– Wired – The Navy’s newest warship is slowly disappearing, one molecule at a time.
Royal Navy – Bandits à neuf heures, Jacques! Royal Navy pilots have language lessons so they can use French aircraft carrier
– Daily Mail – Royal Navy top-gun pilots are being forced to learn French so that they can fly from France’s flagship aircraft carrier.
Vietnamese Navy – Vietnam to hold joint naval drill with US
– Associated Press – Vietnam and the United States are to hold joint naval exercises, Hanoi said on Thursday as regional tensions simmer over territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Phillipine Navy – US obliged to defend Filipinos in Spratlys
– Associated Press – U.S. forces are obliged to help defend Filipino troops, ships or aircraft under a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty if they come under attack in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Philippine officials said, citing past American assurances.
French Navy – French army and navy operate in closest collaboration yet
– Defense Technology International – The French army and navy have never before worked in such close cooperation in a major operational mission as they are today in Libya, says French Army Chief of Staff General Elrick Irastorza.
Russian Navy – Russia signs contract to buy two Mistral-class BPCs
– Defense Technology International – The Russian defense export agency Rosoboronexport finally signed the contract with the French military naval systems company for two Mistral-class BPC helicopter landing docks.
Taiwanese Navy – Taiwan navy prepares missions to contested waters
– AFP – Taiwan’s navy said Tuesday it would not scrap scheduled patrol missions to disputed islands in the South China Sea, despite a flare-up of regional tensions in the contested waters.
Chinese Navy – China to boost coastal forces amid sea tensions
– Daily Telegraph – China will boost offshore surveillance by adding ships and 6,000 personnel by 2020 in a move likely to raise tensions with South China Sea neighbours staking rival claims to waters thought to hold vast reserves of oil and gas.
Phillipine Navy – Philippines to China: Don't intrude into our water
– Associated Press – Philippine President Benigno Aquino III insisted Friday that his country won’t be bullied by China in a territorial spat over the Spratly Islands, but also announced an end to oil exploration in the disputed waters that had angered Beijing.
Royal Navy – Britain can do 'nothing' to prevent Argentina retaking Falkland Islands
– Daily Telegraph – The head of the Naval task force in the Falklands War has warned that defence cuts mean Britain can now do “precisely nothing” to prevent Argentina retaking the islands.
Chinese Navy – China stages military drills in South China Sea
– Chinese Navy – China stages military drills in South China Sea – China said Friday that its maritime defense forces recently staged three days and nights of exercises in the South China Sea, a disputed, resource-rich region where tensions are rising.
Royal Navy – Navy chief: Britain cannot keep up its role in Libya air war due to cuts
– Daily Telegraph – The British military intervention in Libya is unsustainable, the head of the Navy has said.
US Navy – Russia objects to US warship in Black Sea
– Associated Press – Russia is voicing concern about a U.S. warship now just off its shores in the Black Sea. The guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey, which is taking part in annual joint military exercises conducted by NATO and Ukraine, is an integral part of U.S. plans to create a missile shield in Europe, which Russia opposes.
US Navy – US Navy 'stopped North Korean vessel bound for Burma'
– BBC – A US warship intercepted and halted a North Korean vessel that was bound for Burma and was suspected of carrying missile technology.
Vietnamese Navy – Vietnam in live-fire drill amid South China Sea row
– BBC – Vietnam is holding live-fire drills in the South China Sea amid high tensions with China over disputed waters.
US Navy – U.S. Navy Shipbuilder Bets On Composites
– Aviation Week – The sign outside the Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Composites Facility in Gulfport, Miss., states the company’s optimism about the potential for advanced materials in U.S. Navy shipbuilding: “Composites, the Wave of the Future.”
Air Warfare – U-Turn
– Armed Forces Journal – P.W. Singer writes that unmanned systems could be casualties of budget pressures
Geopolitics / Pakistan – The Double Game
– New Yorker – The unintended consequences of American funding in Pakistan.
Intelligence – The Secret Sharer
– New Yorker – An inside look at the workings of the NSA. Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency, faces some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.
US Navy – Twilight of the $UPERfluous Carrier
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – With smaller and lighter unmanned aircraft coming into the mix, the United States can also deploy smaller and lighter—and less expensive—ships to carry them.
Geopolitics / China – The West and the Rest: the Changing Global Balance of Power in Historical Perspective
– Chatham House – Niall Ferguson on the future of China.
Geopolitics / China – The China Challenge
– Wall Street Journal – Henry Kissinger on the future of China.
Royal Navy – Changing Needs Influence Warship Design
– Aviation Week – Warship design in much of the world may be entering a new era, with requirements driven less by peer-on-peer sea battles and more by lessons of the past decade, combined with economic constraints.
Royal Navy – Lusty at sea
– Defense Technology International – HMS Illustrious, known in the Royal Navy as Lusty, will be returning to sea on June 3 after 16 months of a €45 million modernization of her electronics, data processing systems and living quarters at the Scottish shipyard Babcock.
Miscellaneous – Small is the new big in naval shipyards
– The Economist – A look at the changing nature of naval shipbuilding.
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