U.S. controls on sensitive defense exports, relaxed for AUKUS partner Australia last year, still apply to submarines, creating hurdles to defense industry collaboration on U.S. Virginia-class sub production. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/15/asia-pacific/aukus-nuclear-sub-us-trade-controls/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #aukus #us #defense #submarines #china #donaldtrump

“Now is precisely the wrong time for #Australia to be joined at the hip to #Trump.

Not only are these #AUKUS #submarines never going to arrive – because they’re not building them fast enough, & the #US government has said they don’t consider giving them to Australia as a priority – but …

They’re not about defending our country, they’re about joining Trump in his next attack that he wants to make on someone else.” #USPol #auspol #TheGreens #AdamBandt

Wednesday 3 April 1963

Women who want to “spend a penny” in public conveniences will soon be freed from the tyranny of the turnstiles installed by many local councils. However, sixty-nine councils have so far refused to agree to the government’s suggestion of removing the turnstiles while eighteen councils are undecided.

This is the way, best strategy!

#KRITIS Sektor #Energie

Norway #fuel giant 'refuses to fill US #submarines' after Trump-Zelensky clash

"Norwegian #petroleum giant Haltbakk Bunkers has declared it will no longer help the US #Navy.

"No Fuel to Americans! We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example. SLAVA UKRAINA..."
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2021304/norway-fuel-giant-refuses-fill

Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty by Andrew Fowler, 2024

The spectacular fallout from Australia’s duplicitous AUKUS deal.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#Australia
#politics
#submarines

"Two people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out at BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness shipyard in #Cumbria where British nuclear submarines are built... the fire at the #nuclear submarine shipyard broke out about 12.45am"

"The shipyard is home to #Britain’s nuclear-powered Astute-class attack #submarines, and is where BAE is building the Dreadnought-class submarines that will take over Britain’s #Trident nuclear deterrent."

#StopRussianAggression #ArmUkraineToWIN

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/30/nuclear-submarine-shipyard-fire-at-barrow-in-furness-leaves-two-in-hospital

Singapore has commissioned two new advanced submarines, vessels its navy says are meant to protect sea lines of communication and which experts said would range beyond the waters of the tiny city-state to keep tabs on the region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/25/asia-pacific/singapore-submarines-asia-rivalry/ #asiapacific #singapore #submarines #asia #southeastasia

Hearings open a new act in OceanGate sub tragedy
The U.S. Coast Guard is beginning two weeks of public hearings into last year’s loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible and its crew during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck — but even before the start of the hearings, the official in charge of the hearings made clear that t
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/09/15/hearings-open-a-new-act-in-oceangate-sub-tragedy/
#GeekWire #CoastGuard #OceanGate #Science #Submarines #Submersibles #Technology #Titanic

Going up to a rich person and saying "Wanna visit the Titanic" will become a hate crime when the Billionaires take over next year

NY Times: Billionaire Plans Dive to the Titanic in a Newly Designed Submersible

Larry Connor, 74, who made his wealth in real estate, said he’s building a new acrylic-hulled submersible that will be certified and rigorously tested to show that deep sea exploration is safe. https://archive.is/6cFqw#selection-3103.0-3107.193 #billionaires #submarines #titanic #subs

Book review #18 for 2024 is W Craig Reed's Red November: Inside the Secret US-Soviet Submarine War. Beginning with 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and continuing into the early 1990's, Reed's book recounts US sub operations and their electronic surveillance and espionage missions into Soviet territory. I liked it and thought it gave some excellent background to some Cold War era events.
review @bookstodon @books #navalhistory #coldwar #submarines

Book review #15 for 2024: Peter Sagen's Stalking the Red Bear. An interesting and informative look at sub ops during the Cold War. review. #submarines #books #coldwar #history @bookstodon @books

Prepare for the exciting second book in the #Portalverse Science Fantasy series! #DeadInTheWater offers a fresh blend of military sci-fi and mythology, led by a trailblazing female captain and a badass crew. Witness hard choices, epic battles, and a found family rising against the tide of adversity. Dive in now!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanwillson/dead-in-the-water-the-latest-portalverse-sci-fi-novel?ref=dbscbl

Thunder Below: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey (1992)

Text instead of screenshots: https://cohost.org/lurkjay/post/4472620-thunder-below-the-u

Northern Fleet eyes six Yasen #submarines as #Russia approves largest ever defence spending

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/11/northern-fleet-eyes-six-yasen-submarines-russia-approves-largest-ever-defence

Submarine Stories

Recollections From the Diesel Boats

Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

#books #nonfiction #submarines @bookstodon