Ubåt - Navy SEALS får nytt minifartøy - The War Zone

 

July 27, 2023   The U.S. Navy's newest special operations mini-submarine has now officially entered service. Unlike earlier SEAL Delivery Vehicles, the new Dry Combat Submersible allows the occupants to travel to and from their destination submerged, but without being immersed in often frigid water the whole time. The DCS, which reached initial operational capability (IOC) with the Navy sometime in June and is manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is derived from a mini-submarine design called the S351 Nemesis from MSubs in the United Kingdom. The Navy has been trying to realize a small submarine to transport SEALs inside a pressurized cabin for decades. Moreover, the service is already eyeing a follow-on DCS Next and wants that improved design to be deployable from Virginia class submarines.    Meanwhile, increased demand for RC-135V/W Rivet Joint spy plane sorties in the Pacific has led the U.S. Air Force to create a new unit in Alaska to help manage those operations. From Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the Rivet Joints will be well-positioned to gather intelligence on areas of interest in the northern end of the Pacific and the increasingly strategic Arctic region. Prior to this, the main launch point for RC-135V/W sorties across much of the Indo-Pacific region has been Kadena Air Base in Japan. The Air Force's airliner-sized Rivet Joint aircraft are powerful multi-purpose intelligence collection platforms that are designed to detect, geolocate, categorize, and monitor a variety of different signals and whatever is transmitting them.  We are also continuing our rolling coverage of the conflict in Ukraine as it develops, which can be found at The War Zone. You can also check out highlights of all our coverage from the last week below.    -- Oliver Parken The War Zone