Taiwanese Navy – the Taiwanese Navy will hold routine amphibious exercises this week near the Taiwan Strait
U.S. Navy – The USS Chancellorsville, a guided missile cruiser, will make a port of call in Qindgao, China this week. Chinese vessels will reciprocate with ports of call in Hawaii and Seattle later this year.
Canadian Navy – The last Oberon-class submarine was decommissioned yesterday. They will be replaced by 4 Upholder-class submarines in the near future.
U.S. Navy – The Navy will not be able to increase its number of nuclear submarines to the numbers it needs to meet operational committments, according to a senior admiral.
Warning – Updating of NOSI will most probably be irregular over the next 2 weeks.
Pakistani Navy – The opening of the Pakistan Navy’s new port at Ormara last month will affect the strategy and tactics of both the Indian and the Pakistan navies in a future war.
U.S. Navy – The former presidential yacht Sequoia has found a new home. I took a tour of her once, while she was on a goodwill cruise around the U.S. – she is a beautiful ship!
U.S. Navy – The U.S. military has again begun working closely with the Indonesian military for the first time since East Timor was devastated by Indonesian troops and militiamen last year. The U.S. is concerned that Indonesia could disintegrate under the weight of multiple religious and separatist conflicts.
U.S. Navy – A description of what electric drive propulsion for a warship entails???
U.S. Navy – A day in the life of VAW-124, an early warning squadron flying E-2C Hawkeyes, aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Australian Navy – Australians are begining to feel that their “special relationship” with the U.S. is undergoing unfavorable changes.
U.S. Navy – The U.S. Navy is improving Sailors’ quality of life by providing each with an e-mail account to stay in touch with home during deployments.
U.S. Marines – the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit has returned home after a 6 month deployment to the Pacific. During the cruise they assisted UN peacekeeping efforts on East Timor; exercised in the Persian Gulf with Kuwait, Quatar and Oman; and stood by to assist if necessary in evacuations from war-torn Eritrea.
No NOSI on Monday, I’ll be lecturing at the Surface Warfare Institute of Medicine’s Officer Indoctrination Course in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Taiwanese Navy – The Taiwanese Navy placed into commission the Anchorage-class amphibious landing ship U.S.S. Pensacola and 3 missile patrol boats. The landing ship, along with 2 Newport-class LSTs will form Taiwan’s amphibious rapid response force.
Indonesian Navy – The Indonesian Navy will now play a more active role in attempting to subdue the violence between Christians and Muslims in the Malukus Islands.
Royal Navy – An attempt to sue the British government for the sinking of the Argentinian Navy cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War has failed.
U.S. Marines – Is it time to take the U.S. Marines off of Okinawa, and position them somewhere else in the Pacific? Pro and Con
Chinese Navy – Russia has finished work on the second Sovremenny class frigate it is building for China, and sea trials have begun. Delivery is expected by the end of the year. The ship is armed with the SS-N-22 anti ship cruise missile.
Nigerian Navy – Nigerian Navy Sailors are being encouraged to become more proficient in small arms handling, to better help them maintain internal security and defend their fragile democracy in concert with the Nigerian Army.
Indian Navy – the Indian Navy commissioned it’s 10th Kilo-class submarine, INS Sindushastra. It is to be equipped with the Klub anti ship missile.
U.S. Marines – The U.S.M.C. Harrier fleet has been grounded, due to an excessive number of recent accidents, which have been attributed to a lack of spare parts and maintainence difficulties.
French Navy – The French Navy’s stealth missile frigate, Aconit, is currently on an around-the-world cruise, with the majority of its time being spent in Southeast Asia. It is currently visiting Singapore.
Indian Navy – Pro and (mostly) con on whether the Indian Navy should purchase the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov from Russia, by Admiral J.G. Nadkarni (retired)
Sorry for the lack of updates the last 2 days, but I am again out-of-commission with a bad case of the flu. Should be back in a day or so???
U.S. Navy – A collision at sea has occured, during underway replenishment, between the USS Denver and the USNS Yukon off Hawaii. Both ships were heavily damaged but no injuries were reported.
Royal Navy – The United Kingdom has been accused of violating Argentinian airspace this week when overflying Argentinian fishing boats, near the Falkland Islands.
Background – Falklands – In a conference on the future of the Falkland Islands, Britian vowed to continue its military committment to the islands for as long as it is needed. There are felt to be large oil holdings off the islands.
Royal Navy – HMS Tireless, one of the Royal Navy’s nuclear attack submarines, is undergoing repair at Gibraltar after suffering a coolant leak in its propulsion system while underway in the Mediterranean. Some of the locals are not pleased???
Indonesia Navy – More on the Indonesian Navy capture of boats that were smuggling weapons to the riot-torn province of North Maluku.
U.S. Navy – A report by the General Accounting Office claims that most U.S. Navy ships do not have adequate defenses against cruise missiles.
Indonesia Navy – The Indonesian Navy has captured two boats that were smuggling weapons to the riot-torn province of North Maluku.
Chinese Navy – On a port visit to Kuala Lumpur, senior Chinese Navy officials stated that one of the Navy’s roles will be to safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea.
Indian Navy – The Indian Navy must maintain control over the 1,200 islands in its territory in the Indian Ocean to ensure these islands are not used by those who have no title to them.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – The JMSDF will form its first special operations unit next year.
U.S. Navy – The U.S. Navy is lobbying hard for a 360 ship fleet to protect U.S. interests worldwide, up from the current count of 305 ships.
Indian Navy – The Indian Navy is undertaking a number of goodwill cruises around the globe in the next 2 years, for diplomatic reasons.
Ghanan and Nigerian Navies – Lessons learned in littoral warfare in Africa during operations other than war in Liberia.
Royal Australian Navy – The Collins class submarine HMAS Waller performed extremely well in the recent RIMPAC 2000 exercise, penetrating the the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln’s surface screen during the exercise.
U.S. Navy – U.S. Navy submariners claim their forces have been cut to dangerously low levels, given the wide spectrum of missions they are now called upon to execute. By next year the U.S. will be down to 50 SSN’s, a 50% reduction from Cold War strength.
Virginian Pilot – Life aboard the ballistic missile submarine U.S.S. Maryland.
Background – Electromagnetic weapons – We are becoming increasingly vulnerable to electromagnetic weapons, which emit a blast of electromagnetic radiation which toasts the electronics of any device within its range. There are suggestions that such weapons have already been used surreptitiously in wars and in terrorist operations. These weapons can be easily made at home???
U.S. Navy – Continuing on the terrorist thread???activists have claimed they sabotaged the U.S. Navy’s Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) communications system which is used to send information to ballistic missile submarines at sea. The sabotage was carried out by cutting down utility poles which supported transmission lines.
U.S. Navy – The U.S. Navy announced that the first of 32 DD-21 class land attack destroyers would be named the Admiral Elmo M. Zumwalt, after the former Chief of Naval Operations.
U.S. Navy – To increase the number of Sailors in the U.S. Navy, entrance standards are being lowered and Sailors are being given higher pay. In the short term, these changes are working.
Iranian Navy – The United States now has evidence that the governments of Iran and the United Arab Emirates are assisting Iraq in its illegal oil smuggling operations, at a nice profit to each. Meanwhile, Iran continues to maintain publically that it is helping to enforce the sanctions againts Iraq.
Indonesian Navy – The Indonesian Navy has been coordinating the search for survivors from the sunken ferry that was carrying refugees from the Moluccas.
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