Headline Roundup • September 9th, 2025
Submarines Attract Increasing Attention in Global Conflicts, Arms Races
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The world’s superpowers are reportedly working to enhance existing submarine technology while racing to develop new advancements.
Hunting For Russian Subs: Remaining mostly off of the mainstream media’s radar, NATO and the US reportedly spent the better part of a week in August searching for Russian submarines in the North Sea. The reports, first covered by The Daily Express (Lean Right bias), reported that threats against a US aircraft carrier prompted the deployment of submarine-hunting planes called P-8A . No outlets gave any specifics for what the threat may have entailed. A blog writer for National Interest (Center) said the “madcap effort to track down a Russian submarine in the North Sea shows that the threat to America’s aircraft carriers is far greater than the Pentagon lets on.” The USS Gerald R. Ford, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was purportedly the ship that received the threat, and according to the writer, could have easily “overwhelmed the carrier’s defenses” should it have fired upon it.
The Sub Race: Wall Street Journal (Center), while not reporting on the submarine hunt, published an article on Monday claiming that the US and China are in the midst of a submarine arms race. The article noted that “China is on the verge of becoming a world-class submarine power, explaining that “Beijing’s fleet gets quieter and more lethal.” While the US leads in tech in comparison to China, it “lags in production,” and according to the article, “the US and its allies are facing stiff challenges in keeping up with China.”
Weapons Of Other Forms: An opinion writer for American Greatness (Right) explained that “Trump is enlisting tech titans to secure U.S. dominance in AI, biotech, and national security,” asking whether this is “Trump’s new war production board.” The writer asserted that much of what President Donald Trump is for “the left is against,” but explained Trump has recently employed “some of the richest, most powerful–and most liberal–high tech CEOs in the country” hoping to secure US dominance in any breakthrough field causing global competition.
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Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Caitlin Flynn/U.S. Navy
NATO aircraft have spent the better part of a week searching for Russian submarines that could approach a U.S. aircraft carrier group operating off the coast of Norway, according to flight- and ship-tracking data reviewed by Newsweek.
Last week, NATO forces engaged in a massive submarine hunt off the coast of Norway—apparently one of the largest such hunts since the end of the Cold War. The search involved elements of the United States Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RoNAF) hunting down what the Barents Observer estimated was likely one of three Russian Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarines that was operating dangerously close to the US Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
China is on the verge of becoming a world-class submarine power, with new technology and a bigger, better fleet that is gaining on the U.S. and its allies—spurring a new undersea arms race in the Pacific.
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