Neither vessel was reportedly damaged in the incident, which took place in the South China Sea near Subic Bay in the Philippines. The collision was merely the latest in a series of naval incidents between China and the United States, and it may be considered a harbinger of increased naval -...
Roy Vincent Trinidad, spokesman for the navy in the South China Sea, said the incident is "not alarming." "But we were surprised because this is a very unique submarine," he told AFP. The 74-metre (243-foot) long vessel is armed with a missile system that has a range of 12,000 ki...
Washington should elaborate further on a submarine incident in the South China Sea in order to fully respond to the concerns and misgivings of countries in the region, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday, urging the United States to stop undermining the sovereignty and security o...
Navy officials recently briefed congressional staff on the incident that took place during the weekend of Oct. 24—days before the Navy warship USS Lassens sailed within 12 miles of disputed Chinese islands in the South China Sea, triggering vocal criticism from Beijing. The Obama administration has...
Navy officials recently briefed congressional staff on the incident that took place during the weekend of Oct. 24—days before the Navy warship USS Lassens sailed within 12 miles of disputed Chinese islands in the South China Sea, triggering vocal criticism from Beijing. ...
The USS Barb was the Navy’s most successful submarine in WW II. Operating mainly in the South China Sea, the Formosa Strait and the forever mysterious Sea of Okhotsk, the Barb sank at least 29 Japanese ships and climaxed its final patrol with an audacious commando raid on land during whi...
nuclear submarines and other advanced weapon platforms to show off their force and make waves in the South China Sea, which has seriously threatened regional national security and exacerbated regional tensions, which is also the root cause and harm of this incident. At the same time, we believe...
The submarine involved in October's incident was likely an Improved Kilo class submarine. Also known as Project 636, the Improved Kilo was one of ten purchased from Russia in 1994. Most, if not all of China's Improved Kilo submarines are based in Xiangshan, with China's Eastern F...
byThe Wall Street Journal. Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy submariner and an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, first noticed the incident involving the submarine in July, though it wasn't publicly known at the time that it involved the new Zhou-class vessel.Satellite ...
The U-1206 departed Kiel on 28 March 1945 on a two-day training patrol in the North Sea. It returned to port at Horten Naval Base on the 30th. Second Patrol of the U-1206 The second training patrol was shorter, just one day. It left Horten on 2 April 1945 and put in at Kristians...