Taiwanese Navy – It remains unclear just how the US will supply Taiwan with diesel submarines.

• BBC: EU threatens to skin US / Taiwan sub deal

US Navy – General Dynamics has made a bid to acquire Newport News Shipbuilding, which would result in the creation of the dominant supplier of ships to the US Navy.

• Washington Post: Shipbuilders to merge

Background – Submarine Rescue – A recap of NATO exercise Sorbet Royal 2000, held last summer.

• Jane’s:
  In the wake of the Kursk: ‘Sorbet Royal 2000’