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Submarine navigation underwater requires special skills and technologies not needed by surface ships. The challenges of underwater navigation have become more important as submarines spend more time underwater, travelling greater distances and at higher speed.
Aces of the Deep is a World War II submarine simulator game developed by Dynamix for MS-DOS in 1994. The game was re-released by Sierra On-Line for Windows in 1995 as Command: Aces of the Deep . Aces of the Deep was the last installment of Dynamix 's Aces series, which included the flight simulators Red Baron , Aces of the Pacific , and Aces ...
The submarine had been undergoing repairs at Sevastopol Shipyard in Crimea after being hit by a suspected Storm Shadow or SCALP missile in September 2023. There was no confirmation of the sinking from Russia, although an alleged decoy was seen on satellite imagery, with what is believed to be the genuine submarine sunk and partially under a ...
Many modern attack submarines can launch cruise missiles (and dedicated anti-ship missiles) from their torpedo tubes while some designs also incorporate a small number of VLS canisters, giving an overlap between cruise missile submarines and traditional attack submarines. Nonetheless, vessels classified as attack submarines are designed to use ...
Under the Ice is a submarine warfare video game for the Atari ST and IBM PC compatibles running GEM. It simulates one of three battles between NATO and Soviet submarines in the area around Iceland. A key element of the game was an accurate simulation of the performance of sonar, the various classes of submarines, and their weapons.
The SWWAS series simulates World War II naval combat using a dual operational/tactical system with the following characteristics: Each major surface unit (Aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers and fleet destroyers) are represented with a single 1"/.5" rectangular counter containing the ship's statistics (below).
Head of the snorkel mast from German type XXI submarine U-3503, scuttled outside Gothenburg on May 8, 1945 but raised by the Swedish Navy and carefully studied for the purpose of improving future Swedish submarine designs. Germany defeated the Netherlands in 1940; their capture of O-25 and O-26 was a stroke of luck for the German Navy, the ...
In a storm, even large vessels may be rolled by being hit broadside by a large wave or swell or "pitch poled" stem over stern in extreme waves.This is normally catastrophic for larger ships, and smaller yachts can be dismasted (i.e., lose their masts and rigging) due to the drag as the boat is forced to roll over.