The US Navy is moving to allow women sailors to serve aboard the service's submarines, wrote US Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a 19 February letter to Congress obtained by Jane's.rnThe service had conducted a review of its all-male crew policy and "determined it is ready to implement ...
“He’s out picking up a torpedo, they hook the diver up on the winch, and as they’re lowering him down, he sees this big mass. He goes, ‘It’s not a submarine’. He’s seen submarines before. Once you’ve seen a submarine you can’t confuse it with something else. This big...
The Navy's mission is to “maintain, train and equip combat-ready naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas," and it does so with warfare specialities that include aviation, surface warfare, nuclear submarines, special forces and support ...
Doctors no longer aboard US Navy submarines Hale concludes; ‘I’m assuming that with the Vietnam era ending as well as the Doctor Draft, fewer physicians volunteered for submarine service. Physicians still join the Submarine Service, and the Submarine Medical School h...
Pushing some 25,000 tons at full load, they could make 19 knots, which was faster than a lot of submarines looking to plug them. A decent suite of about 60 AAA guns spread across 5-inch, 40mm, and 20mm fittings could put as much flying lead in the air as a light cruiser of the ...
The US has mastered the art of stealing data from undersea cables since the 1990s. The Seawolf-class nuclear powered submarines designed in 1983 and first deployed in 1997 can intercept data in undersea cables, while according to a US media report, the USS Jimmy Carter, a typical ship of th...
His belief in her loyalty to “the fatherland” restored, he reveals that he is Shindler. The film climaxes with Helene outing Shindler to the British secret service – she was all along the key to their plot to unmask him. In the final scene, a top official in British intelligence ...
The USS Cusk was one of only four submarines to earn this ribbon. Because the missions were so classified, the crew was not informed of the award until it was discovered by accident almost forty years later. The award was for two of her most daring missions conducted in North Vietnam and...
and Australia to develop and share technology for nuclear-powered submarines. The pact has strong bipartisan backing, although some Republican critics argue the Biden administration hasn't gone far enough to implement it. “A lot of us have been pressing the administration to gear that up,...
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