The Cartagena shipyard of state-owned shipbuilding firm Navantia has begun the installation of the first air-independent propulsion (AIP) system on the Spanish Navy’s Cosme Garcia (S-83) ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Non-nuclear submarines are getting more powerful. One of the most crucial improvements in submarines of the postwar era is the air independent propulsion (AIP) system.

For decades, Russia’s Kilo-class submarines were among the most recognizable diesel-electric attack submarines in ...

Navantia conducts a ceremony at its shipyard in Cartagena to mark completion of the first AIP installation into a Spanish Navy S-80 Plus-class submarine. This is the first third-generation AIP fitted ...

Key Point: AIP, while not granting a diesel-electric submarine the same underwater staying power as a nuclear-powered submarine, is still a radical improvement. One of the most crucial improvements in ...

Diesel-powered submarines present a challenge that may seem paradoxical at first. Their engines require ...

New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) indigenously developed Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system is slated to be fitted on INS Khanderi, the second submarine of the ...

The Chinese kept improving on their AIP, and the last half dozen AIP systems were designed to use a more efficient lithium battery system. This AIP 2.0 has numerous other tweaks and appears, on paper ...

Project-76 (P-76) is aimed at developing six indigenous air independent propulsion (AIP) fitted conventional submarines (SSKs), an endeavor that represents India’s naval technological leapfrogging.

An air-independent propulsion (AIP) system will not be installed in the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN's) six Collins-class submarines as part of their future ‘Life-of-Type Extension (LOTE)' programme, ...

During a visit to India by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, there is renewed momentum behind the Project 75I (P-75I) submarine deal, a ₹72,000 crore ($8 billion) program to procure 6 next-generation ...

AIP systems enable diesel-electric submarines to remain submerged and operational for weeks without surfacing or using a ...