The Submarine Review

SUB COMMANDER by Richard G. Sheffield, Computer Publications ABC: Greensboro, NC 165 pp. The primary purpose of Sheffield’s book is to teach his readers tactics…

The Southeast Georgian, 8 October 1987, contained an article on the recently deceased Captain Bill Purdum. One of the Submarine League’s most active members, and…

AN IRANIUN SUB IN THE PERSIAH GULF? An article on page 93 of the October 1987 SUBMARINE REVIEW reported that the Iranians were about to…

U.S. submarine warfare, as pictured today can be readily and simplistically described. Our submarines will respond to the Maritime Strategy by conducting independent forward barrier…

Many of the Navy’s best and brightest officers are serving on SSN’s and SSBN’s. Duty in submarines has become almost career long. I heard one…

The AKULA; It is seemingly the same as the ALFA only the AKULA appears to be twice as large in displaceme~t. Its sleek, low-slung sail,…

In the January 1988 issue, THE SUBMARINE REVIEW’s editor suggests that “the Congress believes that the Navy’s requested submarine R&D programs have not reflected the…

To paraphrase John Naisbitt’s best seller MEGATRENDS, “In ASW, we have been moving from the old to the new. And we are still in motion.…

In the years that followed the American Civil War, numerous inventors attempted to “modernize” what has now come to be known as the submarine. One…

The Soviets have been using the term unsinkability (“nepotoplyayemost”) since the late-1880s to describe built-in structural and mechanical features which prevent loss or ship stability,…