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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 in the vicinity of the sub’s last known location at 7 a.m. on Wednesday.

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 rescue ships and aircraft are converging on the island, and U.S. Navy submarine rescue units could als...

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 nukes, the tiny nation can strike back in kind. This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to...