US to reopen Cold War submarine hunting base in Iceland
AP / FRANCK PREVELA Russian submarine.In a drastic change reminiscent of the Cold War, the United States is seeking to reopen parts of its former military base in Iceland for the express purpose of driving out Russian submarines. The base,…
Egypt receives the first German submarine
Egypt receives the first German submarine
Official inauguration of the new submarine in Hamburg, Germany.
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Russia says first submarine-launched missiles hit IS
Published on: 12/08/2015 - 10:17 PMAmended: 08/12/2015 - 22:31
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday…
History of the men who sailed aboard the first Indian submarine
It was 35 ° C below zero. The sea between an isolated island near Vladivostok (present-day Russia) and the mainland had frozen over. In the bitter cold stood a band of young Indian naval officers and sailors undergoing…
Mabus: Women will be allowed in all Navy and Navy combat jobs
Marine Corps infantry, Navy SEALs and all other Department of the Navy combat jobs will be open to women by the end of this year, and no exemptions to the department's new gender-neutral employment policy Defense will not be granted…
The Peralta family will donate the fallen Navy’s Navy Cross to the ship
Almost seven years after the award was approved, the family of the deceased Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta will be holding his Navy Cross next month. But not for long.In 2004, he seized a grenade thrown by an enemy during a building-cleaning…
SAMENA Board Hosts First Submarine Summit in Dubai
The SAMENA Telecommunications Council of the South Asia-Middle East-North Africa region recently held its first Underwater Summit in Dubai. Held at The Address Downtown Dubai, the summit brought together leading…
The story behind the first submarine to sink a warship
When testing new military technology, there are always risks for operators. Test pilots suffered appalling death rates in the early days of jets, and the MV-22 Osprey suffered a series of fatal crashes during its development,…
What it was like to test the first nuclear underwater reactor
Pumps, valves and heat exchangers, turbines, electric generators, thermometers, control panels - all the hundreds of elements that made up the complex and interrelated systems of the plant - had been tested both mechanically and…
Launch of the first submarine built in Greece
The Pipinos, the first submarine built in Greece, was launched Monday at the Skaramangas shipyard in western Athens.The baptism of the Pipinos took place in the presence of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Deputy Prime Minister…
AE1 mystery continues: Navy search for Australia’s first submarine fails to find conclusive…
The navy chief said the search for Australia's first submarine, missing off the coast of Papua New Guinea for a century, had come to nothing.Mine hunter HMAS Yarra spent four days combing the waters near the Duke of York Islands in search…
Scientists bathe Civil War submarine in search of answers
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The Confederate submarine HL Hunley sits in a preservation tank at a laboratory in North Charleston, SC, before being covered with a chemical bath on Thursday, May 1, 2014. Bathing the hand-cranked Hunley in…
Britain’s last surviving WWII submarine HMS Alliance reopens hatches after £ 7million…
Britain's last surviving WWII submarine HMS Alliance reopens hatches after £ 7million refurbishment By Carol Driver for MailOnline Posted: 08:06 BST, March 31, 2014 | Update: 13:07 BST, March 31, 2014 !-->…
Civil War CSS Hunley – The Civil War Submarine That Kept Sinking
We sometimes observe that there is a fine line between genius and madness. Military history is replete with examples of men who proved the maxim: "Good initiative son, bad…
New light on the Civil War submarine crew
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The United States achieves the first underwater launch of an unmanned aircraft
An unmanned aerial system has been successfully launched from a submerged US Navy submarine.
Once fully developed, the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) expects the system to provide critical intelligence, surveillance, and…
Life aboard the Navy’s top-secret Cold War submarine: dismantled NR-1 ship brought back to…
Life aboard the Navy's top-secret Cold War submarine: dismantled NR-1 ship brought back to life for exhibit on its dangerous missions NR-1 dived deeper than any submarine and had a claw for raking the seabedHe mapped the ocean floor and…
NASNI builds the Navy’s first firefighting submarine
By Todd C. Behrman
November 4, 2013
Smoke rises from the ventilation ducts. The glow of the…
The Civil War submarine may have been destroyed by its own torpedo
During the Civil War, the Confederate Army deployed a submarine called HL Hunley. After sinking an enemy ship called USS Housatonic in 1864, the submarine disappeared after reporting a…
Sunken treasure: WWI submarine whose two captains won the Victoria Cross is discovered off the coast…
Sunken treasure: WWI submarine whose two captains won the Victoria Cross is discovered off the coast of Turkey 94 years after its fallThe government wants the site to be preserved as a war grave25 lives were lost when the ship was hit by…