Recent TV footage from North Korea’s suggests that the country’s sole Sinpo Class ballistic missile submarine (SSB) has relocated from the quayside at the factory where it was built, to an isolated peer at a submarine base. Analysis suggests that the new base is the major submarine base on the island of Mayang-do. Read More >....
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New type of Narco-sub
Just when you thought that the design of narco-subs had standardized, a new type arrives. On 20th May the Colombian and Ecuadorian forces intercepted a drug-laden narco-sub near the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific. The design is new and interesting in several ways. Read More >....
Diver Adaptable Autonomous Propulsion Vehicle
Another SDV revealed at SOFIC 2016 is Patriot 3 Maritime’s latest project, the Diver Adaptable Autonomous Propulsion Vehicle (DAAPV). Read More >....
Wreck found of submarine HMS P311 after 73 years
The wreck of wartime British submarine HMS P311 has finally been found by Italian divers near the island of Tavolora in Sardinia. She was lost with all hands between 30th December 1942 and 8th January 1943 while undertaking Operation PRINCIPLE. Read More >....
News round up- May 24
Proteus SDV shows new tail configuration The US DoD tests MANTAS armed unmanned underwater vehicles ALUSAFE 1100 Fast Interceptor demonstrated at SOFIC 2016
Russian Navy will receive more Raptors Mystery solved: Russian Navy patrol boats deploy to Syria
Chinese Reef Defense System
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Special Forces tech- RG019 underwater nail gun
The RG019 underwater nail gun was developed in the 1970s to allow Russian divers (Spetsnaz, GRU/KGB…) to fix explosives to steel, wood and concrete. Read More >....
Special Forces tech -Combat Diver Navigation Module
Developed for the US and British military diver communities, the CDNM (Combat Diver Navigation Module) is basically the Google Glasses for naval Special Forces. Read More >....
Clever design- CSS-1 collapsible SDV
The concept of folding canoes is common in military circles, but conventional thinking has it that Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs) are too large. Their bulk requires winches or cranes and dedicated trailers to transport them. The smallest SDVs, termed Diver Propulsion Vehicles (DPVs) can be carried short distances by hand but have to sacrifice the streamlined fuselage altogether, leaving the swimmer exposed to the oncoming water. This compactness comes at a price because it reduces speed and thus range. Prolific Submarine designer Carsten Standfuss, best known for the EURONAUT wreck diving submarine, came up with a clever way around this problem. What if SDVs were collapsible also? Read More >....
XPOST -Narco-Subs Cartels and Law Enforcement
[XPOST - ForeignBrief.com] 2016 looks set to be a bumper year for narco-sub incidents.
Just last month, Colombian security forces discovered a 15-metre narco-sub in the jungle near the Pacific coast. A few weeks earlier, the U.S. Coast Guard published footage of a narco-sub intercepted off the Panamanian coast with 5.5 tonnes of cocaine on board, valued at $200 million. In March, an abandoned narco-sub was found stranded on a reef off the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, its load of narcotics already unloaded by drug smugglers.
Narco-subs are purpose-built, semi-submersible drug smuggling vessels that operate illegally as ‘stateless vessels’. Most narco-subs are owned by Colombian drug cartels and operate as part of a transnational criminal network transporting cocaine from South to North America.
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Soviet submarine device washes up on Hawaiian beach
This is not the sort of thing you expect to find washed up on a beautiful tropical beach. Looking deceptively like a bomb or small unmanned aircraft, the VBAU ‘Paravan’ communication buoy was a device towed behind Soviet submarines to allow them to communicate with their base without the whole submarine coming up to periscope depth. 
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