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The US Navy has a submarine crisis — America’s broken shipyards can’t build even cheap diesel-electric subs anymore

The U.S. Navy is currently experiencing a submarine crisis. It needs more submarines than it has at its disposal. America’s ...
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Diesel engines need air, submarines run underwater, so how do diesel submarines work?

While diesel engines don't need spark plugs, they do need air ventilation for proper combustion. This is a problem for vessels traveling underwater, such as submarines. Yet diesel submarines exist and ...
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Diesel Engines Need Oxygen, So How Do Submarines Use Them Underwater?

Inside a diesel engine's cylinder, compressed air raises the temperature to ignite injected fuel, and the resulting force drives pistons to power the vehicle's main gears. Chief to this combustion ...
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Diesel Submarines

A triad of SSGs, SSKs, and SSNs would comprise a forbidding implement of access denial for the US Navy in the Indo-Pacific. Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s reliance on expensive, complex ...
The National Interest

Taiwan’s Hai Kun Diesel-Electric Submarine Could Deter China. Here’s Why It Won’t.

Taiwan is absolutely right in recognizing the need for indigenously built submarines. But they’ve dropped the ball when it comes to implementation of that need. A new round of fear scenarios about an ...