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Which is better ! American, British and French Submarine Technology (Credits- HUF Hack)

WHY DID THE NAVY SEND ITS ONLY THREE SEAWOLF SUBMARINES TO THE PACIFIC? WARTHOG DEFENSE

This Is How the U.S. Navy's Submarine Force Dominates the World's Oceans ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

Virginia Class USS North Dakota SSN ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar Though Russia continues to develop and build newer and ever more capable nuclear attack submarines such as the Project 885M Yasen-class, the U.S. Navy continues to maintain its technological edge by incrementally improving its Virginia-class attack boats. “I think we have a very focused program called the acoustic superiority program to make sure that we in fact keep our technological lead—our acoustical advantage—and that's a focus of every one of our developmental programs,” Capt. Mike Stevens, Naval Sea Systems Command’s Virginia-class program manager told me at the Navy League’s Sea, Air and Space symposium on May 17. “It doesn't do any good to build submarines that aren’t up to par, so it’s a main part of our focus to make sure those submarine do maintain their acoustical advantage—not just today but 10, 20 years

Get Ready, China: Tech Breakthrough Could Turn U.S. Subs into Carriers ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Harry J. Kazianis)

USS John Warner , Virginia class SSN ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Harry J. Kazianis The mighty American nuclear-powered attack submarine: they were, at least until very recently, supposed to be the secret sauce, the big stick that America and its allies would use against China or Russia if things got ugly—and for good reason. With both nations along with Iran and others developing anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities that make it tough for traditional power projection tools like aircraft carriers to patrol critical waterways in a crisis, stealthy American submarines seemed the best way to ensure tactical and strategic advantage—waging war below the waves of deadly A2/AD battle-networks. U.S. attack subs were even at one point the main ingredient for America’s main effort to turn A2/AD on its head, the always controversial and misunderstood Air-Sea Battle Concept. But as all things, advantages th

Undersea Crisis: China Will Have Nearly Twice as Many Subs as the U.S. ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

USS Annapolis ( Credits- Wikimedia Commons/ United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar The United States Navy needs more attack submarines to meet its global commitments. Worldwide, the service is only able to provide the Pentagon’s regional combatant commanders with less than two-thirds the number of submarines that they need. “The threats in the undersea environment continue to go up,” Vice Adm. Joseph Mulloy, the service’s deputy chief of naval operations for integration of capabilities and resources told the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower and projection forces subcommittee on February 25. The U.S. Navy—which has roughly 52 attack submarines—is on track to have 41 attack boats by 2029. The Chinese, meanwhile would have “at least 70, and they’re building,” Mulloy said. “You get back into the whole quality versus quantity issue, but at the same time the Russians are also building. . . and they build much higher-end submari

Revealed: Russian-Built Kilo Submarine 'Kills' American Nuclear Sub ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

INS Sindhughosh underway ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar The Indian media is claiming that one of New Delhi’s Russian-built Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarines managed to “sink” a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy Los Angeles-class attack submarine during exercises in October. The Indian submarine INS Sindhudhvaj (S56) allegedly “killed” USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) during an exercise called Malabar that is held annually between India, Japan and the United States. According to the Indians, the submarines were assigned to track each other down in the Bay of Bengal. “The way it happens is that the Sindhudhvaj recorded the Hydrophonic Effect (HE) - simply put, underwater noise - of the nuclear powered submarine and managed to positively identify it before locking on to it. Being an exercise what did not happen was the firing,” an Indian naval officer told India Today. The Indian vessel

The U.S. Navy Packs More Firepower into Shrinking Submarine Force ( Source- The National Interest / Author- David Axe)

USS Virginia SSN-774 ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- David Axe The U.S. Navy’s latest shipbuilding plan underscores what service leaders and lawmakers have long known — the Navy is going to have too few attack submarines. To compensate, the sailing branch wants to pack more firepower into the subs it will have. The Navy’s goal is to maintain at least 48 attack subs as part of a roughly 300-ship fleet. But the 2016 edition of the Navy’s shipbuilding plan, published in April, shows the total number of Los Angeles-, Seawolf– and Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack subs declining from 54 in 2015 to a low of 41 in 2029. “The decline is the result of the retirement … of Los Angeles-class attack submarines,” Eric Labs, an analyst with the official Congressional Budget Office, wrote in an October report. “Those ships are reaching the end of their 33-year service life, having generally been built at a rate of