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…
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,…
Since the SALT Negotiations in the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union have grappled with the problem of limiting long-range sealaunched cruise missiles…
On July 26, 1987, The Washington Post printed a syndicated column by Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta entitled “Submarines for the 21st Century.” The…
On a Tuesday morning, February 1987, the U.S. nuclear submarine SCAMP was homeward bound to be decommissioned after 23 years of service. Weather forecasts the…
With the rebirth of the Navy blimp, it is appropriate to examine how it can augment potential future missions, particularly of ASW forces. History suggests…
(The author, Commander Compton-Hall, recently spent a month in China, at the invitation of the People’s Republic of China’s Navy, lecturing to Chinese submariners, the…
FROM THE PRESIDENT As most of you know we lost “Bill” Purdum on 21 January, 1988. Bill was one of the early “sparkplugsn in the…
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