A Royal navy nuclear sub sinking towards its crush depth was saved moments from disaster. A depth gauge failed on the decades-old Vanguard class vessel, carrying 140 crew and Trident 2 doomsday missiles in the Atlantic. Such a catastrophe would also have triggered a nightmare salvage mission to recover theContinue Reading
The murky world of covert submarine operations has again been highlighted with unsubstantiated reports of 55 deaths of a Chinese crew. But not all may be as it seems. Rumours began circulating on August 21 after anti-Chinese Communist Party activist social media account “Lude Media” posted a claim that ChairmanContinue Reading
There are 55 Chinese sailors feared dead after their nuclear submarine reportedly got stuck underwater. A report by UK intelligence experts said the sub hit a “chain and anchor” trap intended to snare Western vessels lurking off China’s Shandong province. The crew reportedly suffocated after a “catastrophic failure” of theContinue Reading
A $7.6 billion contract has been awarded to British military manufacturers to design and develop a new nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine as part of the AUKUS (Australia-United Kingdom-United States) pact with Australia. The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has signed a deal for a detailed design study to examine the potentialContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern sea, South Korea’s military said on Tuesday, adding to a recent streak in weapons testing that is apparently in protest of the US sending major naval assets to South Korea in a show of force. In its third roundContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile into its eastern sea, South Korea’s military said Tuesday, adding to a recent streak in weapons testing that is apparently in protest of the US sending major naval assets to South Korea in a show of force. South Korea’s Joint ChiefsContinue Reading
A Russian fleet of trawlers is mapping vulnerable European underwater infrastructure. Several of its submarines have been observed acting “strangely” in the same waters. And hackers have intensified their probes of European electricity and water grid firewalls. This has the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland ringing alarm bells.Continue Reading
The pharmaceutical firm behind a major Covid jab has claimed it has the ability to manufacture vaccines for cancer, heart conditions and auto-immune diseases by the end of the decade. Paul Burton, chief medical officer of Moderna, said on Saturday he believed the firm could offer vaccines for “all sortsContinue Reading
China will be briefed on Australia’s multibillion-dollar plan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines despite accusing the AUKUS partners of going down a “path of error and danger”. In recent days, more than 60 nations have taken up a briefing by the federal government as ministers and bureaucrats seek to allay nuclearContinue Reading
The US navy this week released a photo of its Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee, surfaced, alongside a similar British Vanguard-class submarine somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. That’s odd. What makes it even more unusual is that it is the fourth display of its super-secretive doomsday weapons since October.Continue Reading