Submarino de propulsão nuclear de ataque brasileiro: empregos e possibilidades: SN-BR evolução da Doutrina de Emprego de Submarinos na MB

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to generate theory whichmay become part of an ongoing knowledge management process in the Brazilian Navy, to serve as academic anchor for the doctrine leap to be derived from the addition of the SN-BR to the future Brazilian Naval Power. Its argument is founded on the assessmentof the Brazilian area of interest, its wealth, actors present, as well as current and future threats. Sea lines of communicationare ranked as goods of interest, for their direct ties to the development of the country. Submarines are studied with the objective of exposing true capacities of a nuclear attack vessel. An approximation of what will future Brazilian nuclear submarines be is then analyzed, in agreement to Brazilian Naval Power doctrinal provisions –the Navy ́s Basic Doctrine. Foundations of submarine operations doctrine are then expressed and examined, to reveal a doctrinal robustness achieved after over a century of operations in the Brazilian Navy. This basis is contrasted with new standards regulating nuclear attack submarine operations, and new theoretical commandments are described, to summarize a part of the basis for the production of the new operations doctrine. This paper’s final section introduces the potential nuclear attack submarine, explainingits choice for the Navy of Brazil.