submarines
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DARPA’s New Autonomous Submarine-Hunter Could Change Naval Combat Forever
In 2010, DARPA announced it was creating an autonomous, submarine-hunting war machine that would be manned with exactly zero people. Now, that vehicle is ready for action.
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Boeing Patented A Drone That Turns Into A Submarine — Just Like In Movies
The idea to build a plane that turns into a submarine is not new. However, the mission to build an unmanned variation of such a vehicle is rather 21st-century. Boeing actually already has a design ready.
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The Giant Tubes That Launch Missiles In Strategic Nuclear Submarines
Impressive photo of the giant tubes that house four of the 24 Trident II D5 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM) carried by Ohio-class nuclear submarines. 14 of these submarines travel for months underwater, carrying fifty per cent of all the active thermonuclear warheads in the US arsenal.
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North Korea’s Brand New Ballistic Sub Discontinued By Soviets In 1990
Looks like North Korea’s engineers have been hard at work brushing up on their obsolete Soviet-era technology. Because after acquiring 10 discontinued Soviet subs, everyone’s favourite little warmongering-dictatorship-that-could has finally rendered the outdated ballistic vessels seaworthy — and it only took them 21 years.