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1914, October 18 – German submarine U-27 sinks HMS E3 in the first ever successful attack on one submarine by another. 1914, October 20 – German submarine U-17 sinks SS Glitra in the first submarine sinking of a merchant ship during the world wars. [1] 1915, May 7 – German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania killing 1,198 and leaving 761 ...
Submarine warfare is one of the four divisions of underwater warfare, the others being anti-submarine warfare, mine warfare and mine countermeasures.. Submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons, as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets.
USS San Francisco in a dry dock, after hitting an underwater mountain 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in 2005 This article describes major accidents and incidents involving submarines and submersibles since 2000. 2000s 2000 Kursk explosion Main article: Kursk submarine disaster In August 2000, the Russian Oscar II-class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea when a leak of high-test peroxide ...
As of 2022, China had six nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, six nuclear-powered attack submarines and 48 diesel-powered attack submarines, according to a Pentagon report on China's ...
An attack submarine or hunter-killer submarine is a submarine specifically designed for the purpose of attacking and sinking other submarines, surface combatants and merchant vessels. In the Soviet and Russian navies they were and are called "multi-purpose submarines". [ 1 ]
U.S. Southern Command said the USS Helena, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, pulled into the waters near the U.S. base in Cuba on Thursday, just a day after a Russian frigate, a nuclear ...
Another primitive technique of attacking submarines was the dropping of 18.5 lb (8.4 kg) hand-thrown guncotton bombs. [8] The Lance Bomb was developed, also; this featured a 35–40 lb (16–18 kg) cone-shaped steel drum on a 5 ft (1.5 m) shaft, intended to be thrown at a submarine. [7] Firing Lyddite shells, or using trench mortars, was tried. [7]
Two US Navy submarines conducted small-scale attacks during June and July 1945; one of the submarines also landed a small raiding party. The Allied naval bombardments disrupted industrial production in the cities targeted, and convinced many Japanese civilians that the war was lost.