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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 ...
List of sunken nuclear submarines. Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three submarines were lost with all hands – the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian ...
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
The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8II interceptor on April 1, 2001. The EP-3 was flying over the South China ...
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 ...
Shenyang. Retired in 2010. 4500+. Air superiority fighter. J-6A – Single seat fighter. J-6B – Upgraded J-6A with two air-to-air missiles and removed the cannon. J-6C – Day fighter version with three 30mm cannon, braking parachute and domestic built engine.
A submarine arms race is intensifying as China embarks on production of a new generation of nuclear-armed submarines that for the first time are expected to pose a challenge to growing U.S. and ...
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 ...