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On April 4, Beijing escalated the global rare earths confrontation by announcing a sweeping export ban on seven critical rare earth elements and industrial-grade magnets used across the defence, energy, and automotive sectors, in a calculated response to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff impositions on Chinese goods.
Amid an increasingly hostile standoff between Moscow and Washington, Russian naval experts have stirred debate in global defence circles by asserting that the sonar suite aboard their Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines vastly outperforms the undersea detection systems fielded by American counterparts.
The unveiling of China’s latest nuclear-powered attack submarine, the Type 09IIIB—referred to in NATO reporting nomenclature as the Shang-III class—underscores Beijing’s intensifying pursuit of full-spectrum maritime superiority beneath the waves.
In a discovery that underscores the intensifying undersea intelligence conflict between major powers, British military forces have recovered covert Russian surveillance devices hidden within UK territorial waters — a potential indication of Moscow’s growing appetite to penetrate Britain’s most sensitive nuclear deterrent capabilities.
In early March, high-resolution satellite imagery captured a notable surge in activity at Russia’s strategically critical Zapadnaya Litsa naval base on the Kola Peninsula, revealing the presence of five sophisticated nucleat submarines from the formidable Northern Fleet.
Singapore is making a bold move to expand its undersea arsenal, setting its sights on acquiring two more state-of-the-art Type 218SG Invincible-class submarines—a powerful addition to the four cutting-edge vessels it had previously procured from Germany, announced by its Defence Minister Dr. Ng Eng Hen.
In a dramatic revelation, it has emerged that a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine was unknowingly “hunted” for a staggering nine hours by a Russian anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft in the waters of Russia’s Far East.
China’s latest nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), the Type 09IIIB—also known as the Shang-III class—represents the latest evolution in the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) growing undersea warfare capabilities.
As the tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated, Russian submarine experts claimed that the capabilities of new-generation sonar installed in their Borei-class nuclear-powered submarines surpass those of the United States’ nuclear submarines.
The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has officially decommissioned its last two Challenger-class submarines, RSS Conqueror and RSS Chieftain, in a ceremony held at RSS Singapura – Changi Naval Base on November 25, 2024.