News on Submarines

Ex-Navy submariner pleads guilty in NH beating

2010-03-04T09:00:16Z

<div id="subtitle">Former Navy submariner from Calif. pleads guilty to assault in NH beating</div><div><p>A former Navy submariner charged with beating a man in Portsmouth, N.H., last year has pleaded guilty to assault.</p><p>Twenty-four-year-old Sandy Portobanco, of Reuters) - The two largest U.S. military shipyards warned on Wednesday that the U.S. Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan funded 13 fewer surface ships in the near term, which would likely result in layoffs across the industry and higher shipbuilding costs.</p><p>David Heebner,...

US Navy lifts ban on women in submarines: officials

2010-02-23T18:15:36Z

<div><p> The US Navy has decided to allow women to serve on submarines, Pentagon officials said, ending one of the last all-male bastions in the American military.</p><p>Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved the recommendation and sent letters to Congress on Monday informing lawmakers of the plan, off...

Pentagon OKs lifting ban on women in submarines

2010-02-23T16:30:42Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday it is moving ahead with plans to end the U.S. military's ban on allowing women to serve in submarines.</p><p>U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent a letter to lawmakers ...

Navy will soon let women serve on subs

2010-02-23T14:00:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Pentagon moves to lift ban on women serving aboard submarines; change could come this year</div><div><p>The Pentagon has moved to lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines, part of a gradual reconsideration of women's roles in a military fighting two wars whose front lines can be anywhere.</p><p>At issue is the end of a policy that kept women fro...

Taiwan drops request for U.S. military subs: source

2010-02-22T10:38:44Z

<div><p>TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has effectively dropped a request for U.S. submarines to help shore up the balance of power with political rival China, a military source said on Tuesday, dissolving what could be a new rift in tense Sino-U.S. ties.</p><p...

Navy to base USS North Carolina at Pearl Harbor

2010-02-23T00:21:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Navy plans to base $2.3 billion USS North Carolina at Pearl Harbor starting this summer</div><div><p>The Navy is basing the USS North Carolina at Pearl Harbor.</p><p>The Commander Submarine Force, India announced plans Thursday to shift control of a major shipyard to the military to boost naval warship production amid complaints of delays in existing projects.</p><p>The announcement came two days after the military expressed concern about India's depleted underwater combat capabilities due to delays in constructing tactical submarines for the 134-ship navy.</p><p&...

Vietnam aims to counter China with sub deal: analysts

2010-02-23T14:52:09Z

<div><p>Vietnam's major arms deal with Russia, reported to involve the purchase of six submarines, aims to bolster claims against China over potentially resource-rich islands in the South China Sea, analysts say.</p><p>While much of Vietnam's militar...

Vietnam orders Russian submarines, fighter jets

2010-02-23T15:22:09Z

<div id="subtitle">Vietnam orders Russian submarines, fighter jets</div><div><p>Vietnam has ordered submarines and fighter jets from Russia, its former communist ally, the government announced Wednesday, in a deal reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars.</p><p>The agreement was made Tuesday during a visit to

Vietnam, Russia sign deals on defence, nuclear energy

2010-02-23T15:48:00Z

<div><p>Vietnam and Russia signed a major arms deal and a nuclear energy agreement on Tuesday, in a sign of reviving ties between Moscow and its former Soviet-era ally in Southeast Asia.</p><p>Hanoi agreed to...

New Russian missile may be behind Norwegian lights

2010-02-23T18:10:03Z

<div id="subtitle">New Russian missile may have caused blue spiraling lights in skies over Norway</div><div><p>The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway, analysts said Thursday.</p><p>Russia's defense minis...

New Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy

2010-02-23T18:01:01Z

<div><p>Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.</p><p>The Bulava missile was test-fired from the submarine Dmitry Donskoi in the White Sea ea...

Russia-U.S. arms pact extended as deadline passes

2010-02-23T21:03:21Z

<div><p>MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States failed to reach agreement on a new pact to cut vast arsenals of nuclear weapons on Friday as a Cold War-era treaty ran out, but both sides pledged to seek a deal as soon as possible.</p>&...

Submarines Dubai Escape

2009-11-24T06:17:11Z

An undated image provided by Herve Jaubert, shows one of the recreational submarines he built. Jaubert is embroiled in a federal lawsuit over an ill-fated business venture with Dubai World Corp. Jaubert claims the failed plan to build the submarines for tourist and the super wealthy cost him millions. Dubai World countersued, saying Jaubert owes them $1 million and fled Dubai firm finds its way to Fla. court</div><div><p>Former French intelligence officer Herve Jaubert believed he was essentially being held captive in Dubai when his passport was confiscated by authorities amid a dispute with...

Navy moves to put women on submarines

2010-02-24T19:25:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Navy pushes to allow women on submarines; wives worry about temptation under the sea</div><div><p>Submariners sleep nine to a bunk room. There are four showers and seven toilets for the roughly 140 enlisted men. The passageways on board the vessel are so narrow that crew members can barely squeeze by each other without touching.</p><p>And that's on the roomiest submarines.</p>&...

Women On Submarines

2009-10-13T13:46:56Z

In an Aug. 22, 2004 photo provided by the US Navy, General Dynamics test engineers rest in modified berthing facilities in the Torpedo Room aboard the pre-commissioned nuclear submarine Virginia during sea trials in the Atlantic ocean. The Navy is considering allowing women to serve aboard submarines for the firs...

Israel gets two more German submarines

2010-02-25T00:57:23Z

<div><p>Israel has taken delivery of two German submarines ordered four years ago, a military spokesman said on Tuesday.</p><p>"We have received two Dolphin-class submarines built in Germany," he said, on condition of anonymity.</p><p>The submarines, called U212s, can launch cruise missiles carrying nuclear warheads, althoug...

Military may lift ban on women in submarines

2010-02-25T01:39:19Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Pentagon officials are calling for an end to the U.S. military's historical ban on allowing women to serve in submarines.</p><p>Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the