The USS Harder, the story of a successful submarine
The wreck of a US Navy submarine, the USS Harder, has been found about 1.000 meters deep in the South China Sea, about 80 years after its...
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The morality of autonomous drones
As technology evolves, drones are becoming more and more autonomous so the prospect of a robotic fighter is becoming an increasingly real possibility....
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A Very Special Manta Ray: DARPA's Underwater Drone Revolution
Why change or rather not take inspiration from successful evolutionary solutions, developed over millions of years by Nature? This technological concept, which is lost over time, is...
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A strange underwater boat: the Sub Marine Explorer
The Sub Marine Explorer, one of only five known diving vessels built before 1870, was designed, fitted out and launched in 1865 by Julius W. Kroehl and Ariel...
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The 76/62: a successful weapon
After World War II, with its membership in NATO, Italy received most of its armaments from the United States in the form of a "military assistance program...
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The unusual shooting of a Royal Navy admiral
On 14 March 1587 the Honorable John Byng, Admiral of the Blue, was shot by a firing squad of nine Royal Marines on the quarterdeck of HMS Monarch at anchor...
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The victory of steel! And not only that: a sort of conversion for US military construction
The American shipyard AUSTAL USA, located in Alabama, until now dedicated to constructions exclusively in aluminum, has announced a major expansion of its shipyard...
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The story of the Lady Juliana (known as the "floating brothel") and the deportees who colonized Australia
In the colonization of Australia (particularly in New Wales) there were not only male deportees, but also young women from prisons...
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Let's start the year with good news: we are getting closer to clean energy for everyone
We must be positive, once again study and application lead to concrete results despite many...
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A clear and present danger: Houthi mines, “floating death”
If it is true that tactics are used to win battles and strategy to win wars, the most...
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The situation in the southern Red Sea is deteriorating… what to expect?
What's happening in the Red Sea? In reality this question is not correct, we should ask ourselves why we have arrived at...
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The hard life on a Spanish galleon (but not only) in the XNUMXth century
Going to sea in the days of the galleons was very hard, particularly when undertaking long voyages...
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6 November 1881: inauguration of the Naval Academy of Livorno, mother house of generations of naval officers
There is a magical place, where tradition and innovation have followed one another for over a century: the Naval Academy of...
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When discipline was something... serious (part 2): punishments from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century
The number of infringements was endless and also involved objectively minor offenses such as being unhealthy for...
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Hamas special naval forces attack Israel again
The open conflict between Israel and Hamas is now a tragic fact. While the international community debates…
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When discipline was something... serious (part 1)
Obviously the title is ironic. Even today in the armed forces certain rules remain as inflexible as ever, but at the...
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Here is MAGURA V5. Will it be a new nightmare for the Russian Black Sea Fleet?
In 1938, tiny flat-bottomed motorboats (technically called M...
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The tradition of the earring in the ancient marineries
Reading various texts and consulting the web, it happens to come across the most varied theories on why sailors, in the...
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How climate change is affecting NATO policies
Reading here and there in the media, one often reads incorrect information, distorted by ideological prejudices that do not...
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The naval battle of Pantelleria, also known as the "battle of mid-June": Operation Vigorous
The units assigned to Operation Vigorous departed in staggered order with the intention of reuniting at sea before…
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