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The U.S. Navy’s Sturgeon-class Submarine: An Experiment Gone Right
The Navy had to be prepared to fight and win such a war. Enter the Navy’s Sturgeon-class submarine, a landmark in submarine technology. Indeed, these subs provided the backbone of the undersea ...
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The Most Secret Submarine in the US Navy Fleet?
Launched in the early 1970s, US Navy submarine USS Parche was initially built as one of many Sturgeon-class attack submarines. But as fate would have it, she would then be transformed into a highly ...
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Can I Borrow Your Sub?
In August 1993, when the USS Pargo, a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, went to sea with five civilian scientists aboard, George Newton smiled. It had been the end of a long journey for him.
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Russia’s Typhoon-class Submarine Is Now a Museum
The submarine’s massive size and quiet operation—owing to advanced sound-dampening technologies—made it a formidable ghost in ...