The Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine Soryu's failure to detect a cargo ship in time to avoid slamming into it while surfacing was likely due to the crew not checking a blind spot in its sonar ...
Zivon Wang, a military analyst at the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, said he believes the submarine surfacing was "likely a routine transit for a mission switch or maintenance at the ...
A surfacing Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine slammed into a foreign cargo ship on Feb. 8 while on a training exercise in waters south of Kochi Prefecture. Three crew members aboard the MSDF ...