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Japanese Submarine Sinks Former USS Juneau in Pacific Anti-Ship Warfare Test Near Guam
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (185+ words) Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force delivered the final blow against the decommissioned USS Juneau during Exercise Valiant Shield 2026, proving how allied submarines can add decisive anti-ship firepower in the Philippine Sea. The June 27 sinking, conducted more than 200 nautical miles off Guam,…...
Russia Deploys Its Most Powerful Nuclear Warship To Guard Arctic Nuclear Submarines
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (835+ words) Russia's only nuclear-powered surface warship is in the final stage of sea trials before returning to active service, with the Admiral Nakhimov expected to strengthen the country's Arctic naval presence by protecting its fleet of nuclear ballistic missile submarines. The…...
Why Brazil Is Building Latin America's First Nuclear Submarine
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (774+ words) The goal. Brazil is building the "lvaro Alberto, set to be Latin America's first nuclear-powered submarine. The partner. It is built at Itagua, near Rio, with French firm Naval Group transferring hull technology. The cost. The wider submarine program has…...
A Japanese submarine sank USS Juneau in World War II. One just did it again as the US and its allies train for a Pacific fight.
4+ hour, 48+ min ago (507+ words) Over 80 years ago, a Japanese submarine attacked and sank the US Navy ship USS Juneau. Now, a Japanese torpedo sent another American vessel bearing that same name to the ocean floor, but under very different circumstances. During a recent exercise,…...
Britain just put a 19-ton drone submarine through the start of two years of sea trials, a boat so autonomous the Navy already drove it submerged from a control room in Australia, 10, 000 miles away, and it's designed to go deeper than the nuclear subs it serves
5+ hour, 4+ min ago (1492+ words) Government contract notices are the phone books of the defense world. Nobody reads them for fun, and the people who write them seem determined to keep it that way. But a contract notice the UK published on June 25 is worth…...
U. S. Navy Orders Saab Mk66 Undersea Target for ASW Training
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (449+ words) Defense Feeds, Washington " The Saab Mk66 undersea target has been selected by the U. S. Navy to strengthen anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training through the procurement of four advanced underwater target systems. The acquisition is intended to provide more realistic training environments for naval…...
China Just Launched Its First Nuclear Submarine From a Shipyard That Builds Aircraft Carriers: Three Yards Now Outbuild America's Two
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (639+ words) For decades, every Chinese nuclear submarine came from one shipyard at Huludao. Then satellite imagery caught something new: a 120-meter boat with an unusually small sail sitting at Jiangnan in Shanghai " a yard that builds carriers, not submarines. An identical…...
How cold launch technology lets submarines fire ballistic missiles without blowing themselves up
8+ hour, 55+ min ago (601+ words) The Times of India...
Letter to the Editor: Anniversary of Albany submarine tests
6+ hour, 43+ min ago (502+ words) June 20 marks a significant anniversary of events in Albany, Western Australia; events that turned the tide of the Pacific War. History records that from March 1942 allied submarines had retreated to Fremantle and Albany via Surabaya and Tjilatjap in Java, Darwin,…...
Construction begins on US Navy destroyer John F. Lehman
16+ hour, 38+ min ago (172+ words) Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun fabrication of the future USS John F. Lehman, a flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer ordered by the US Navy. The destroyer will honour John F. Lehman, who had served as Secretary of the…...