The Submarine Review

U-BOATS IN THE BAY OF BISCAY An essay in Operations Analysis, by Brian McCue. National Defense University Press, Washington, DC, September 1990 Sold by the…

Over the first months of 1991, hard news about submarines in the American Press was relatively sparse, and what there was of it appeared to…

THE THRESHER MEMORIAL As a matter of interest, I have received some mail on the TIIRESHER article in the January 1991 REVIEW (all favorable). One…

As requested by the Editor of this REVIEW, I shall try to put to paper my infamous bedpan story which I would entitle, Confessions of…

This is not another U.S. Navy submarine history. For the sake of this discussion, let us divide the 20th Century into three essentially equal parts:…

It is well known that current U.S. SSNs carry only on the order of twenty or so tube-launched weapons, with the improved 688s carrying up…

After the THRESHER loss in 1963, the Navy embarked on a program to provide a viable method of rescuing personnel from a submarine that was…

On 7 April, 1989, the KOMSOMOLETS (the “MMKE”) while at a depth of 50 meters and southwest of Bear Island (at the top of the…

Any visitor to one of our nuclear submarines is over.1″”\.. whelmed by the technology and complexity of the ship, is amazed by the compact and…

A lthough air independent propulsion (AlP) is not new, ~much has been written about it in recent years and some good development work has been…