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Mystery Swedish "not a foreign submarine" Revealed as a "SEAL Carrier"
The Swedish military/Defence Ministry have been unusually quiet in explaining a June 2018 sighting of a mystery watercraft seen from the northern shore of Lidingo island (see red marker on map below)...
View ArticleCould LIBs be combined with Stirling AIP? - Table.
Anonymous has kindly provided the comments (original words) and further translated by Pete below on November 8, 2018.A full Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) system was adopted on the first Japanese Soryu Mark...
View ArticleSubmarine LIBs for India, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Poland,...
Anonymous has kindly provided comments on November 11, 2018 on foreign interest in Lithium-ion Batteries (LIBs) for submarine. Supporting information is difficult to find, but information from...
View ArticleJust 8 Australian Future Submarines, not 12.
The 9th Biennial Submarine Institute of Australia (SIA) Conference,held in Canberra, November 6-8, 2018 has prompted prior and during interviews that give fundamentally different views of Australia’s...
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Russian Navy recruits children to crew Typhoon SSBN
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2018/11/children-sworn-youth-army-onboard-worlds-largest-nuclear-sub . "Proof" below :)Putin's Youth Army - once called "Young Pioneers" - on parade on...
View ArticleAustralia trying new ways to recruit Submariners
https://www.themandarin.com.au/101418-new-competition-launched-to-spruik-one-of-governments-hardest-to-fill-jobs/
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France's Barracuda Delay - Awaiting Improved K15 Reactor
France's future SSN, the Barracuda (first laid down 2007) has been delayed for years due to French delays in developing a new reactor known as the "Improved K15". Of course large existing K15s power...
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INS Arihant's Deterrent Patrol - former Chief Indian Navy Comments
Arun Prakash, a former Chief of the Indian Navy has written an excellent article in the Indian Express, November 7, 2018, concerning the significance of Indian Prime Minister Modi's celebrated “first...
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Japanese Prime Minister Abe Visits Darwin - Bombed in 1942-1943
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and Australian caretaker PM Scott Morrison at bombing of Darwin remembrance ceremony on November 16, 2018 (Photo courtesy Australia’s ABC News).---Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo...
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Argentine Submarine ARA San Juan reportedly found
Above indicates where ARA San Juan was apparently found (Map courtesy UK The Sun newspaper, November 17, 2018)--In the last 3 hours is has been reported in the international media that Argentine...
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Prime Minister Abe Also Remembers WWII Submarine Crew
Paper cranes and photos of Japanese servicemen including submarine crew who died near Darwin during World War II. (Courtesy Kristy O’Brien of ABC News)---On November 16/17, 2018 Japanese Prime...
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Photos of What May Be Parts of ARA San Juan
The following vague, difficult to identify, photos are what the Argentine Navy positively says are parts of Armada [Navy or Fleet] de la República Argentina (ARA) San Juan. There is, unfortunately, no...
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Australia buying Armed Reapers
To show the US is not the only Reaper owner, here is the front of a Reaper owned by Britain's Royal Air Force. (Photo courtesy UK Defence Journal.)---In a Joint Media Release of November 16, 2018,...
View ArticleWhy was ARA San Juan Found Exactly One Year After It Was Lost?
Lost 15 November 2017. Found 16 November 2018.Why ARA San Juan was found exactly one year after it was lost may be coincidence, but more likely Argentine Government generated public relations....
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3 Photos of ARA San Juan showing where parts used to be.
Bow section of ARA San Juan, noting the 6 torpedo tubes. The section is 24m long and 7m wide with explosion and water pressure deforming it. (Photo from Ocean Infinity via Argentine Navy).---Part of...
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Recovering the submarine ARA San Juan?
Photo (from several 100m above) showing how many fragments ARA San Juan 800m has already exploded into and how likely it will crumble further. (Photo courtesy Ocean Infinity's search vessel Seabed...
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Ocean Infinity, That Found ARA San Juan, Working with US Navy
On November 19, 2018 I commented that it is possible that US Navy information of an accuracy that couldn't be made public was provided to the crew on Seabed Constructor and/or Ocean Infinityto find ARA...
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US Navy Submarine & ASW Landlocked Idaho, Stealth, Acoustic Research Detachment
The US Navy maintains its world's most expensive, most powerful, submarine and anti-submarine forces by maintaining large networks of bases and test facilities. Most are, of course, by the sea, but...
View ArticleNaval Group CEO in Canberra, Australia, for “Crisis Talks”
Lisa Martin has written an excellent article for the The Guardian,November 22, 2018, reporting:"French submarine boss summoned to Canberra for crisis talks: ‘Legitimate policy differences’ and...
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The US Orca Extra Large UUV "XLUUV" Competition - Acoustic Testing
The competition to develop the US Navy’s Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle – XLUUV Orcahas at least two initial phases: including the first phase, the design phase. In 2017, Lockheed Martin was...
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