BBC – Somalia’s transitional prime minister, Ali Mohammed Ghedi, has urged neighbouring countries to send warships to patrol waters off the Somali coast.
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Daily Archives: October 14, 2005
US Navy – New chief sees expanded role for Navy
Copley News Service – American sailors might operate well beyond their traditional domain of the high seas, the Navy’s new top officer said Thursday in laying out his vision of the Navy’s future.
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Russian Navy – Deep Secrets
Moscow Times – In the new book “Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine’s Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.,” former American submariner Kenneth Sewell, in collaboration with journalist Clint Richmond, reexamines the 1968 loss of K-129, a Soviet Golf II-class missile submarine. Revisiting this well-known story and the CIA’s aborted effort to recover the hull under the guise of the highly classified Project Jennifer, the author argues that K-129 actually attempted to launch a nuclear weapon against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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US Navy – The Mach 7 Munition
Sea Power – The Navy is planning experiments with artillery that would be able to hit targets with precision 200 to 300 miles inland. The high-tech weapon would give naval surface ships a new, persistent ability to provide indirect fire to Marines or other inland maneuver forces that are rapidly outrunning the umbrella of current naval guns.