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Imagining micronaval warfare.
Russia’s Submarine Problem Is Much Worse Than Many Imagine
It’s not just the tale of one unfortunate submarine, it’s a growing hole in capacity and capability www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
👀 Toloka - 12 meters long.
19.09.2025 14:26 — 👍 309 🔁 45 💬 26 📌 3
***New Analysis***
China’s New Giant Underwater Drone Increases Naval Mine Threat Around Taiwan
The AJX002's covert, almost deniable nature, increases the likelihood that China will use naval mines.
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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"The U.S. Navy Is Seeking a UL-AUV"
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One of the likely drivers is the need for survivable VLS platforms. An uncrewed underwater missile barge/arsenal ship that can leverage existing architecture (the Virginia Payload Module) might hold an answer.
18.06.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In a time when the Navy's extra-large (Orca) and large (Snakehead) AUV programs continue to suffer from cost overruns, technical issues, and programmatic uncertainty, and the U.S. shipbuilding and submarine workforce struggles to produce Virginia and Columbia hulls, what could be driving this?
18.06.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Office of Naval Research recently issued a BAA seeking the rapid design, build, and testing of an ultra-large autonomous underwater vehicle (UL-AUV) demonstrator, "Ocean Explorer."
www.onr.navy.mil/work-with-us...
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"PodIQ™ - An Undersea Force Model"
✅ Incorporate supplemental sensor platforms, such as seabed arrays, crewed vessels and aircraft, USVs, and encapsulated torpedoes, by specifying their quantity, passive acoustic sensor coverage area, availability rate, and unit cost.
06.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The model enables you to:
✅ Explore tradeoffs across endurance, patrol architecture, recharge cycles, and integration with supplemental systems.
✅ Gain insight into the number of vehicles required to maximize persistent ASW coverage of a given area of waterspace.
and ...
We developed a simple conceptual model, PodIQ™, to analyze how key XL-AUV performance characteristics could drive the acquisition of a persistent, credible uncrewed undersea presence.
06.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle (XL-AUV) programs proliferate, careful consideration must be given to platform performance characteristics, as these will ultimately determine how many are required to maintain a credible, persistent undersea presence. 🧵
06.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
***BREAKING***
You heard it on BlueSky first….
Candid Image Gives First Evidence Of China’s Secretive Armed Underwater Drone
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Cellula Robotics Ltd.
Anduril Industries
Kongsberg Maritime
MSubs Ltd
What this may or may not mean for the Orca program is unclear. But there are several companies that could provide a "commercially available, demonstration-ready uncrewed system ... offering a scalable and cost-effective solution for long-range, high-capacity payload deployment."
17.04.2025 19:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0BREAKING: The U.S. Navy is looking for a COTS XL-AUV capable of, among other things:
☑️ Exceptional range, capable of transits greater than 1000nm
☑️ Modular payload capacity with ability to drop various payloads to the seafloor.
The mine/torpedo/AUV convergence continues with Anduril's family of 30 knot (sprint speed), warhead-capable, stealthy toroidal propeller-driven AUVs.
07.04.2025 22:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anduril is announcing the launch of Copperhead, a high-speed, software-defined family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) built for delivery by autonomous systems 🇺🇸
#SAS2025
www.navalnews.com/event-news/s...
As human operations in the subsea domain expand in both scope and complexity, increased contact with subsea NHI is inevitable. We have developed a field brief that provides a conceptual framework for assessing and responding to subsea NHI activity.
www.strikepod.com/subsea-nhi-f...
My latest for Marine Technology Reporter, wherein I discuss containerized mine warfare systems and how minelaying operations could leverage these systems for deception in future conflicts (particularly in the Taiwan Strait).
"Unclear and Present Danger: The Future of Mine Warfare is Deception"
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23) Seawolf-class attack submarine leaving Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor - March 11, 2025 #ussjimmycarter #ssn23
SRC: YT- SkunkBayWeather
Ukrainian USV Sea Baby
***UPDATE***
#Ukraine Sea Baby maritime drone (USV) shown for first time with two Italian Manta bottom mines.
The mines were used to attack several ships in September 2023, including the Pr.1239 BORA Class missile corvette Samum
www.hisutton.com/Timeline-202...
#NavalNews #Submarines
Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Ghadir-class midget submarine during exercise "ZULFIQAR 1403", February 22, 2025.
Source: www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1403...
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**NEW ARTICLE**
“it will be a challenge for free and open navies and govs to learn the right lessons from the war in the Black Sea. But a greater danger may be that they do not allow themselves the intellectual freedom and space to learn any lessons at all”
www.britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-memora...
***BREAKING***
Here-> www.hisutton.com/North-Korea-...
North Korea revealed its first nuclear submarine
Preliminary estimates, based on the known height of the North Korean leader (5' 7"), suggest that it is around 12.5m in diameter. So around 4 times larger than the country's current largest sub
