern Norway found a Beluga whale wearing a tight harness for external equipment. There is strong evidence that it relates to the previously little-reported Russian Navy Northern Fleet marine mammal program. New satellite images shed new light...
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Taiwanese indigenous submarine program
Taiwan recent unveiled a model of their indigenous submarine design intended to replace the vintage US supplied Hai Shih class submarines (Tench & Balao classes) and relatively more modernHai Lung (Sea Dragon) class submarine which is a sub-variant of the Dutch Zwaardvis class... Read More >....
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Tac Ops podcast with Covert Shores
.Submarine veteran and speaker, Eric Moreno has joined up with Covert Cabal to produce a new pod cast. It was a pleasure to join Eric and Greg at the Tac Ops Podcast last week. The mammoth 1 hr 45 min session has been uploaded to youtube. In it we discuss the recent launch of the new Russian ‘super submarine’ Belgorod, and the Poseidon Inter-continental autonomous torpedo it will carry and much much more...
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