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Proteus mini-sub
HI Sutton over at the Covert Shores blog has a really in-depth write up of the Columbia Group’s Proteus SDV mini-combat swimmer sub. Specifications: Length: 7.82m Beam: 1.61m Height: 1.62m...
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The Rising Sun leading the way
Click to bigup Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Shirane-class destroyer JS Kurama (DDH 144) leads the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS Gridley (DDG 101) and USS Stockdale (DDG 106)...
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Warship Wednesday April 1, 2015: Lucky Georgios, the last man standing
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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There goes the neighborhood
During the 1960s, the Royal Norwegian military, with the backing of some $500 million in NATO funds (about $3.5 billion in today’s cash), built a huge and very secretive (at the time) base that would...
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I-400 Hangar found, 2300-feet down
We’ve talked about the I-400 and her sister the 401, Japan’s underwater aircraft carriers in past Warship Wednesdays. These lurking submarine sneak attack leviathans could tote a few seaplanes and, it...
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Cruiser-killer HMS Urge rediscovered after 74 years overdue
When compared to the large U.S. fleet boats used in the Pacific in WWII, the Royal Navy’s 49 U-class submarines were downright tiny. At just 700-tons submerged and 191-feet oal, these boats were...
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Russian Seals at play
The Soviets have always had a penchant for oddball weapons systems. Determined to never lose the underwater battlespace for lack of heavily armed frogmen, they have some of the most neat-o waterguns....
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The secret submarine blockade-runners of the PI
When World War II came to the Philippines on Dec. 8, 1941, the U.S./Philippine forces under Gen. MacArthur (land and air) and the Navy’s Asiatic Fleet under Adm. Thomas C. Hart seemed mighty enough for...
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What a 20-pack of diesel boats look like in hard storage
Here we see at least 20 inactivated boats of the WWII-era Salmon/Sargo, Gato, and Balao classes at rest at Mare Island, California on 3 January 1946. Click to bigup USN photo # 17-46, courtesy of...
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Ingalls making progress on their new SDV
Swimmer Deliver Vehicles (SDVs) are the unsung heroes of littoral covert naval action. Its that “covert” part that keeps them that way. News of them rarely eeks out and when it does its normally bad as...
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New RN ASW chopper finally drops a torp
This a Wildcat firing a torpedo for the first time. 825 Naval Air Squadron spent two days over Falmouth Bay practicing torpedo attacks, culminating in the launch of a Sting Rant dummy weapon. The...
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Swedes stumble on a wrecked mini-sub in their waters
You may remember a few months back when the Swedish coastal artillery and naval forces went ape shit on a possible non-NATO (read= Russki) midget sub in their territorial waters– and reportedly dropped...
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USS Pennsylvania gets an escort from King Poseidon
Video shows Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) underway in the vicinity of Hawaii. Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Jason Swink | Commander Submarine Forces Pacific |...
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Inside the sneaky dope sub
The Coast Guard Cutter Stratton crew seizes cocaine bales from a self-propelled semi-submersible (SPSS, a/k/a/ sneaky dope sub, a/k/a narco nautilus) interdicted in international waters off the coast...
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So it looks like the Chinese found somebody’s sea glider.
These things are used for oceanography data collection and have even crossed the Atlantic (in 221 days, no one said they were fast!). They work by adjusting their buoyancy to create forward movement...
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Short tour inside the Soviet’s old Dr. Evil U-boat pen
Formerly known as Facility 825 GTS, the top-secret military facility was used as an underground submarine base in the Crimea near Balaclava during the Cold War. Built in the 1950s hollowed out...
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The new SubSea Craft Diver Delivery Unit (DDU)
During DSEI 2015 which took place in London from 15-18 September, UK based engineering company SubSea Craft unveiled a revolutionary new submersible called the Diver Delivery Unit (DDU). The DDU is...
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Hunley is clean again
For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations. When it was raised 15...
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Budget ASW patrol with Reaper
General Atomics has unveiled a new capability for its MQ-9B Guardian maritime UAV (a navalized 9B Reaper), presenting a sonobuoy capability along with other modifications to the Royal Navy in a bid to...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 7, 2015: Los Submarinos!
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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