AIP

Summary and Key Points You Should Be Aware of: Canada announced the procurement of 12 conventionally powered, under-ice-capable submarines to enhance its maritime defense, part of its strategy “Our North,...

Summary and Key Points: As tensions rise in the Pacific, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force has commissioned its latest Taigei-class submarines to counter Chinese and North Korean aggression. -The diesel-electric Taigei-class,...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The second Lada submarine—Kronstadt, the one being referenced by TASS’ source—is now reportedly on the cusp of entering service, following a tortured construction process involving several sweeping revisions....

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Sweden’s two A26s should be completed between 2022 and 2024, at which point it will be possible to gauge whether they can meet their ambitious...

Key Point: AIP, while not granting a diesel-electric submarine the same underwater staying power as a nuclear-powered submarine, is still a radical improvement. One of the most crucial improvements in submarines...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: One of the most crucial improvements in submarines of the postwar era is the air-independent propulsion (AIP) system. First fielded in the 1990s, the...

Here’s What You Need To Know: AIP, while not granting a diesel-electric submarine the same underwater staying power as a nuclear-powered submarine, is still a radical improvement. One of the most...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Chinese navy currently has no further plans for new AIP submarine classes. Rather, PLAN continues to make iterative improvements to the Yuan-class. Even as...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Chinese navy currently has no further plans for new AIP submarine classes. Rather, PLAN continues to make iterative improvements to the Yuan-class. Even as...

Even as the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) forges ahead with plans for a slew of nuclear-powered submarines, Beijing is also making substantial investments into air-independent propulsion technology. One of...

Key point: Germany is joining multilateral efforts to patrol the South China Sea. On February 18, 2018, officials gathered to celebrate the launch of a new state-of-the-art submarine at a...

Before investing in AIP boats, the U.S. Navy should also take care to rigorously game out future submarine warfare scenarios that involve Undersea Unmanned Vehicles. Autonomous and semi-autonomous drone submarines...