A Russian submarine had a ‘Crimson Tide’ moment near Cuba
The 1995 movie “Crimson Tide” saw two U.S. Navy officers square off in a battle of wits, gusto and ideology over whether or not the United States and Russia were…
The USS England was a Japanese sub’s worst nightmare during World War II
Sometimes there can be total domination by an individual or a team.
In sports, we could see it in something like Gayle Sayers scoring six touchdowns in a game, or Randy Johnson pitching a perfect game. In war, it can be racking up a lot …
The crazy way subs used to communicate
How to shut down an enemy harbor
The objective of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was to eliminate the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet as an effective fighting force. This would enable Japan to take the Dutch East Indies and secure China without effective opposition. As his…
This is how the Titanic was discovered on an unrelated top-secret mission
The RMS Titanic was billed as “unsinkable.” Many conflicting reasons have been proposed as to why but, nonetheless, they were proven wrong. When the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, she took wi…
Why Russia’s supercavitating torpedoes aren’t all that great a weapon
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is getting a lot of attention for the slew of almost supervillain-like superweapons it’s produced. These include hypersonic missiles and hypersonic torpedoes, among many others. They also…
A rogue Soviet submarine might have been destroyed trying to start World War III
In March 1968, one of the Soviet Union’s most powerful vessels, a diesel-electric ballistic missile submarine carrying one megaton nuclear weapons, suddenly sank in the Pacific Ocean. K-129 was on…
Here’s what life is like aboard the largest US Navy submarine
Submarines are a tremendous strategic and tactical advantage to countries that have them.
This is what happened to the USS Scorpion
The loss of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN 589) was the last peacetime loss of a Navy vessel until the Avenger-class mine countermeasures vessel
The Russian Navy has been having a lot of problems since the end of the Cold War. The
This is why the Russian submarine fleet is such a basket case
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