ROME — Italy has signed a €500 million ($535 million) deal to buy its fourth and final U-212 NFS submarine to be built by state-controlled Italian shipyard Fincantieri. Standing for Near Future Submarine, the new NFS vessels are destined to serve alongside Italy’s four U-212 submarines, and replace its four Sauro-class subs which are due […]
Chinese state media shared a video of what it characterized as a submarine detection device dropped by a US Navy aircraft. The apparent sonobuoy was discovered in the South China Sea near the Second Thomas Shoal. Military maritime patrol aircraft, including China’s planes, routinely use systems like these. China’s coast guard found a submarine detection […]
MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities intercepted another submarine suspected of transporting drugs to Europe from South America and arrested four Colombian nationals who were crewing the vessel, officials said Thursday. Police rescued the occupants after they had scuttled the 20-meter (65-foot) long narco-submarine 518 kilometers (312 miles) west of Cadiz on Tuesday, when it was […]
A US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine surfaced in the Norwegian Sea. It was accompanied by a guided-missile cruiser and two naval aircraft. The show of force comes weeks after Russia sent a submarine and naval fleet to Cuba. A US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic submarine popped up in the Norwegian Sea this week in a […]
An object visible on Google Maps appears to be the U.S. military’s new submarine drone known as the Manta Ray, located at California’s Port Hueneme naval base. The unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), shaped like the sea creature its named after, is part of a new program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli commission investigating suspected wrongdoing in government purchases of submarines and missile boats from Germany issued a warning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. The panel notified Netanyahu that based on evidence gathered thus far, it could ultimately determine that he had used his position as prime minister between 2009 […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli commission investigating suspected wrongdoing in government purchases of submarines and missile boats from Germany issued a warning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. The panel notified Netanyahu that based on evidence gathered thus far, it could ultimately determine that he had used his position as prime minister between 2009 […]
Russia has split up the naval flotilla that docked in Havana earlier this week, sending its nuclear submarine back north to the Atlantic and the rest of its warships south, where they are expected to make a port call in Venezuela, a U.S. official told McClatchy and the Miami Herald on Tuesday. U.S. and Canadian […]
Russian naval ships left Cuba on Monday after a five-day official visit. Among them, the submarine Kazan — with visible damage including panels falling off. Though a shabby look, it won’t affect the sub’s performance, experts told BI. One of Russia’s most advanced new submarines, which just left Cuba, is “falling apart” with damage on […]
Russian naval ships left Cuba on Monday after a five-day official visit. Among them, the submarine Kazan — with visible damage including panels falling off. Though a shabby look, it won’t affect the sub’s performance, experts told BI. One of Russia’s most advanced new submarines, which just left Cuba, is “falling apart” with damage on […]
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence minister said on Tuesday that they have a “grasp” of the situation after pictures appeared online of a Chinese nuclear submarine surfacing in the sensitive Taiwan Strait near Taiwanese fishermen. The narrow strait that separates Taiwan from China is a frequent source of tension. Taiwan reports Chinese warplanes and warships […]
Rishi Sunak was briefed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after a Russian submarine, Kazan, was sighted off Scotland’s west coast last week near Britain’s naval base at Faslane. A meeting with the Prime Minister was called when Kazan, which did not enter UK waters, was identified by an RAF Poseidon P8 anti-submarine aircraft as […]