In the case of the Hero Kim Gun-Ok, the vessel started life as a Cold War-era, Soviet-built Romeo-class submarine. The Soviet Union operated Romeo-class subs under Project 633, which began in the ...

A graphic showing North Korean submarines prepared by the analyst H.I. Sutton and published on February 11, 2024. North Korea's new submarine, the Hero Kim Gun-Ok, can carry nuclear warheads, he said.

North Korea launched a new “Korean-style tactical nuclear attack submarine” on Wednesday, ... North Korea already has 20 Romeo-class subs in its fleet of an estimated 64 to 86 submarines.

Romeo-class submarines were originally build by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The capability was shared, and China later developed its own variant.

North Korea says its new submarine has nuclear-attack capabilities after years of development, ... At the time, experts assessed it as an effort to convert an existing Romeo-class submarine.

The modern submarine force of the Egyptian Navy can trace its roots back to the late 1960s, when the Soviet Union was its main defence equipment supplier, delivering two Project 613 Whiskey-class and ...

Officially known as Tactical Nuclear Attack Submarine No. 841, the sub is a radically redesigned variant of a 1950s-era Soviet Romeo-class attack submarine equipped with 10 launch tubes — four ...

The capabilities of the one introduced this week, originally a Romeo-class Soviet submarine, are unknown ; there is no evidence that North Korea has test-launched a missile from the vessel.

The DPRK owns 20 Romeo-class submarines, but the Hero Kim Gun-Ok is different, as it's been modified into a tactical nuclear attack submarine. While it reportedly carries nuclear weapons, ...

North Korea launched a new “Korean-style tactical nuclear attack submarine” on Wednesday, ... North Korea already has 20 Romeo-class subs in its fleet of an estimated 64 to 86 submarines.