Editorial Note – New URL for NOSI – Effective immediately, NOSI has a new, shorter, and easier to remember address: http://www.nosi.org.

The old NOSI address (http://nosi.editthispage.com) will continue to work for the forseeable future, and will be the address you will continue to see on your screen. I will warn you when it no longer works. In the meantime, feel free to use and publicise http://www.nosi.org and to update your bookmarks and links.

US Navy – Is Fleet Week in New York City a terrorist target?

• BBC: US warning on terror weapons

Singaporean Navy – Singapore and Thailand are holding a joint naval exercise in the South China Sea.

• The Straits Times: Singapore-Thai naval exercise on

Canadian Navy – Canada is likely to loose its indigineous warship construction capability.

• Globe and Mail: Rock planning to sink shipyards

Canadian Navy – Canada’s Sea King helicopters have no useful self-defense capability.

• Halifax Herald: Military ignored Sea King crews’ advice

Royal Australian Navy – ???while Australia is unhappy with the 40 year-old SH-2 Seasprite helicopters that it is acquiring.

• The Age: Australia dudded on choppers, says Labor

US Navy – A fascinating behind-the-scenes look by James Fallows at the Joint Strike Fighter competition that explains how Lockheed won the contract from Boeing.

• The Atlantic: Uncle Sam Buys and Airplane