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Who gets an honorable mention? Here's What You Need to Remember: However, every country in the world that pretends to serious maritime power is building or acquiring advanced submarines. The next submarine war will look very different from the last, and it’s difficult to predict how it will play out. There have been three great submarine campaigns in history, and one prolonged duel. The First and Second Battles of the Atlantic pitted German U-boats against the escorts and aircraft of the United Kingdom and the United States. The Germans very nearly won World War I with the first campaign, ...

How To Nearly Sink a $2.9 Billion Dollar Submarine: Leave a Hatch Open. As mishaps go the Arihant may have been among the more embarrassing but at least it didn’t result in the loss of life.  Here’s What You Need to Remember: Since their inception submarines have been called a “steel tomb” due to the inherent dangers involved in their routine operations. It almost seems unnatural to design a boat that would travel under the water’s surface, and that is why it took a brave type of sailor to volunteer for such duty. During the American Civil War, the CSS Hunley became the first “s...

Heralds of Destruction: Five Killer Submarines of the Cold War The United States and the Soviet Union were the main players in the Cold War submarine campaign, but were hardly the only entrants. Here's What You Need To Remember: Large, fast, and quiet, the Permit class set that standard for American and British submarines for the rest of the Cold War. Developed with a series of innovations that set them apart from their predecessors, the Skipjack class, the Permits immediately became state of the undersea art. These innovations included powerful bow sonar, a streamlined, deep-dive capable h...

DIVE! The Five Best Submarines to Ever Hit the Seas Many of the technologies and practices of advanced submarine warfare were never employed in anger. However, every country in the world that pretends to serious maritime power is building or acquiring advanced submarines. Here's What You Need to Remember: We take for granted the most common form of today’s nuclear deterrent; a nuclear submarine, bristling with missiles, capable of destroying a dozen cities a continent away. These submarines provide the most secure leg of the deterrent triad, as no foe could reasonably expect to destroy the ...

The Iranian military has long planned for a defensive naval war in the Persian Gulf.