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Thursday, August 28, 2008
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The Times - A new Cold War between Russia and the West grew steadily closer yesterday after the Kremlin gave a warning about “direct confrontation” between American and Russian warships in the Black Sea.
Associated Press - US cancels plan to send military ship to Poti.
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Posted on 8/28/08; 2:50:00 AM |
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Defense Technology International - The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier came out of its dry dock in the Mediterraean port of Toulon on a beautiful August 22 dawn and has another 100 days of maintenance and upgrade at quayside before it can go back to sea.
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Posted on 8/28/08; 2:42:47 AM |
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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Virginian Pilot - The quick delivery of more than 50 tons of humanitarian aid to war-torn Georgia on Sunday left the crew of a Norfolk-based destroyer "extremely enthusiastic about the opportunity to help" and ready to do more.
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Posted on 8/27/08; 2:00:48 AM |
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Navy Times - The Navy’s traditionally safe P-3 Orion patrol aircraft community has suffered six in-flight mishaps this fiscal year — including its first Class A mishap in at least 10 years. But despite a steady uptick in mishaps, and the December grounding of 39 P-3s because of fears that wing sections could break off in flight, Navy and civilian officials insist the Orion is still safe to fly.
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Posted on 8/27/08; 1:59:20 AM |
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Reuters - Russia's flagship cruiser re-entered the Black Sea on Monday for weapons tests hours after the Russian military complained about the presence of U.S. and other NATO naval ships near the Georgian coast.
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Posted on 8/26/08; 2:44:35 AM |
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Defense Technology International - Moscow is flexing its muscles again in the eastern Mediterranean, and aims to reactivate old cold war naval installations with its ally, Syria.
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Posted on 8/26/08; 2:43:08 AM |
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BBC - A US warship has arrived in the Georgian port of Batumi carrying the first delivery of aid supplies by sea.
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Posted on 8/25/08; 4:20:22 AM |
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Virginian Pilot - The carrier George Washington left San Diego on Thursday, bound once again for Japan after undergoing several months of repairs caused by a shipboard fire.
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Posted on 8/25/08; 4:17:32 AM |
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
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NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Monday August 25th.
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Posted on 8/21/08; 3:16:26 AM |
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New York Times - A growing array of military leaders, Arctic experts and lawmakers say the United States is losing its ability to patrol and safeguard Arctic waters even as climate change and high energy prices have triggered a burst of shipping and oil and gas exploration in the thawing region.
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Posted on 8/21/08; 3:14:42 AM |
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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New York Times - Turkey refuses a US request to allow the hospital ship Comfort to transit the Bosphorus Straits to deliver aid to Georgia.
Baltimore Sun - USNS Comfort won't go to Georgia
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Posted on 8/20/08; 1:28:37 AM |
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Associated Press - The Navy has changed course and decided to push for construction of a third DDG-1000 destroyer that would be built at Bath Iron Works.
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Posted on 8/20/08; 1:28:12 AM |
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Washington Post - A National Research Council blue-ribbon panel of defense experts is recommending development and testing of a conventional warhead for submarine-launched intercontinental Trident missiles to give the president an alternative to using nuclear weapons for a prompt strike anywhere in the world.
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Posted on 8/19/08; 1:36:54 AM |
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Virginian Pilot - Port of Call - Iraq...
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Posted on 8/18/08; 1:06:15 AM |
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Guardian - A fire that killed two sailors aboard a nuclear-powered submarine as it patrolled beneath the Arctic ice was caused by a catalogue of errors that could have been avoided.
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Posted on 8/18/08; 1:05:57 AM |
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Defense Technology International - Tests this summer of Raytheon Standard Missile 2 weapons from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie were intended to demonstrate technology for a quick-reaction defense against ballistic missiles in their terminal phase. In the dry terminology of missile defense, this may not sound critical, but it indicates that the Navy is very worried about a new threat: the anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM).
Indications are that China, in particular, is developing an ASBM - an intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a guided warhead. The weapon outranges any sea-based weapon, including strike aircraft, and is hard to intercept with the most widely used versions of the Standard Missile, which are designed to hit aircraft.
The Navy is responding rapidly, according to RAdm Alan Hicks, program director for Aegis missile defense at the Missile Defense Agency.
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Posted on 8/17/08; 1:07:23 AM |
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International Assessment and Strategy Center - A look at China's new anti-ship ballistic missiles.
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Posted on 8/17/08; 1:07:01 AM |
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
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Washington Times - Ukrainian military officials on Thursday vowed to uphold a decree ordering Russia to seek permission to move its Black Sea warships based in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, setting up a conflict between Russia and another pro-Western former Soviet republic.
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Posted on 8/16/08; 2:30:48 AM |
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The Times - A US Coast Guard cutter will depart for the Arctic this week as part of a race against Russia to claim the vast spoils of oil and natural gas below the sea floor that both nations are scrambling to exploit.
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Posted on 8/15/08; 1:29:50 AM |
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
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Defense Technology International - During the recent conflict with Georgia, Russia has mobilized part of its fleet toward the East Black Sea region. There have been reports that Russia has plans to move elements of its Black Sea fleet to Ochamchira, Abkhazia, ostensibly to protect Russian civilians.
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Posted on 8/14/08; 2:23:57 AM |
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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New York Times - Weeks before physical bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace.
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Posted on 8/13/08; 3:39:11 AM |
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Associated Press - A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine leaked radiation for more than two years, releasing the bulk of the material in its home port of Guam and at Pearl Harbor.
