Kalvari Class Submarine: The Scorpène's New Sting
The latest attack submarines to join the Indian Navy, the six Kalvari Class boats were ordered under the P-75 program. A derivative of the French Scorpène Class. they will soon differ in one significant way: they will be upgraded with Air Independent Power (AIP).
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Chinese-Sea-Hunter-USV-Update
Lonely Child: China's Sea Hunter USV Copy Going Nowhere?
This unidentified vessel is believed to be a mid-size USV (Uncrewed Surface Vessel). It closely resembles the U.S. Navy's Sea Hunter USV.
Recent satellite imagery appears to show the vessel still at the site where it was built. This implies that it has not been trialed by the Chinese Navy.
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IRGC-Saviz-Update
Attack On Iranian Forward Base Ship In Red Sea: What You Need To Know About Saviz
Rumors and reports are circulating that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) forward base ship, Saviz, has been attacked in the Red Sea. She may be involved in intelligence gathering, supporting Iranian forces supplying oil to Syria and general support of Houthi forces in Yemen.
This article provides a quick summation of information on the ship.
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Alert: New Intelligence Shows North Korea Built Another Warship
North Korea continues to build Surface-Effect-Ships (SES) for its navy despite the generally slow pace of surface ship construction. An unfinished SES has been moved to the outside of the 'new' construction hall at Nampo.
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New OSINT Shows Changes At Whisun Reef
The latest tide of OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) from the South China Sea shows that most of China’s fishing vessels have vacated Whitsun Reef. The presence of over two hundred fishing vessels had caused considerable concern in the region.
But caution is needed in drawing a strong conclusion at this stage.
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A Comment On The Fake Type-100 'Sun Tzu' Class submarine
This ginormous 210m (690ft) long multi-hull submarine was created for an April Fools' piece I penned for Naval News. In the tradition of these pranks it is not real, and was not meant to genuinely deceive. I am putting this article up so that, in future, if people find misinformation about this submarine they can easily get to the truth.
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OSINT: China Censors Numbers On Navy Plane
Chinese media post some excellent photographs of Chinese Navy (PLAN) equipment. But one photo shoot of Y-8Q maritime patrol aircraft (MPAs) was digitally altered to hide the number. An eagle-eyed OSINT analyst spotted it.
This is only tangential to my normal focus but I thought it is interesting so hope you agree that it is worth sharing.
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China Launches A New Long-Range Anti-Submarine Detection Ship
There are a few capabilities which only a handful of navies have. Extremely long-range anti-submarine detection ships is one of them.
China has launched another Type-927 sound detection ship, the Chinese Navy (PLAN) equivalent to the US Navy's SURTASS ships.
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Russian Navy Spy Submarine Belgorod: evolution of OSINT
Information is very limited about the Russian Navy's largest new submarine, the Project 09852 K-329 Belgorod ("Белгород"). Although analysts had been following her conversion to a special mission host submarine for GUGI (Russia's ambiguously named main directorate of undersea research) since around 2010, it only came to the fore in November 2019.
Here is how the picture evolved...
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updated with fresh intelligence
Spy Sub Among Russian Navy Submarines Which Surfaced In Artic
The Russian Navy's ICEEX, ' Umka-21 ', is taking place in the Arctic. As part of the exercises, three nuclear submarines surfaced within 300m of each other. They surfaced in pre-marked locations. They were widely reported (including here!) as ballistic missile subs (SSBNs); the two DELTA-IVs and a single Borei-II (K-549 Knyaz Vladimir) were within 300m.
Actually one of the DELTAs was BS-64 Podmoskovye, a "special mission" submarine (read: spy sub).
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