submarine
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Australia is boosting its undersea warfare capability by equipping its Ghost Shark autonomous submarine with "swarms" of aerial drones and sea mines, its defence ministry said Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
The Royal Navy's newest Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine has arrived at its home port in Scotland.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Orders for three floating dry docks, worth £6bn, to maintain the Royal Navy's nuclear-powered submarine fleet at Faslane will go to a UK-based shipbuilder, the chancellor has confirmed.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Our first Columbia-class submarine won’t conduct a deterrent patrol until 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Arkhipov had survived the K.19 nuclear submarine disaster the year before.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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The technology itself isn’t new—the Navy has used nuclear reactors on submarines for decades—but it has never taken off for international shipping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Commons Defence Committee said a shortage of Royal Navy warships and submarines was leaving the country's critical infrastructure in the High North, including undersea cables and energy supplies, exposed.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
China is focused on developing undersea sensors, weapons and autonomous vehicles to counter US submarines, the US Navy's intelligence director told a US government committee in May.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Navy P-8A Poseidon at Keflavik Air Base, one of the maritime patrol aircraft that rotate through Iceland to hunt and track submarines across the North Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
At the beginning of 1917, the German navy had about a hundred submarines available for action in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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The historical odds will be against the Nets, who have been submarined by Durant’s January knee sprain, Harden’s February departure and Irving’s part-time availability because of his unvaccinated status.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
A strained shoulder capsule submarined his comeback hopes in 2019.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2020
Theoretically, those Sunday figures could be submarined by a handful of meaningless rounds where Finau was never in the tournament mix.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 3, 2020
Twice in the last six weeks, Johnson has submarined the Lakers by being out front without being up front.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2019
When "submarined" crews are rescued the sailors willingly give up their comfortable berths and do everything else in their power to make the shipwrecked mariners comfortable.
From Our Navy in the War by Lawrence Perry
The Cyclones shot 32% in the second half, submarining their own cause further by turning the ball over 18 times.
From Fox News ● Mar. 26, 2022
Quisenberry, a submarining closer with a world-class wit, won five Rolaids Relief Man awards for the Royals in the 1980s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Chicago had the bases loaded with one out when submarining right-hander Tyler Rogers caught Willson Contreras looking at an 84 mph fastball on a 3-2 count.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
Wall’s health problems sabotaged the 2017-18 season, they are submarining the ongoing 2018-19 season, and now they threaten the 2019-20 campaign 10 months before it will officially begin.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2019
But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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