by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Jun 21, 2021 | History Article
Hotel class With the successful operation of the worlds first dedicated ballistic missile submarine B67 known as project AV611 (NATO Zulu IV) in 1955 the race was on between the USA and the Soviet Union to do more.The United States started to deploy the Regulus...
by Matthew Wright | Jun 16, 2021 | History Article
by Matthew Wright There is no question that Admiral Sir John Fisher, Britain’s First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1910 and the effective head of the Admiralty, was instrumental in driving a sea-change in the nature of heavy warships. What has puzzled historians,...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Jun 6, 2021 | History Article
Commerce raiding has been employed for many centuries by various nations in the hope of denying the enemy vital supplies. During World War one and two the German U boats became arguably the most famous commerce raiders of all time, their tenacity and vigor twice...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | May 23, 2021 | History Article
Project 641B Som the Catfish With the extraordinarily successful 1950’s designed second generation conventional submarines of the project 641 Foxtrot class still in full production the hunt for a successor submarine began. Derived from the basic layout of the original...
by Matthew Wright | Apr 28, 2021 | History Article
by Matthew Wright One of the received truths of naval history is the idea that HMS Dreadnought of 1905-06 was a game-changer, the ship that divided naval construction between ‘before’ and ‘after’.[1] And in many respects, that is true. She was the first all-big-gun...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Apr 18, 2021 | History Article
In the beginning Designed in the 1970’s along side the more numerous Project 667B BD BDR BDRM NATO Delta I II III IV boats, the Project 941 Akula NATO codenamed Typhoon was a radical departure from anything that we have seen before or since. In nearly every design...
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