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 ...

The Egyptian Navy has experienced a significant period of capability growth in recent years, with French, German and Italian ...

Analysts said the vessel appears to be a modified Soviet-era Romeo-class submarine, which North Korea acquired from China in the 1970s and began producing domestically. Its design, with 10 launch ...

But being launched from a submarine can make missiles harder to detect, and allows them to get closer to other targets. North Korea's existing Romeo-class submarines, which were built in the 1990s ...

Analysts have debated whether the apparent new missile submarine is a new design, or whether it is based on a modified Romeo Class of submarine originally acquired from China in the 1970s before ...

A submarine capable of firing nuclear weapons ... Analysts believe it is a Soviet-era Romeo-class sub - the same that Mr Kim inspected in 2019 - but has been modified to carry nuclear weapons.