Guns, explosives, submarines & cocaine: US charges Honduran president’s brother

Tony Hernandez, a former Honduran congressman and brother of the country’s sitting president, has been convicted of drug smuggling, possession of firearms and connections to “deadly and dangerous” gangs from Mexico and Colombia. The US attorney general and DEA announced Monday that Tony Hernandez has been charged with “conspiring to import cocaine”, possession of “machineguns […]

GAO says it’s ‘unknown’ if technology in Navy’s new Columbia-class submarines will work as planned

via Wikimedia Commons (Reuters) – Several of the US Navy’s Columbia-class submarine technologies critical to performance needed more development and testing to avoid potential delays and increased costs, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said on Thursday. The US Navy’s Columbia class ballistic missile submarines are slated to begin patrols in 2031, and will replace […]

Das boot ist kaputt! Germany has the world's best submarines… but none of them work

Published time: 18 Dec, 2017 04:34 Germany is effectively without its entire submarine fleet, and won’t have one vessel operational for months to come. Each one of the navy’s vaunted U-boats is either on maintenance or in desperate need of repairs. The German navy once boasted that its cutting-edge Type 212A submarines equipped with hydrogen […]

South Korea wants to purchase nuclear-powered submarines from US to deter Pyongyang – reports

South Korea reportedly seeks to acquire nuclear-powered submarines as part of its plan to purchase billions of dollars worth of American military hardware. Seoul also eyes removing the limit on its ballistic missiles’ payload to deter North Korea. The US and South Korea reached an agreement on developing a joint deterrence mechanism against Pyongyang during […]

US Naval think tank: The US needs more submarines and smaller aircraft carriers

US Navy Photo The Pentagon and the U.S. Navy must increase submarines, strengthen the surface fleet size and build new smaller, more agile carrier-type ships — as as part of a broader effort to rethink the way it constructs the American fleet for future conflicts and operations, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA) […]