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French Mini-Sub Likely to be used for Australia's Future Submarine
French Special Forces-External Intelligence Directorate (DGSE) "Propulseur Sous-Marins 3rd Generation (PSM3G) for fitting on top of French Barracuda-Suffren Class SSNs and Australian Future Subs...
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China's January 11, 2018, Type 093 Submarine Incursion A SIGINT Probe
Comments here by "PUNTER" and others, has prompted me to revisit the January 11. 2018 incursion of a (probably) Chinese Type 093 SSNinto the Japanese claimed “Senkaku” islands-sea area. The incursion...
View ArticleSubmarine ARA San Juan only had a Weak Hull (eg. 100 Meter Operating Depth)
From November 18, 2017 to December 1, 2018 Submarine Matters reported many aspects of the loss of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan. San Juan remains lost without a trace, even though several...
View ArticleTable of Kawasaki-MAN and wholly Kawasaki Marine Diesel Characteristics
Anonymous in Table A. has kindly submarized some characteristics of diesel engines in Japanese submarine classes since 1960. Anonymous concludes that the current 12V25/25S (of the Oyashio II and Soryu...
View ArticleRevised Table of KHI-MAN Diesels for Japanese Submarines
Anonymous has revised Table A, originally published as Submarine Mattersarticle of February 1, 2018. The revised (now the correct) data is in Yellow with data sources [5] and [6] by experts. ( ) is...
View ArticleSubmarine Matters helping Australia's defence.
Australia's Department of Defence appears to have taken note of Submarine Matters' article titled "Australian Submarine Expert, Senator Patrick, Forgets US Admiral Johnson" of 17 January 2018 at...
View ArticleChina’s decades of weapons to Thailand
Weapons’ exports are a key means for an exporter to influence a recipient. Large sums involved and commercial and national security secrecy of major weapons exports may increase the chances of...
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Japanese WWII submarine sank a US Carrier simultaneously damaging a Battleship
Takakazu Kinashi was born in 1902 on the home island of Kyushu, Japan. He decided when young on a naval career. In 1920 he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy 255th in a class of 255...
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Possible Motor Modifications for Australia's Future Submarine
wispywood2344's diagram of a Soryu class submarine. To accommodate more powerful motor(s) changes like a longer section 12 (at the back) would be required. See larger, more readable, image of the...
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China Critical of Indian Nuclear Submarine's Major Accident
The following is part of a Chinese Global Times article of February 6, 2018 by "Beijing-based naval expert" Li Jie at http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1088479.shtml :“...[India's first indigenous...
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Japan Increasingly its Submarine Propulsion (Diesels & Motors)
Submarine Propulsion in 7 lines. Air through snorkel is sucked into the Diesel Engine. Combustion from [spark and?] compressed diesel fuel produces the Diesel's mechanical power - Which then drives the...
View ArticleRussian Submarine Development as at 2018
In terms of conventional subs (SSKs) Russia has only been able to build and sell Kilo submarines (Project 877) since 1980 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-class_submarine#Project_877_units and...
View ArticleRussian Submarine Building Statistics 2017 - Yasens-Ms
The following is a translation from French, drawing from a long excellent article by "Khan" of January 12, 2018, titled "Russian Shipbuilding [Statistics] 2017". That article is contained in the French...
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Disappearances of Two (High Security) Russian Shipbuilding Engineers
The following draws on a French language article of January 24, 2018 titled "Mysterious disappearances of two Russian engineers" on "Khan's" mainly Russian website, The portal of the naval forces of...
View ArticleRising China "US$42 trillion economy by 2030"
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/china-and-military-balanceversus US$24 trillion for the US in 2030
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Chinese Navy Innocent of Maldives Meddling - Ask India
It seems China and India are jockeying for economic and political position in the strategically important Maldives islands. The Maldives is a Muslim nation of around 430,000 people sitting in the...
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China's Many Problems - Expand South?
China's problems are evident from comments made of late February 2018 to Submarine Mattershere and here. I'm attempting a summary with the following points:China is struggling to achieve economic...
View ArticleAnother Near Catastrophic Russian Nuclear Submarine Fire, occurred in 2011
The Russian Navy suffers a high number of major nuclear submarine fires compared to other nuclear navies. See the April 2015 fire of Oscar class SSGN Orel. Fire was also a part of the August 2000 Oscar...
View ArticleRevised Table A (ver 4) of Diesels for Japanese Submarines - includes...
Anonymous has kindly provided a review, Table A (ver 4), of the earlier Table A (ver 3) (provided February 5, 2018 at Submarine Matters)). At Table A (ver 4) (below) Anonymous introduces the primary...
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Revised Russian SSBN & SSGN Details from Russian Sub Expert
Pete Comment: the following Russian submarine descriptions probably started out being in Russian, then translated into French, then English. Pete has further translated some comments into more correct...
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