The USS Florida is capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and is deployed to US 5th Fleet to help ensure regional maritime security.
Three-nation exercise was arranged to improve the three allied countries’ capacities to respond to underwater security threats posed by North Korea’s advancing submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
The launch came hours before South Korea and the United States were set to kick off their largest joint exercises in five years amid nuclear-armed Pyongyang warning such drills could be seen as a "declaration of war".
Hangor Class submarine is capable of undertaking a variety of missions as per operational dictates.
Federal court sentences nuclear engineer Johnatan Toebbe and his wife Diana Toebbe for a plot to sell secrets about nuclear submarines to a foreign government — reportedly Brazil.
US military spokesman has said Moscow’s claims of a US submarine infringing on Russia’s territorial waters have “no truth”.
Pyongyang successfully tests a "new type" of Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile, state media KCNA reports.
Navy spokesperson Julius Widjojono says there are no plans to continue the retrieval effort for the 44-year-old submarine after cooperation with China ended.
Indonesia’s military confirms that all 53 crew members are dead as it declares that the missing submarine sunk and cracked open after finding items from the vessel over the past two days.
KRI Nanggala 402 had lost contact after its last reported dive Wednesday off the resort island, and the navy chief has said it was expected to run out of oxygen early Saturday morning.
While the US, Australia, France and Germany are offering to help, Singapore and Malaysia have already dispatched rescue ships to support the search for the KRI Nanggala 402 vessel that went missing during live torpedo exercises.
Russia's defence ministry said at least 14 sailors were killed by toxic fumes from the blaze on a naval research submersible but did not specify how many crew members were aboard.
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