The sixth of the seven Astute-class attack submarines (97 metres, 7,400 tonnes) has undertaken its first diving trials three weeks after being christened and commissioned by King Charles in September. These tests took place in the secure dock at BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness, some 60 kilometres north of Liverpool. They are critical proof that...
The existing mutual defence pact between the USA and South Korea restricts Seoul's ability to use nuclear technology for defence purposes. The Trump administration has now agreed an amendment to this treaty with the South Korean government and wants to make the previously closely guarded technology for nuclear-powered submarines available to South Korea. The US President thus authorised the request...
Just a few days after the official commissioning of the strategic nuclear submarine "Kniaz Posharsky" by President Vladimir Putin in Severodvinsk at the end of July, a message from Kiev has raised eyebrows: Access to the submarine's data network had been hacked and sensitive data and information had been intercepted. The Borey-class boats (project 955A, 170 metres, 20,000...
Just a few days after Russia's president signed a law at the beginning of November withdrawing from the international treaty to stop nuclear tests, the Russian navy demonstrated its nuclear deterrent potential: a nuclear-capable Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the newly commissioned nuclear submarine Imperator Alexander III in the White...
Deborah G. Rosenblum, Under Secretary of State for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defence Programs at the Pentagon, outlined the new course for the modernisation of US nuclear weapons at a press conference on Friday, 25 August 2023. Among other things, Washington wants to replace the Minuteman III with the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile system, the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN)...
In April 2023, the presidents of South Korea and the United States agreed that a US Navy submarine equipped with nuclear weapons would visit South Korea again. This is part of a bilateral agreement on improving the "regular visibility" of US strategic assets on the Korean peninsula and a response to repeated threats and the ongoing nuclear proliferation in the...
In April 2023, the presidents of South Korea and the United States agreed that a US Navy submarine equipped with nuclear weapons would visit South Korea again. This is part of a bilateral agreement to improve the "regular visibility" of US strategic assets on the Korean peninsula and in response to North Korea's repeated threats and progressive nuclearisation....
The Russian Federation Navy's traditional Christmas fireworks display - but one that was probably necessary to mark the end of the calendar year - with keel layings, launches and commissioning was broadcast just in time on 29 December by President Vladimir Putin via video conference from his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, 15 kilometres west of Moscow....
The "Yasen" class (Project 885/885M, 133 metres, 12,000 tonnes submerged) is the benchmark for Russia's nuclear-powered attack submarines. The type boat K-560 "Severodvinsk" has been on its keel for 30 years, but the subsequently modified M-boats only followed a good 15 years later. The construction numbers 2 and 3, K-561...
Some do Christmas shopping - others lay the keels of two Virginia-class attack submarines in the space of 14 days! At the end of November, Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) in Hampton Roads, Virginia, performed the ceremonial keel authentication for the 27th Virginia-class attack submarine. SSN 800 will bear the name...
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