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New Croatian midget sub - Drakon 220
Croatia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) has a track record of impressive midget submarines. The industry has struggled since independence with the Croatian Navy retiring its submarine capability. A new improved version of the R-3E design (better known as the Una Class) is now ready for construction however Read More >....
N Korean ballistic missile sub capability
Eight months after we first identified it moored outside a secret submarine yard on North Korea's eastern coast near the town of Sinpo, it is time to take stock of the regimes latest submarine development. Read More >....
Crocodile 250 midget submarine
continuing the lineage of the famous Cos.Mo.S SX and MG series midget submarines, the Crocodile 250 Class is Chile's answer to resurgent interest in midget submarines for Special Forces and Littoral combat. Read More >....
Chinese Naval Special Forces projects and capabilities
Survey of Chinese midget submarines, Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs) and Diver Propulsion Vehicles (DPVs). Read More >....
SDV history - finding a missing link
I recently had the good fortune to be allowed to view an archive of Swimmer Delivery Vehicles documents. It is held by the Historical Diving Society (Check them out! HDS website ) and covered several Cold War SDVs developed for the Special Boat Service (SBS) and Royal Navy Clearance Divers. Among the materiel were photocopies of old magazine articles collected by one of the leading engineers in the field, K.R. Tuson. I came face to face with an evolutionary missing link in the development of SDVs on both sides of the Atlantic. Read More >....
EMT Barracuda SDV
Revealed: FWS-1 to FWS-5 SDVs Read More >....
Covert Shores Book - progress update
The book is on time, currently undergoing final editing and proofing. I have yet to receive security Disclosure confirmation from the UK Gov but I am not expecting any surprises there. Read More >....
x-post - the-plucky-perch-hardy-frogman-steed
I came across this fantastic article n USS Perch, one of the first dedicated transport submarines for US Navy's elite UDT and SEALs Read More >....
Iconic Cold War artwork of Edward L Cooper
I miss the fantastic artworks which accompanied DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) reports on Soviet developments in the 1980s. Artists such as Edward L. Cooper and Brian W. McMullin really brought the new equipment to life ... Read More >....
