Will Hunter-Killer Underwater Drones Be the End of Submarines?
If operationalized, drone swarms are too numerous and cheap to be efficiently destroyed using most current military systems.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Swarms of cheap drones both above and below the water (unmanned underwater vehicles, or UUVs) may pose the biggest and most proximate threat to submarines.
After a post-Cold War hiatus, navies across the planet are pursuing new anti-submarine capabilities as a submarine arms race accelerates in the Pacific Ocean. Developing technologies like quantum magnetometers and satellite-based optical sensors are leading to forecasts that submarines may be on the verge of losing their stealthy edge by the mid-twenty-first century.
China s Ballistic Missiles Are Meant to Make the Pacific an Impregnable Fortress
Although China’s intercontinental strike ability is somewhat limited when compared to heavyweights like the United States or Russia, Beijing’s capabilities are growing. What China lacks in international reach is made up for big-time in regional capabilities.
Here s What You Need To Remember: One variant, the DF-21D has been called the carrier-killer because of its relatively high accuracy of 20 CEP, maneuverability, and range of about 930 miles.
China’s missile arsenal can threaten regional adversaries like Taiwan and Japan, or global competitors like the United States on their own territory.
Seoul s K2 Black Panther Tank Is Ready to Defend the Peninsula, Swamps and All
Its suspension and water crossing ability is optimal for Korea’s hilly and swampy conditions and combined with top-attack munitions, the K2 would be a hard nut to crack.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The K2 has an incredible water-fording capability designed to handle some of the Korean Peninsula’s wet and swampy terrain. By extending an onboard extendable conning tower/snorkel, the K2 can ford water that is 4.1 meters deep, or just over 13 feet.
According to the Guinness World Records organization, the indigenously-developed K2 Black Panther tank is the most expensive tank in the world at $8.5 million dollars. This is for a good reason though: the K2 has a number of features that make it incredibly capable and quite deadly on the battlefield.
But what good is capturing an oil field when you wreck your country in the process?
Here s What You Need To Remember: For the American leaders, and plenty of others throughout history, the price of oil indeed proved to be higher than any could imagine.
For the last hundred years, oil has been a frequent reason for war. Nations have fought wars, or shaped their military strategy during a war, to conquer oil fields or prevent rivals from controlling the commodity that is the lifeblood of industrial economies and modern militaries.
But what good is capturing an oil field when you wreck your country in the process? Several nations have learned the hard way that the price for capturing oil can be much greater than its value.
Meet the black holes of the South China Sea.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The latest Kilo variants are among the quietest submarines in the Chinese and Russian navies.
These Soviet-designed submarines are the backbone of China’s non-nuclear submarine fleet and are very hard to detect. Here’s how they may give China an edge in the South China Sea.
Soviet Union Surplus
The Kilo-class was originally a Soviet-designed boat that entered service in 1980. They are relatively small diesel-electric attack submarines intended for both anti-surface warfare and anti-submarine warfare. What makes them special is that they have reduced acoustic signatures that are hard to track, known colloquially as “black holes.”