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Posted on 8/10/08; 1:28:31 AM |
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BBC - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed Canada's decision to send a frigate to Somalia to protect ships carrying food aid from pirate attacks.
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Posted on 8/9/08; 2:19:52 AM |
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Armed Forces Journal - War game designer extraordinaire Mark Herman writes that computers have permeated everyday life, making even the smallest task quicker and more efficient. The problem is that the efficiencies created by computers are costing us our resilience to rebound from technological disturbances. To counter this, the U.S. military needs to lead more war-game cyber security exercises, not only across the services, but also together with the federal civilian government, critical infrastructure industry sectors and allies.
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Posted on 8/8/08; 4:53:36 AM |
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Defense News - Top Navy acquisition officials dramatically reversed course during a congressional hearing July 31, saying the service needed to purchase more Arleigh Burke-class DDG 51 destroyers, and no longer needs the next-generation destroyer it has been pushing for over the past 13 years.
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Posted on 8/7/08; 2:34:07 AM |
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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Virginian Pilot - Debate has long raged over how the military's use of sonar to detect enemy submarines affects dolphins and whales, which use sound to navigate, communicate and locate food. Now, researchers are moving closer to getting some solid answers.
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Posted on 8/6/08; 2:26:25 AM |
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New York Times Magazine - Michael Gordon writes that the fight between the Shiites and the Sunnis in Iraq seems to be quieting down. But the Shiites still have one fight left -- among themselves.
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Posted on 8/5/08; 3:30:12 AM |
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Virginian Pilot - The Navy on Wednesday relieved the two top officers of the aircraft carrier George Washington from duty, following a fire that caused about $70 million in damage.
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Posted on 7/31/08; 2:21:15 AM |
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Defense Technology International - The first integrated U.S. and French carrier qualifications aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier are occurring.
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Posted on 7/31/08; 2:19:40 AM |
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Daily Telegraph - The Royal Navy captain in charge of the HMS Cornwall during the Iranian hostage fiasco has suffered a "shattering blow" to his career after he was relieved of command.
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Posted on 7/29/08; 2:25:35 AM |
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Reuters - Russia announced plans Sunday to revive its navy by building several aircraft carriers and improving its fleet of nuclear submarines.
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Posted on 7/28/08; 4:13:27 AM |
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Virginian Pilot - The US Navy continues to emphasize fire-fighting training...
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Posted on 7/27/08; 12:24:22 PM |
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Defense Technology International - An ex-U.S. Navy destroyer was sunk for real (by an Australian sub) in the first-ever live test of the latest Mk 48 Mod 7 CBASS heavyweight torpedo variant.
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Posted on 7/26/08; 2:42:09 AM |
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Economist - Pirates are terrorising the high seas off Africa’s east coast
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Posted on 7/25/08; 2:31:15 AM |
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Defense Technology International - The US Navy has decided not to build more than two DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class land-attack destroyers. Official word comes Thursday...
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Posted on 7/24/08; 2:06:19 AM |
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Defense Technology International - The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified the nation's Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Israel of Lockheed Martin-designed Littoral Combat Ships as well as associated equipment and services.
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Posted on 7/23/08; 2:09:22 AM |
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Virginian Pilot - The DDG 1000 was to be a class of two dozen destroyers with a radar-evading profile and a crew half the size of those on similar vessels. But purchases are on hold because of the cost – up to $5 billion each – and reliance on unproven technologies.
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Posted on 7/22/08; 1:35:45 AM |
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New York Times - Admiral Fallon shows the way forward in Iraq.
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Posted on 7/21/08; 1:23:25 AM |
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Defense News - Even before the first test version of the U.S. Navy's P-8 Poseidon is completely built, program managers have their eye on future versions of the submarine-hunting, intelligence-gathering plane.
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Posted on 7/19/08; 3:54:17 AM |
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Financial Times - Niall Ferguson looks at the current state of China today and the challenges it faces.
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Posted on 7/18/08; 1:39:21 AM |
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Defense Technology International - The first of two first of two Class 209PN air-independent propulsion/diesel-electric submarines for the Portuguese navy was launched at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), Germany's lead submarine building yard in Kiel on July 15.
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Posted on 7/17/08; 3:46:23 AM |
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Daily Telegraph - The Royal Navy will this weekend be forced to provide emergency cover for Britain's coastline because of a two-day strike by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
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Posted on 7/16/08; 3:02:22 AM |
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Associated Press - Thousands of Japanese rallied against the permanent basing of a nuclear-powered U.S. warship near Tokyo, saying a recent onboard fire made it unsafe.
About 13,000 protesters gathered at a park near the port of Yokosuka, just south of the capital, where the USS George Washington aircraft carrier will be based.
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Posted on 7/15/08; 3:41:32 AM |
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Armed Forces Journal - Adding small combatant ships would beef up the Navy’s capabilities.
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Posted on 7/13/08; 1:09:24 AM |
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Air Force - The US military now feels a need to keep a wary eye on the Strait of Malacca and its neighborhood.
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Posted on 7/12/08; 3:44:09 AM |
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Virginian Pilot - During the last five months in the Middle East, tensions grew in Syria, unrest delayed Lebanon’s president election more than 15 times, and Iraq struggled to keep oil pumping to its main offshore terminals. The USS Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group has had front row seats for all of the action.
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Posted on 7/11/08; 1:50:27 AM |
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