SOFREP History: USS Thresher’s Technological Marvel and Its Fatal End
The sinking of the USS Thresher remains one of the most significant submarine tragedies in US Navy history, sixty years later.
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The sinking of the USS Thresher remains one of the most significant submarine tragedies in US Navy history, sixty years later.
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Based on the current (2023) consensus, here are six of the world’s most powerful and advanced nuclear-powered submarines today.
Japan is bolstering its submarine fleet strength, introducing some of the most advanced and undetectable vessels to its flotilla to stay ahead of China.
The Russian Navy is arming its Navy to the teeth with Kalibr cruise missiles.
The Canadian military recently revealed that spy buoys were found in the Arctic Ocean in 2022, leading experts to suspect that China was behind the planting of the devices to keep tabs on US nuclear submarines, especially those with nuclear warheads.
Russia recently offered India to co-develop its non-nuclear attack submarine, Amur-1650, under the latter’s ambitious Project 75I program.
The report declared that the Northern Fleet’s naval forces are set to persist in performing regular flotilla drills while increasing the length of submarine patrols in the Barents Sea and executing submarine operations in the Atlantic.
India and France have recently joined forces to develop the ultimate submarine technology.
The Virginia-class submarines of the US Navy are arguably the most advanced fast-attack, nuclear-powered vessels of the 21st century.
Last week, the United States Navy held the keel-authentication ceremony for its future nuclear fast-attack submarine USS Arizona (SSN 803).
Attack submarines will become more effective thanks to the Razorback UUVs (unmanned underwater vehicles), which will protect the larger submarines and their missile payloads better.