Third Indian SSBN Commissioned
As per report by the UK based Janes Defence Weekly on December 29, 2021, India on November 23, 2021 quietly launched its third SSBN (Nuclear Missile Submarine) at the secretive […]
Category: Submarines
Israeli Submarine Developments
Israel Has Ordered Three New Dakar-Class Submarines from TKMS thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has reached an agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence on the framework conditions for the purchase […]
SSKs for USN? An Alternative View
Diesel Submarines Can Help Resist China. Deterence and warfighting exigencies demand it. Here’s What You Need to Know: SSKs have no need to match SSNs; they need to be good […]
AUKUS & Nuclear Non-proliferation
AUKUS Nuclear-Powered Submarine Deal – Non-proliferation Aspects By John CARLSON – Senior Fellow at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Courtesy of APLN. The following article is part of […]
Nuclear Submarines for Australia – A Hypothetical
This paper was written 10 years ago for presentation at the Submarine Institute of Australia Science, Technology & Engineering Conference held in 2011. The author, Jock Thornton, is: A member […]
VISIT TO HMAS SHEEAN – 25 Feb 03 – GARDEN ISLAND
By Richard Francis Today I managed to score an unexpected conducted tour of one of the RAN’s latest Collins Class submarines, HMAS Sheean, alongside the dedicated submarine berth at West […]
Submarine aircraft carriers
Submarine aircraft carriers by Fred Lane There has been a recent upsurge in interest, mainly on the internet and in journal articles, about submarine aircraft carriers. Most of these involve […]
Tiru and Vendetta
USS Tiru and HMAS Vendetta by Pat Burnett and Sam Sakker. Footnote by Tom De Voil On the night of Thursday 3 November, 1966 the US Submarine Tiru, on passage […]
Torpedo pistols
Torpedo pistols Torpedoes have come a long way since the Ottoman submerged submarine Abdülhamid first fired a torpedo in 1886 and Russian torpedo boats sank the Turkish steamer Intibah on […]
RADM Fluckey USN
Fluckey and the Barb RADM Eugene B. Fluckey USN, the most highly decorated American serviceman then living, died on 28 June 2007, aged 93, of Alzheimer’s disease complications. He won […]