MoD to take full control of nuclear submarine steel firm amid concerns it could go bust By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:21 BST, 7 July 2021 | Updated: 22:21 BST, 7 July 2021 A steel company that makes parts for the UK’s nuclear submarine programme is close to being nationalised amid concerns … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has put on a show of force with the largest naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean since the end of the Cold War ahead of a meeting with the US President next week. At least 20 ships, submarines, and support vessels, flanked by 20 fighter jets, took part in the large-scale … Read more
BAE Systems says building of four Dreadnought submarines is supporting almost 30,000 British jobs By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 28 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 28 March 2021 The building of four Dreadnought submarines is supporting almost 30,000 British jobs, BAE Systems revealed yesterday. The programme to create the … Read more
Sir Paul McCartney announces picture book sequel inspired by The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine and introduces new character Nandude Yellow Submarine was first released by the Beatles on their 1966 album Revolver and as a double a-side with Eleanor Rigby In 1968 an animated film titled The Beatles: Yellow Submarine, was released In 2019, Sir Paul … Read more
A Royal Navy warship has monitored a Russian attack submarine as the vessel travelled through British waters. Portsmouth-based patrol ship HMS Mersey tracked the surfaced submarine, RFS Rostov Na Donu, as it moved through the North Sea and the English Channel. The Kilo-class diesel powered attack submarine was moving through on its journey from the Baltic … Read more
She stalked Nato ships during the Cold War, lurking in the depths of the ocean on long-range patrols. And these photographs show just what a grim job it would have been for those on board. They show the poky interior of a Foxtrot-class Soviet submarine called B-143, operational from 1960 to 1991 and which would … Read more
A Japanese submarine crashed into a Chinese tanker while it was surfacing after the crew failed to spot the giant ship through their periscope, officials have said. The crew of the Japanese navy’s 275-foot vessel then had to report the incident by mobile phone because the submarine’s radio was destroyed in the crash. Three of … Read more
The United States announced the arrival of the nuclear-powered submarine USS Georgia in the Persian Gulf on Monday, a notable development in a region where tension is on the rise. None of these types of submarines, which are equipped with Tomahawk missiles, has traveled to the Persian Gulf in eight years, making it a significant … Read more
‘Entire crew’ of nuke-carrying Trident submarine based in Scotland ‘is replaced after Royal Navy officer tested positive for Covid-19’ Almost 170 Royal Navy sailors serving aboard HMS Vengeance were taken off The crew had been living in strict isolation and had food delivered to their rooms Sources have pointed finger at inspectors who came aboard … Read more
If you want to find out what lies beneath there can be few better ways of doing it than jumping inside this amazing new $5.5million (£4.1million) submersible. It has just been delivered by marine engineering firm Triton Submarines, which it describes as ‘a salon under the sea’. It features the world’s largest transparent, spherical passenger … Read more