Defense Technology International – Brazil will spend $160 million by the end of 2009 to develop a nuclear-powered submarine aimed at protecting oil reserves found recently off the Brazilian coast, the defense ministry announced on August 29. It hopes the sub wil be completed by 2020.
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Daily Archives: September 5, 2008
Operations Other Than War – Kearsarge Parties, Gets Down to Business
Defense Technology International – After almost two weeks floating off the eastern coast of Nicaragua, ferrying medical and engineering personnel to shore and patients in need of surgery back to the ship for care, the crew and medical personnel staffing the USS Kearsarge needed a break???
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