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The mainstay of the Russian Navy’s conventionally powered fleet are Project 877–class submarines, known as the Kilo class to NATO and the West.

Nanggala lost contact shortly after the Indonesian Navy gave it permission to dive at 3:00 a.m. The Nanggala was in the Bali Strait, a narrow waterway between the islands of Java and Bali. Here’s the Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) notifying civilian aviators of the torpedo exercise: This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Aerial searchers discovered an oil slick on the ocean...

An Indonesian Submarine Is Missing With 53 People Aboard Kyle Mizokami The Search-and-rescue teams spotted an oil slick in the area where the sub went missing. The search is on for a missing Indonesian Navy submarine, which the service declared overdue after it failed to check in following a torpedo-launching exercise on Wednesday. The sub, KRI Nanggala-402, last appeared off the island of Bali in the Bali Sea and reportedly has 53 sailors aboard. An international force of re...

These submarines may or may not carry nuclear missiles or torpedoes, but it cannot be ruled out. Key point: Israel will do whatever it needs to do to defend itself. Now that appears to include a sea-based deterrent. Israel’s submarine corps is a tiny force with a big open secret: in all likelihood, it is armed with nuclear weapons. The five Dolphin-class submarines represent an ace in the hole for Israel, the ultimate guarantor of the country’s security, ensuring that if attacked with nuke...

Ranked: The Five Best Aircraft Carriers in World History Size matters here: the bigger the ship, the bigger the hangar and flight decks that accommodate the air wing. Here’s What You Need to Know: The finest aircraft carrier is one thats both well-suited to its missions and handled with skill and derring-do when and where it matters most. Anyone whos tried to compare one piece of kit—ships, aircraft, weaponry of various types—to another will testify to how hard this chore is. Ranking a...

After more than twenty years of American submarine supremacy, a new challenger has arisen from the deep. Heres What You Need to Remember: The Virginia class is quieter and has a better sonar rig than its Russian opponent. In the world of submarine warfare, that’s an unbeatable combination. It can move and detect in ways that would give away  Severodvinsk. The United States Navy’s submarine force emerged from the Cold War as the undisputed masters of the undersea realm. The elite, all-nucl...

The International Navies issue is one of my favorites every year, perhaps because it reminds me of some of the  best moments of my Navy career—opportunities to exercise and operate with allied and partner navies. This month, we have 28 foreign navy chiefs writing for the International Commanders Respond section—the highest number ever. We asked them: “Given that every navy must deal with finite budgets and resources, how has your navy found the right balance between force size and force...

Enterprise  sank, or helped sink, three IJN carriers and a cruiser at the Battle of Midway in 1942; suffered grave damage in the Solomons campaign, yet managed to send her air wing to help win the climatic Naval Battle of Guadalcanal; and went on to fight in such engagements as the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, and Okinawa. Thats the stuff of legend. Anyone whos tried to compare one piece of kit—ships, aircraft, weaponry of various types—to another will testify to how hard this chore is. Ran...

The most survivable arm of the nuclear triad is typically the sea-based one. Heres What You Need to Remember: Having three submarines in operation generally means at least one is at sea at any particular time, a necessity for a sea-based nuclear deterrent. The Dolphin class reportedly carries up to sixteen torpedoes and missiles; if the submarines’ primary task is nuclear deterrence, half of its weapons space might be allocated for carrying nukes. The result is that at any given time Tehran ...