CNN – U.S. Navy ships loaded with supplies for victims of Myanmar’s cyclone will sail away from the country’s coast on Thursday, after the ruling junta refused for three weeks to allow them to deliver aid.
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US Navy – Navy Hopes This Jam Is Gonna Last
Defense Technology International – The customer sounds happy as the first EA-18G Growler reaches the operator.
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Terrorism – Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave
New York Review of Books – Ahmed Rashid reviews the current state of the jihad against the West.
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Piracy – Navies to tackle Somali pirates
BBC – The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to allow countries to send warships into Somalia’s territorial waters to tackle pirates.
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Russian Navy – Russia's Phantom Fleet Buildup
StrategyPage – The Russian Navy’s shipbuilding plans are still mostly plans. For the last seventeen years, most of their construction effort went into finishing a few subs, and building for export.
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US Navy – Titanic search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission
The Times – The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines???When Bob Ballard led a team that pinpointed the wreckage of the liner in 1985 he had already completed his main task of finding out what happened to USS Thresher and USS Scorpion.
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Royal Navy – Avast there! Prince William to take on pirates of the Caribbean
The Times – Prince William is to go into action fighting the modern-day pirates of the Caribbean. He may be armed if he joins Royal Navy boarding parties that stop cocaine traffickers trying to smuggle drugs in fast launches.
The role is a consolation to the prince after he was banned from going to war in the Gulf with the Royal Navy because of fears his presence could provoke a terrorist attack on British ships.
Daily Telegraph – Prince William to take on Caribbean drug lords
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Indian Navy – No U.S. plans to sell ageing warship to India: Gates
Reuters – The United States has no plans to sell an ageing aircraft carrier to India, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday.
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German Navy – Submerged IDAS Missile Firing is Milestone for Undersea Warfare
Defense Technology International – A German navy submarine has achieved a major milestone in undersea warfare by successfully test firing a fiber-optically-guided IDAS (Interactive Defense and Attack system for Submarines) missile from a submerged position yesterday.
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Russian Navy – NATO submarine "mates" with Russian rescue system
Russian Navy – A Russian rescue system coupled with a NATO submarine for the first time on Wednesday in a joint exercise off Norway.
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Operations Other Than War – Navy ships likely to leave Myanmar
Associated Press – The senior commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific says the Navy probably will withdraw a group of naval vessels from waters off the coast of Myanmar within days unless the government allows the ships to offload their relief supplies for cyclone victims.
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US Navy – Kitty Hawk Leaves Japan for Decommissioning
Associated Press – The oldest active ship in the U.S. Navy, the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, made its final departure from Japan on Wednesday to be decommissioned after nearly half a century of service.
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Royal Navy – HMS Superb nuclear submarine damaged in Red Sea crash
The Times – A British nuclear-powered submarine was damaged when it collided with rocks in the Red Sea
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US Navy – Japanese file appeal against US aircraft carrier
Associated Press – Japanese seeking to block a nuclear-powered U.S. warship from being permanently based in Japan took their lawsuit to a higher court Monday.
The latest move by the 248 plaintiffs follows the May 12 rejection by a district court of their lawsuit demanding a halt to harbor work to accommodate the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, which is scheduled to be based at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, starting August.
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Operations Other Than War – Western navy help unwanted by Myanmar
Associated Press – With their history of xenophobia, no one expected Myanmar’s generals to welcome a flotilla of warships trying to help bring relief to millions affected by Cyclone Nargis. True to form, they didn’t.
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Royal Navy – Royal Navy commanders let students crash nuclear submarine into seabed
The Times – A Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine struck the bottom of the sea at more than 14 knots because of basic navigational errors made during a training exercise for three students on board.
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French Navy – French Naval Pilots Practice on USS Harry S. Truman
Defense Technology International – Where do French naval pilots practice taking-off and landing on an aircraft carrier while theirs is in the shipyard? Answer: borrow others’ at every available opportunity???or land on one sketched out on a landing strip. So, before the USS Harry S. Truman sails out of French waters after docking in the Mediterranean port of Marseilles, since last Thursday two Rafales and one Hawkeye had some practice runs landing and taking off from its flight deck yesterday.
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US Navy – Navy Riverine Squadron Two returns to Norfolk today
Virginian Pilot – Riverine Squadron Two, with 130 sailors, is expected to return to Norfolk today after nearly eight months on deployment in Iraq.
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Military Space – A flower in the polar sky: the POPPY signals intelligence satellite and ocean surveillance
Space Review – In the 1960s the US Navy developed the POPPY series of satellites designed to identify the location of Soviet radars and naval vessels. Dwayne Day examines the history of this satellite program, including new information on the role these satellites played in the Cold War.
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Royal Navy – MoD ready to sign £3.9bn deal for two new aircraft carriers
The Times – Doubts over the Government’s plan to order two 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers were lifted yesterday when the Ministry of Defence announced that it was ready to sign the £3.9 billion contract. A full audit of the carrier programme, including an assessment of whether there will be enough crew and pilots to man the huge vessels, has been ordered by one of the MoD’s senior military commanders.
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US Navy – Boeing building new submarine-hunting airliner
Northwest Cable News – The Boeing 737 is the most popular airliner in the world, but Boeing is also building a militarized version.
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Norwegian Navy – Skjold-class Littoral Combat Craft are now "Corvettes"
Defense Technology International – Norway’s futuristic, high-speed, next-generation surface-effect-ship naval craft are no longer being called “MTBs” or “FPBs” but now are officially designated to be “corvettes.”
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Royal Navy – Royal Navy may share new carriers with France
The Times – Two hundred years after the battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy could end up sharing the pride of its fleet with the French. Driven by spiralling budgets, the two navies began talks last week aimed at sharing their aircraft carriers.
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Operations Other Than War – Eyewitness: Ship barred from Burma
BBC – The US navy aircraft carrier, USS Essex, is moored off the coast of Burma, prohibited by the military government from swinging into action to help cyclone victims. The BBC’s Nick Bryant reports from aboard the ship.
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Operations Other Than War – Aid at the Point of a Gun
New York Times – Robert Kaplan discusses whether countries should intervene militarily in order to provide humanitarian relief to the cyclone victims in Burma.
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