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SECRET AUSTEO Report Declassified: Australia's Iraq Preparation Problems 2002
As a contrast to the usual submarine matters, here is an Australian Report partly about Australia’s “SEALs” officially known as the “Clearance Diving Team”.Also mentioned is that Australians were...
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Will somebody give Putie a break after his floating dock broke?!
Putin's Northern Fleet floating some time BEFORE it sank. Could it be Peter the Great battlecruiser (?) inside it.---It was early morning October 30, 2018 in Roslyakovo, within Russia's massive...
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Japanese Large Diameter Unmannned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV) Developments
Commentsby Anonymous, of November 24 and 25, 2018, shed a useful spotlight on differing national requirements for Large Diameter (or Displacement) Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LDUUVs). For example the...
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Japanese LDUUV Developments 2 & Korean Drone Swarms.
After searching the international Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) website I located a civilian research (eg. JAMSTEC) (and perhaps dual-use naval) URASHIMA LDUUV (here) being developed by MHI (Photo...
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Nammo's 30mm ASW, Anti-UUV, Supercavitating Bullets
Nammo has modernized a major innovation, 30mm supercavitating bullets (aka: shells, rounds, ammunition). These armor-piercing bullets could be fired from a helicopter, UAV-helicopter, small ship,...
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Norwegian Frigate Helge Ingstad Collision - Human Error vs Design
Due to popular demand here is the poor Norwegian frigate story. The situation is more complex than a kneejerk reaction "navies with frigates/destroyers based on the Navantia F100 design are hiding...
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Australian Future Submarines likely 2 years Late + Maybe $20 Billion Extra
French President Macron (left) is only too happy to sell submarines, on better terms for France, to a temporary Australian Prime Minister (whose name is Scott Morrison) who is on the right.---France...
View ArticleSubmarines can be Lifeguards - Late President George H W Bush
(Above and Below) USS Finback, in a "Lifeguard" role, in 1944, saves thelate George H W Bush who died November 30, 2018.Above video is from a US TV network (not Youtube) so may time out soon. ---By...
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Another Leased Indian Akula SSN will Guard its SSBNs
India's leased Chakra II Akula class SSN (above) needs replacing or supplementing with another leased Akula.---Flowing from December 2018 reports it is likely several Indian entities will eventually...
View ArticleInteresting Comment Norwegian Frigate Sinking, Tests or Crew?
Following Submarine Mattersarticle of December 4, 2018 Gorka L Martinez Mezo has made December 8, 2018 comments on the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad sinking. Gorka comments:"I'm really surprised by...
View ArticleRussian Re-Penetration of Czech Intelligence
PETE COMMENTThe ability of Russian-sponsored hackers “to access personal information about Czech government employees” may be a real worry because:- it may help point to any Czech employees who are...
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Thoughtful Comment on Australian Future Submarine Choices
Following Submarine Matters, December 5, 2018 article "Australian Future Submarines likely 2 years Late + Maybe $20 Billion Extra"an Anonymous has commented:The Germans have never built a sub in the...
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Japan may use UUVs, SOSUS and USVs in East China Sea
To illustrate Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) uses of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) above and below are illustrations of a ASW detection networks utilising SOSUS with hydrophones also being...
View ArticleThe Sea Hunter ACTUV's Over and Undersea Towing Abilities
DARPA and its customer, the US Navy, have been developing Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (TALONS) for years. In September 2015 DARPA demonstrated a prototype of the low-cost TALONS, a fully...
View ArticleThe Care and STEALING of Towed Sonars "SURTASS"
An excellent JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) July 2017 Youtube. From 1 minute, 3 seconds it illustrates a US submarine using a Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS). Great on submarine...
View ArticleAustralia's New Underwhelming Future Sub Name. SPA next year.
Quite underwhelming is the (current) Australian Government's not very original naming of the Australian Future Submarine as the "Attack class".This will cause future confusion as the world's most...
View ArticleRetired Senior Naval Officers Propose a Collins II Submarine
Showing how debates in Submarine Matter's reflect more broadly held naval debates, below is part of Andew Greene's and David Lewis' excellent article in Australia's Government owned ABC News:“Prime...
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Excellent Youtube & Description - Submarine Communications
In this March 2018 Youtube Professor Simon Holland provides an excellent presentation, with graphics, on submarines comms.--Youtube above - at about 3min 35secs Extremely Low Frequencies (ELF) is...
View ArticleThe Columbia Class: New US Ballistic Missile Submarine
The September 2017 Youtube above gets particularly interesting on the future Columbia class SSBN's differences and cost issues 2 minutes, 20 seconds in.
View ArticleJapan’s NTO aka TNO (2nd Generation LIB) Development
Since 2017 Toshiba has continued the development of a second generation Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) type using Niobium Titanium Oxide (NTO)(aka titaniumniobate (TNO)). NTO is composed of TiNb2O7 . NTO’s...
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