The Submarine Review

SOVIET SUBMARINES – Design. Development and Tactics by Jan Breemer, Ph.D. Jane’s Defense Data; released February 27, 1989 ISBN# 07106-0526-9 The Soviet submarine force is…

The Washington Post of 29 December, 1989, reported that the President had “extended the territorial waters of the United States from three to twelve miles…

SUBMARINERS AT PG SCHOOL. MONTEREY As a professor here, teaching our Maritime and Soviet Naval Strategy, I have quite a quota of submariners which, I…

Tom Clancy writes captivating fiction. Ever since Hunt for Red Oclober first appeared on the nation’s bookshelves in 1984, millions of readers have devoured his…

Immediately after World War II, despite advice from the British Admiralty that we were wasting our time to develop a snorkel for two-cycle diesel engines,…

0n the first patrol of the USS S-31 off the Paramishiro Islands in the North Pacific. a large ship appeared out of the ever present…

Whilst forty years ago the torpedo was solely an anti surface ship weapon, over the years it has increasingly assumed a primarily anti-submarine role. The…

There seems to be some discomfort in accepting the increasing importance of submarines in future sea wars, and their ability to cany out their assigned…

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is probably the most complex form of maritime conflict. The search for solutions of the “submarine menace” tends to be focussed on…

Submarines are unique as military machines in their degree of stealth. In all forms of conflict at sea, invisibility and the unpredictable nature of the…