China has launched its seventh nuclear-powered submarine in just two years, signaling an aggressive expansion of its undersea ...

The Type 093B also stands out from other PLAN submarines in possessing pump-jet propulsion. Rather than an exposed propellor, the rotor, which has numerous blades to reduce harmonics, is housed in ...

China claims an all electric rim-driven pump-jet had been fitted to the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s newest nuclear submarines. China is talking about putting the new ultra quiet propulsion system ...

Photographs taken by a U.S.-based commercial satellite firm show what is likely a new type of Chinese navy submarine. The sub, photographed out of the water in drydock, is likely a Type 093B, an ...

The boats also incorporated technology from the Triomphan t-class of French Navy ballistic missile submarines, notably its pump-jet propulsion. The Suffren-class was developed to provide the ...

Here are the USS Virginia's engines, which powers a pump-jet propulsor rather than a conventional propeller US Navy / Wikimedia Commons ...

The boats are also less detectable to sonar than its predecessors, while other advancements include a pump jet propulsion – and Project 995AS is the first Russian submarine with such a ...

They are the first Russian nuclear submarines to be equipped with a pump-jet. Three more Borey-As are under construction, and two more have been ordered.

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) on 11 July awarded BAE Systems Land & Armaments an $11.37 million contract modification to manufacture and deliver more pump jet propulsor components and fixed ...