Covert Shores guide to underwater weapons
General guide to many types of underwater firearms, spear-guns, rocket-guns and similar weapons used by combat swimmers in a military/naval context, in history and contemporary.
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Saviz
Updated. Originally posted 3rd August 2018
Iranian Covert Operations ship Saviz still monitoring Red Sea
Saviz is an Iranian flagged general cargo vessel used as an offshore surveillance, command & liaison base by Iranian forces operating in the Red Sea. Analysis suggests that it is primarily deployed in support of Houthi Rebels fighting in the civil war in Yemen. As of today, she is still deployed in a position monitoring traffic in the Red Sea, visible on AIS (Automated Identification System - transmissions used to avoid collisions) since she was revealed in August last year...
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OSCAR-II_SSGN
OSCAR-II Class SSGN
The Russian Navy is modernizing two of its Project 949A OSCAR-II Class cruise missile submarines (SSGNs) to carry the latest generation of missiles... Read More >....
BOREI-II_update
OSINT: new BOREI-II class SSBN is lengthened
fresh commercial satellite imagery available on Google Earth’s history layers shows that the latest boat is also longer than the baseline version... Read More >....
Otranto_unmanned-drug-vessel
First narco-USV
A unique craft was recently intercepted that may drastically change the threat profile in the Adriatic and potentially foretell of similar developments elsewhere: a sea-going unmanned surface vessel (USV) for smuggling drugs....
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JMSDF_Future_Submarine
Updated. Originally posted 18th June 2019
29SS: Japan's Future Submarine
Japanese submarine builder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries showed off their next generation submarine design.... Read More >....
Russian_Navy_Submarine_Outlook_2019-2040
Russian Submarine outlook (Part 1: SSBN/SSDN) Russia's submarine fleet is fighting back from a construction and readiness low-point following the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent economic woes.... Read More >....
Narco_2019-05
Updated: Originally posted 13th May 2019
Narcosub update
A Low Profile vessel (LPV) has been found on a beach on Costa Rica's Pacific coast...
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Cuban_Navy_SDV
Cuba's swimmer delivery vehicle A new image has emerged which sheds light on the generally unknown Cuban Navy swimmer delivery vehicle (SDV)... Read More >....
Russia_Navy_Beluga_Whale_update
New OSINT: Russian Navy Beluga whale program moves in to GUGI submarine base In late April fishermen in Finnmark in northern Norway found a Beluga whale wearing a tight harness for external equipment. There is strong evidence that it relates to the previously little-reported Russian Navy Northern Fleet marine mammal program. New satellite images shed new light... 
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