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AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has heard 60 cases in his first year as President Donald Trump’s pick for the high court. His written opinions, oral argument questions, and scant public statements reveal the kind of justice he’ll be. As the junior justice on the court, he’s also responsible for “cafeteria […]
Enlarge / U-35 under construction at Kiel in 2013. The sub—like all the others in Germany’s fleet—is currently in for repairs. (credit: Bjoertvedt ) Germany has a submarine problem. During a test dive in October, the Deutsche Marine’s U-35 struck something (probably a rock) with one of its four “X-rudders,” the steering planes on its […]
Published time: 29 Nov, 2017 18:01 British submarines could face the same fate as Argentina’s lost ARA ‘San Juan’. In his damning 2015 expose on failures aboard Trident, Royal Navy whistleblower William McNeilly warned UK subs share the same faults as the missing vessel. According to Argentinian media, the final message from the missing submarine […]
Published time: 19 Nov, 2017 22:58 The seven satellite calls recently detected by Argentine officials searching for the missing submarine, the ARA San Juan, have not helped determine the vessel’s location. The signals were “intermittent and weak,” naval commander Gabriel Galeazzi said, as cited by Reuters, and “could not help determine a point on the […]
Enlarge / Groove Music. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft announced today that it’s getting out of the online music business. Music purchases in the Windows Store will cease, and the Groove Music Pass subscription service is also ending. The company says that it will continue to develop the Groove Music app (formerly known as Xbox Music) for […]
Published time: 17 Sep, 2017 21:01 Edited time: 17 Sep, 2017 21:05 A joint Russian-Chinese naval force of more than a dozen military vessels, including submarines, will participate in the upcoming second stage of the Joint Sea-2017 naval drills in the Sea of Japan and Okhotsk. The drills will kick off Monday and continue for […]
The Confederate submarine CSS H. L. Hunley bears the distinction of being the first submarine to ever sink an enemy ship. But the Hunley, a work of state-of-the-art engineering for its time, never returned from that mission on February 17, 1864. Instead, after exploding a “torpedo” below the waterline of the Union sloop-of-war USS Housatonic in Charleston […]
Published time: 14 May, 2017 14:34 British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon insists he has “complete confidence” in the safety of Britain’s nuclear submarines, but refused to deny that they run on the Windows XP operating system that has been exploited in a major global cyberattack. Since Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was walloped by the […]
