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Navy Nuclear Submarine Hit Into A 'Seamount' at 30 Miles Per Hour
Pacific’s complex undersea terrain presents unique navigational challenges for U.S. Navy submarines, as demonstrated by the ...
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BOOM: How a Russian Titanium Submarine Slammed Into a Navy Sub (It Was Later Retired)
In 1992, just months after the Soviet Union collapsed, a collision between the USS Baton Rouge and a Russian Sierra-class ...
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Russia Won't Stop Lying About Shooting Down F-16 Fighters
Recent misinformation claims by the Kremlin suggest Russian forces have destroyed American-made F-16s supplied to Ukraine.
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China’s Freaked Out Because America is Keeping the Typhon Missile System in the Philippines
China is having a fit because the U.S. military has stationed its mid-range Typhon missile system in the Philippines ...
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The U.S. Navy 'Scrapped' A Nuclear Attack Submarine After 'Hitting' A Russian Sub
In February 1992, just months after the Cold War ended, the U.S. Navy’s USS Baton Rouge, a Los Angeles-class submarine, ...
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Russia 'Dumped' An Old Nuclear Submarine Into the Ocean and It Could Leak Radiation
The Soviet K-27 submarine, launched in 1958, was an ambitious but flawed experiment with lead-bismuth-cooled reactors. On May ...
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A Russian Nuclear Submarine 'Became Instantly Flooded' and Sank
The Soviet K-429, a nuclear-powered submarine, is infamous for sinking not once, but twice. In 1983, while still undergoing ...
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The Risk of an Accidental Nuclear Exchange is Growing
As the conflict in Ukraine escalates, the potential for miscommunication or technological failure highlights the urgent need ...
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Why A U.S. Nuclear Attack Submarine Slammed Into an Oil Tanker
In November 2002, the Norwegian tanker Norman Lady collided with an unidentified object in the Mediterranean, later ...
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Russia Is Freaked: Ukraine's Drone Strikes Destroy 30,000 Tons of Ammo
Ukrainian suicide drones have destroyed multiple Russian ammunition depots, including a massive strike on September 18 that ...
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'Navigational Error' Caused a Nuclear Submarine To Hit an Undersea Mountain
In 2007, the British Royal Navy’s HMS Superb, a Swiftsure-class nuclear-powered submarine, collided with an undersea mountain ...
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Diesel Submarine Threat: When U.S. Aircraft Carriers Were Sunk in War Games
Naval exercises are vital for training and uncovering vulnerabilities, as demonstrated in multiple war games where ...