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The U.S. Navy Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) is seen in an undated file photo provided by the U.S. Navy. / Credit: U.S. Navy/Thiep Van Nguyen II
2001. Greeneville in drydock at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 2001 after hitting and sinking Ehime Maru. On 9 February 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank a Japanese high-school fisheries training ship, Ehime-Maru, killing nine of the thirty-five people aboard, including four students, 10 miles (16 km) off ...
June 18, 2024 at 1:42 AM. By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee. TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's defence minister said on Tuesday that they have a "grasp" of the situation after pictures appeared online of a ...
2003 – explosion on board an overcrowded Ming-class diesel -powered submarine, Navy Submarine No. 361, killed 70. [1] [2] "The most startling thing about this episode is that [the government] issued a public report," noted Evan S. Medeiros, then a China specialist at the RAND Corporation. [1] The capacity of the submarine was for 57 men ...
The Hai Kun-class submarine ( Chinese: 海鯤級潛艦, translation "Narwhal" [ 5] ), alternatively known as the Indigenous Defense Submarine (IDS) program, is a class of attack submarines built by CSBC Corporation, Taiwan for the Republic of China Navy. [ 6] While the Hai Kun class is thought to be based on the Dutch Zwaardvis class, which is ...
China's military said it had recently held intensive anti-submarine exercises in the strategically important South China Sea as part of efforts to hone its capabilities amid rising maritime ...
Longpo Naval Base ( Chinese: 龍坡海軍基地) is a naval base for nuclear submarines along the southern coast of Hainan Island, China. [ 2][ 3][ 4] This underground base has been reported by several intelligence agencies, especially Indian agencies. [citation needed] The images collected by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) in ...
Taiwan scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over Chinese military exercises being conducted around the self-governing island democracy where a new president took ...