The Kaiten was one of the special attack craft developed in Japan in the later years of WW2. A Kamikaze weapon, it was designed to take its pilot on a one-way trip. It was effectively an enlarged ...

December 23, 2024: The U.S. Navy is having problems deciding what types of weapons their Virginia class SSN attack submarines should carry. The most favored weapons are launched from torpedo tubes. It ...

As deadly as these submarines are, bristling with torpedoes, mines and guided missiles, and powered by nuclear power plants, they actually haven't encountered combat in the same way older ...

MURMANSK, March 10. /TASS/. The Russian Northern Fleet’s submarines Yuri Dolgoruky and Obninsk held an exercise to fire torpedoes against an underwater target, the fleet’s press office ...

NEWPORT, May 22. -- To-day the Lake was kept busy completing its manoeuvring tests, firing torpedoes, and in the afternoon undergoing its sea run. In the torpedo-firing tests the Lake made its ...

Dramatic new images have revealed the extent of damage to HMS Royal Oak after it was sunk by torpedoes. The ship was attacked by a German submarine in Orkney's Scapa Flow in 1939, killing 835 crew ...

TASS/. A division of special-purpose submarines armed with Poseidon nuclear-capable torpedoes is due to come into operation in the Russian Pacific Fleet by early 2025, a source close to the ...

The agreement is about the Electronic Heavy Weight Torpedo or EHWT. According to the Ministry of Defence, the deal for the integration of EHWT onboard the Kalvari-class submarines will be a joint ...

The intelligence service of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) "lost" the Russian nuclear submarine K-329 Bilhorod, which left the deployment port the day before. NATO fears that the boat went out to ...