Japanese midget submarine attack on Pearl Harbor
The popular account of Pearl Harbor records that the attack started at 0748hrs local time on 7th December 1941 when hundreds of Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) aircraft appeared over the anchorage and started their attacks. This simplistic version of events suffices for school textbooks and Hollywood movies but the military engagements actually started nearly five hours earlier at 0357hrs. And these first encounters were not against aircraft, but a midget submarine! Read More >....
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Future Submarine Concept
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Kerch Strait crisis: Naval Capabilities in Sea of Azov
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Updated: originally posted 22nd June 2018.
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Planned Special Forces attack on New York, 1943
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Updated. Originally posted 31st Oct 2018
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Vanquisher of enemies - INS Arihant
Updated. Originally posted 21st September 2014
Despite years of development and press attention, India's first ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) the INS Arihant is still something of a mystery. As more information comes out we can have a go at working out exactly what she looks like, and what the implications are on her internal layout and capabilities. 