Russian Navy – Could it be that the Russian Navy is pulling ahead of the West in antisubmarine detection?
Royal Navy – A fault in the heart of HMS Torbay’s nuclear reactor has been discovered only at the end of a three-year refit, instead of when it was being repaired.
US Coast Guard – Is the US Coast Guard really always ready?
Royal Navy – A large Royal Navy worldwide exercise, Argonaut 01, has begun, involving HMS Illustrious and HMS Ocean.
Background – Asia – Asian countries are beginning to align themselves to provide a counterbalance to China.
Background – US Defense Review – The UK’s view of the US Defense Review.
US Navy – The USS Constellation and USS Carl Vinson battlegroups held exercises in the South China sea, sending a signal to China that the US does not consider the South China sea to be a Chinese territory. Subsequently a P-3C patrol plane was denied permission to visit Hong Kong on a training mission.
US Navy – The US Navy’s naval aviation woes are slowly improving.
Background – Okinawa – A closer look at the complex social scene on Okinawa. Do all the Japanese want the US forces off the island?
US Navy – How the USS Kitty Hawk’s Web site is maintained.
US Navy – The US Navy will convert up to 4 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines into cruise missile carrying submarines which will also have special operations warfare capabilities.
US Navy – More on the future of UCAVs – uninhabited combat aerial vehicles, including their naval applications such as the X-47.
US Navy – What kind of access to the Internet do sailors have when they are at sea?
Israeli Navy – One of the Israeli Navy’s Dolphin-class submarines suffered a diving mishap.
Georgian Navy – The Georgian Navy has been exercising with the US Navy.
US Navy – The USS Constellation battlegroup is taking a shore leave at the new Changi naval base in Singapore.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – A Japanese submarine rescue ship will assist in the salvage of the fishing trawler Ehime Maru.
US Coast Guard – Aboard the USCG icebreaker Healy on her maiden voyage to the Arctic.
US Navy – The US Navy is increasing security around its Trident-class ballistic missile submarines and their bases.
Background – Piracy – More on the high cost to shippers of the current rash of piracy.
Russian Navy – The current Russian Navy thinking on what happened to the Kursk – it was damaged by an internal explosion.
US Coast Guard – An essay on the role the US Coast Guard can play in the US maritime strategy.
US Navy – A tanker attempting to circumvent the UN blockade against Iraq has been sunk while being pursued by US Navy ships.
Russian Navy – What it is like to dive to the Kursk.
US Coast Guard – The Commandant of the US Coast Guard says the service is being transformed, but it must be given time to make the transformation of its offshore capabilities.
Spanish Navy – The first Spanish F-100-class frigate, equipped with the Aegis combat suite, will soon enter service.
Background – Weaponization of Space – The state-of-the-art in space weapons.
US Navy – US and British forces, including aircraft from the USS Enterprise, have struck Iraqi targets in the largest raid against Iraq in the last several months.
US Marines – Eight members of the US Marines have been charged with misconduct for falsifying MV-22 Osprey maintainence records.
US Navy – The demise of the US Merchant Marine has left the US short of the sailors needed to man the cargo ships of the Ready Reserve Force, which will lead to disaster in time of war as supplies will be delayed in reaching forces in combat.
Venezuelan Navy – Venezuela is aggressively pursuing sovereingnty claims in the Carribean and using its navy to back them up.
Russian Navy – Navy Day in Russia was marked by pledges to rebuild the Russian Fleet.
US Navy – The USS Kitty Hawk has received the Rolling Airframe Missile point defense system.
Background – South East Asia – Is there a movement afoot by the US to build an Asian equivalent of NATO to help contain China?
Russian Navy – A further explanation of the new theory regarding the cause of the Kursk’s sinking.
Background – Merchant Marine – New container ships being constructed will have nearly twice the speed of current container ships. This is a potential revolution in transport – what effect will it have on naval forces?
Russian Navy – The Russian Navy claims that numerous Western submarines have been trying to investigate the wreckage of the Kursk, perhaps to learn the secrets of the Granit antiship missiles onboard Kursk.
US Navy – A US Navy frigate has collided with a whale, incurring some damage to the ship. The whale was not injured.
US Navy – A status report on the US defense review – still proceeding more slowly than had been anticipated.
Argentinian Navy – The President of Argentina has formally renounced trying to recover the Falkland Islands by force.
Russian Navy – Controversy continues over what sunk the Kursk, and a BBC documentary suggests a new cause – a hydrogen peroxide torpedo-related fire.
US Navy – Two US carriers are currently in the Persian Gulf – might the US be contemplating a retaliatory strike against Iraq due to its recent aggressive use of surface-to-air missiles?
US Navy – More on the proposed “Streetfighter”-class small surface combatants – meant to sail in harms way, and to possibly be sunk in harms way as well.
US Navy – ???meanwhile, the closest thing the US Navy has to a “Streetfighter” – the new Cyclone-class patrol boats – are being decommissioned for lack of operating funds.
US Navy – The Commander in Chief of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet reflects on his first year on the job.
Royal Marines – More details on the Royal Marines new all terrain vehicle.
Background – Weaponization of Space – With satellites playing a crucial role in naval affairs, a look at the pros and cons of weaponizing space.
Italian Navy – Italy has laid down its second aircraft carrier, the Andrea Doria. It will be about twice the
size of the current carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi.
US Navy – The USS Carl Vinson carrier battle group and USS Peleliu amphibious ready group have departed for the Persian Gulf.
US Marines – More on the new USMC cammouflage pattern.
Iranian Navy – Iranian Navy gunboats are threatening oil exploration vessels in the Caspian Sea, an area of increasing importance, oil-wise, to the US.
French Navy – A French Navy frigate has seized a large drug shipment off French Guiana in the Carribean.
US Navy – The USS Eisenhower heads in for its nuclear refueling overhaul as the USS Nimitz completes hers.
US Navy – The USS Constellation carrier battlegroup will be making a port call in Hong Kong next month, evidence of the diplomatic thaw between the US and China.
Russian Navy – The Russian Navy’s new Gepard-class nuclear attack submarine will commission soon.
Indian Navy – The US continues to bolster its ties with the Indian military, as the US will revive a joint military planning
body with India.
Singapore Navy – Singapore is becoming an important regional counterweight to China, and a key part of Washington’s China policy.
Russian Navy – A tour of the Kursk’s grave.
Russian Navy – A Russian Delta 3-class ballistic missile submarine launched a scientific satellite.
US Navy – At current construction rates, the US Navy is heading towards a 230 ship fleet.
Royal Navy – Improved habitability is a key aspect of the new Type 45 destroyers under construction. The class was designed to carry people, not weapons???
Taiwanese Navy – An informal alliance is developing between Taiwan and Japan, against China.
US Navy – Another look at aircraft carrier vulnerability.
US Coast Guard – A look at the US Coast Guard in action aboard the cutter Valiant.
US Navy – The US Navy is developing plans to defend Taiwan.
Russian Navy – The former Russian carrier Varyag is in limbo in the Black Sea, unable to pass through the Bosporous Straits to her new owners in China.
Russian Navy – More evidence that Russian merchant ships are spying on US ballistic missile submarines outside their bases.
US Navy – The USS Valley Forge, an Aegis-class destroyer, has been transformed into a “smart ship.”
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