Virginian Pilot – When the Navy takes possession this week of the USS Texas – second in a new class of stealthy, high-tech submarines – it will be a milestone for both buyer and seller.
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US Navy – In Norfolk, submarine fleet winding down
Virginian Pilot – Even as production ramps up in the Northrup Grumman Newport News shipyard, submarine activity will decline at the Norfolk naval base.
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Royal Navy – EU gaffe could expose the Navy's chart secrets
Daily Telegraph – The European Parliament has accidentally voted through a draft law that could bankrupt the Ordnance Survey and expose secret sea-mapping data that foreign powers could use to track Royal Navy ships.
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US Navy – Navy sinks retired destroyers Comte de Grasse and Stump
Virginian Pilot – The Navy sank two of its retired Spruance-class destroyers in a day of surface and air warfare training about 275 miles off the North Carolina coast, sending the largest destroyers ever built to the dark ocean floor 12,000 feet below.
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US Navy – Iwo Jima shifts from Katrina to Iraq in new deployment
Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group deploys.
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US Navy – Navy developing nanotech to improve ships
Associated Press – With an eye to developing faster ships, the U.S. Navy has teamed up with a New York company and the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop an electronics system that will sharply reduce the size and weight of a warship’s motors.
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US Navy – Rome speeds up leaving of U.S. subs
Washington Times – Italy’s new center-left government will accelerate planned closure of a U.S. nuclear submarine base on the northern coast of the island of Sardinia amid fears nearby residents suffer higher-than-average cancer rates.
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US Navy – Carrier GW leaves its mark on a region
Virginian Pilot – The USS George Washington is ending her deployment to the Caribbean Sea.
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US Navy – The Aegis of America
Asahi Shimbun – A look at the US Navy’s role in Japan.
Ashai Simbun – Yokosuka lets U.S. Navy put its best ships forward.
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US Navy – U.S. navy to beef up presence in Asian waters , report says
San Diego Union Tribune – The Pacific fleet of the U.S. Navy aims to step up the number of submarines and aircraft carriers in Asian waters to patrol the region and ensure security, its commander said on Friday.
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US Navy – Key base likely for sale to U.S., Russia
Washington Times – The tiny Balkan republic of Montenegro will offer the United States or Russia the use of a base on its Aegean coast if it wins independence from Serbia in a referendum Sunday, diplomats say.
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US Navy – Local Navy ships deploying for operations in Med, Caribbean
Virginian Pilot – Atlantic Fleet ships are headed to ports both east and south beginning today as the Navy gears up for multi national operations in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
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US Navy – Navy sonar range stirs concerns in fertile fishing area
Associated Press – Many fishermen are worried construction of a practice range where sailors would learn to find and track submarines with sonar will destroy the coral bottom that attracts fish of all kinds, and they’re concerned the sonar itself could drive away those fish that remain.
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US Navy – Coastal warfare squadron ready to launch at Little Creek
Virginian Pilot – The service’s first coastal warfare squadron on the East Coast sets out from its Virginia Beach base next week. The boats can deploy at a momentís notice to patrol the world for signs of terrorism.
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US Navy – Navy takes action to curb suicides among sub crews
Virginian Pilot – After an unusually high number of suicides among submariners last year and apparently two more this year, Navy officials are looking at what more they can do to prevent tragedies.
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US Navy – The Big E carrier group set for upcoming mission
Virginian Pilot – On Tuesday, the USS Enterprise and its six-ship strike group leave Norfolk for the Middle East and to support the global war on terrorism.
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US Navy – Sonar Called Likely Stranding Cause
Washington Post – Federal marine specialists have concluded that Navy sonar was the most likely cause of the unusual stranding of melon-headed whales in a Hawaiian bay in 2004.
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US Navy – Navy seeks guidance of Vietnam ''river rats''
Virginian Pilot – Brown-water veterans are lending their expertise to the US Navy’s new brown-water force.
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US Navy – Unmanned subs would revolutionize warfare, analyst says
GovExec – To counter China’s rapidly strengthening submarine fleet, the United States should spur a revolution in undersea warfare by focusing greater attention and resources on developing advanced unmanned underwater vehicles
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US Navy – 1,100 ready to surge into troubled waters
Virginian Pilot – The Fleet Response Plan in action???
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US Navy – Aircraft carrier group heads to Caribbean
Associated Press – Aboard the USS Washington in the Carrbbean Sea.
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US Navy – Nassau strike group on its way home from Middle East
Virginian Pilot – The USS Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group prepares to return home.
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US Navy – New Navy force will take the fight upriver in Iraq
Virginian Pilot – The Navyís river combat force, based at Little Creek, is starting from scratch, since inland patrolling was last done in Vietnam. This time, 200 sailors will be watching the waterways of Baghdad.
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US Navy – The Future Of ELF Is Up In The Air
WLUC TV6 – It’s been more than a year since the Navy turned off its ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) submarine communication system in Humboldt Township, but the future of the facility is still uncertain.
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US Navy – Refitted submarine about ready to return to service
Virginian Pilot – The former ballistic missile submarine USS Florida is about to head back into service after an extensive conversion.
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