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"A full-scale vessel, the Fenian Ram had many of the features we associate with modern submarines," notes the Irish American Museum. "He frightened fishermen and small boating parties on Long ...

Modern nuclear submarines are some of the most complex machines of war ever constructed. They can remain at sea for years, can submerge for extended lengths of time, and they run almost silently.

Few things bring to mind the frightful reality of the Cold War and modern naval combat more than submarines. Even with the technology we have today, it is still hard to detect and even harder to ...

Allied and adversarial navies are building air-independent submarines that can remain on submerged patrol for long periods, allowing them to complete more than 90% of modern submarine missions.

The modern submarine is capable of far more operations than its predecessors. In addition to conducting reconnaissance missions, submarines can engage land-based targets from vast distances.

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The Hangor-class submarine, which is part of the eight such submarines to Pakistan in a deal with around USD five billion, was launched in Wuhan, China's Hubei Province, official media here ...

Known as anechoic tiles, many modern classes of submarine are coated almost all over the hull by thousands of these rubber-like patches. Their purpose is twofold: first of all they dampen sounds ...

Modern submarines may be far more capable than their predecessors, but no ship can be in more than one place at one time. Quantity remains a quality all its own.