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Showing posts with label SSBN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSBN. Show all posts
Sunday, 24 August 2014

Yes or No, £3bn boost for Faslane nuclear submarine base

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Plans for the jobs bonanza are now fully developed , say sources, despite the threat posed to the ­Royal Navy’s future on Gare Loch.  ...
Monday, 11 August 2014

Why sea-based nuclear weapons won't stabilise the Indo-Pacific

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China, India and possibly Pakistan intend to deploy nuclear weapons at sea. Ultimately, such deployments may well have a stabilising effe...

The dangers of SSBN proliferation in Indo-Pacific Asia

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It has become commonplace to lament the arms races underway in Indo-Pacific Asia.   China's military modernisation over the last ...
Saturday, 19 October 2013

In Defense of the Nuclear Triad

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CATO Institute researchers, in a new report, conclude we can kill our nuclear bombers and land based missiles and save $20 billion a year...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

U.S. Navy Undersea Warfare Director Defends SSBN(X) Plans

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With several defense analysts calling for the U.S. Navy to abandon its efforts to develop a new design for its SSBN(X) Ohio-class submar...
Thursday, 27 June 2013

Retirement in Sight for United States' Heavy Hitters

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In a twist of bad timing, the nation’s venerable triad of nuclear-capable bombers, ballistic missile submarines and intercontinental ba...
Sunday, 19 May 2013

Capability of Russia’s Ballistic Missile Submarine Force Questioned

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The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) recently obtained information from the U.S. Navy suggesting that, though Russia is undergoi...
Saturday, 4 May 2013

Russian SSBN Fleet: Modernizing But Not Sailing Much

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The Russian ballistic missile submarine fleet is being modernized but conducting so few deterrent patrols that each submarine crew canno...
Thursday, 2 May 2013

Could New SSBN Program “Sink” U.S. Navy?

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The immense cost of the Ohio-class replacement program to build the United States’ next generation ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) t...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Chinese Boomers/Bombers A Bust

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Taiwanese intelligence officials recently revealed (while answering questions before parliament) that China’s Type 94 SSBN (ballistic mis...
Thursday, 20 December 2012

France denies nuclear sub axe plan

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Claims that the French government is planning to scrap one of its four nuclear submarines and make other swingeing cuts to its milita...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012

SSBN Verkhoturye Puts Off for Trials in White Sea

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Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center started shipyard's sea trial program of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Verkhot...
Friday, 9 November 2012

Report: Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Detected Near US

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A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine was detected within 200 miles of the East Coast last month — the first time that particu...
Friday, 2 November 2012

This Is America’s New Ballistic Missile Submarine

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The U.S. Navy’s fleet of aging Ohio-class nuclear missile submarines are finally up for replacement after more than 30 years in s...
Sunday, 28 October 2012

Russia - Borei Bombers Delayed Yet Again

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The new Russian Borei class SSBNs (ballistic missile nuclear subs or "boomers/bombers") was supposed to enter service a...
Sunday, 30 September 2012

India’s SSBN Shows Itself

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A new satellite image appears to show part of India’s new SSBN partly concealed at the Visakhapatnam naval base on the Indian eas...