200th 'Narco Submarine' 
On December 9 the Coast Guard Cutter Active (WMEC 618) interdicted a low-profile vessel (LPV) in the Eastern Pacific.
It is the 200th incident in my Covert Shores Narco Submarines database...
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Iranian Navy's largest Ship, I.R.I.N.S Makran, Observed On Sea Trials
The Iranian Navy is joining the IRGC in converting large merchant ships to function as Forward Base Ships.
From at least December 9-14 the I.R.I.N.S. Makran (441) was on sea trials in the general vicinity of the Straits of Hormuz..
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Images Show Design For Indian Navy Indigenous Coastal Submarine 
A short video shared on Twitter appears to show a new indigenous submarine design for the Indian Navy...
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Cutaway of Narco VSV interdicted by US Navy LCS 
The USS Gabrielle Giffords, an Independence-class littoral combat ship (LCS) interdicted a narco-submarine in the Pacific Ocean on December 5.
The cutaway shows the internal arrangement of this specific type of narco-VSV....
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Chinese-Navy-Type-093-Shang-Class-Submarine
Updated. Originally posted June 21 2020
Chinese Type-093 (Type-09III) Class Submarine
The Type-09III is China's main nuclear-powered attack submarine. There has been a lot of speculation and guesswork as analysts have attempted to make sense of each updated version....
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Fresh images of Chinese Navy (PLAN) Type-003 Aircraft Carrier
The new aircraft carrier is expected to be much more capable than the current two ships...
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Chinese Navy Visited Key Indian Ocean Base As U.S. Navy Talks of Re-forming 1st Fleet
On November 17 U.S. Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite called for the Navy to establish a fleet covering the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.
The same day, a Chinese warship was calling at Djibouti...
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Russian SIERRA Class Titanium-hulled attack sub
SIERRA-I Class Submarine
UPDATED
It takes a certain confidence to name a submarine after the Barracuda. It has to be fast and it has to have a bite. Built towards the end of the Cold War when the Soviets had finally started producing truly quiet submarines, the Project 945 SIERRA-I Class were amongst the most potent in the modern Russian fleet.
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New OSINT: Iran Launches Another Forward Base Ship, I.R.I.N.S Makran
Less than two weeks after the IRGC-N revealed their first overt Forward Base ship Shahid Roudaki (the Saviz is undeclared), the Iranian Navy appears to be in the process of launching its own.
And it is much larger than the IRGC ship.
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New Merchandize: Discrete Covert Shores T-Shirt
By request, I have added a low-key T-Shirt to the range. It features the new Covert Shores submarine logo (designed by d-atis (Twitter)), and is available in several colors.
Other T-shirts include the classic Typhoon, and new Narco-Submarine ones.