What a submarine might look like in 20 years time
A driving force will be to increase the number of weapons a future submarine can carry, as well as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs, aka UUVs or simply ‘drones’)...
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Recent Articles for Forbes
Underwater warfare and similar OSINT / defence analysis topics to a wider audience...
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Russian TYPHOON class Submarine off Norway (Unconfirmed) 
The Russian Navy replenishment oiler Akademik Pashin has arrived in the Mediterranean. She is on AIS. Frank Bottema noticed something which appears to contradict the AIS however...
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Lun Class Ekranoplan & related WIG The Pr.903 Lun Class WIG (Wings In Ground Effect vehicle) was a unique naval weapon. It was one of the most distinctive, and least understood, naval weapons in Russian Navy’s line up...
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Narco Planes 101
On July 2, law enforcement officials found a Gulfstream II business jet abandoned on a clandestine runway in Southern Mexico. Then on July 5 a BAe-125-700A business jet landed on a highway in Southern Mexico, and was set on fire. Its occupants, and the drugs it was carrying, were gone...
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New: Covert Shores merchandise
Due to popular demand, there is now a range of Covert Shores merchandise available. I'll add more as I figure out what people want and what's possible. Hopefully it will help cover the costs of running the site. ...
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Belgorod: Russia's super-submarine update On July 26, Russia's Navy Day, President Putin stated that the RuN will receive "underwater nuclear drones"...
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OSINT: Russian Navy Movements in Kola Peninsula, July 2020 A collage of Sentinel satellite (Sentinel hub) imagery of the Russian Northern Fleet in the Kola Peninsula...
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Theseus AUV 
During the Cold War, NATO believed that Russian submarines were using the ice cap in the Canadian Arctic as cover to covertly move between the Atlantic and Pacific. So the U.S. and Canada placed a special sonar network there, deep under the ice. Canadian engineers had to build the world’s largest autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), Theseus, to lay a cable where ships could not reach...
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New OSINT: Mystery Submarine In Service With Pakistan’s Navy SEALs 
An official video of the Passing Out Parade of the latest Pakistan Navy SEAL Course provides fresh OSINT on Pakistan's unreported midget submarine. ..
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