Two good (and long) ways to end the year???
Background – Amphibious Warfare– A rather long-winded essay on the state of the art in amphibious warfare.
US Navy – ???and a four year old report that is still relavent – life aboard the nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS Florida.
Indian Navy – INS Sindhushastra, the first Indian submarine capable of firing Klub anti-shipping
cruise missiles, has arrived in India.
South African Navy – The South African Navy’s first tactical exercise in many years, performed with the German Navy, has taught it many valuable lessons.
South African Navy – The South African Navy will acquire three Class 209 Type 1400 MOD submarines from Germany, to complement the purchase of four Meko A200 patrol corvettes..
French Navy – the French Navy has placed an order for 2 multipurpose amphibious warfare ships to replace the Orage and Ouragan. These ships will be similar to US Navy LHAs/LHDs.
US Marines Through emerging concepts like Operational Maneuver from the Sea and Ship-to-Objective Maneuver, the US Marines are expanding their expeditionary reach.
Background: The World in 2015 – A summary of the CIA’s Global Trends 2015 report, on what the world will look like in 15 years, and what threats the US will face.
Indian Navy – While indigineous attempts to build a nuclear submarine are still a dream, India may attempt to again lease a nuclear submarine from Russia in order to perserve its nuclear know-how.
Chinese Navy – A well reasoned essay on why the Chinese can never successfully invade Taiwan.
Russian Navy – The Russian Navy has started shakedown tests on its 13th Akula-class nuclear attack submarine.
Canadian Navy HMCS Charlottetown will join the Truman battle group for its 6 month deployment, the 3rd time a Canadian vessel has served as an integrated member of a US battle group
US Navy – A review of Navy Secretary Danzig’s contributions.
Indian Navy – The Indian Navy will be setting up a Far Eastern Command, to aid its operations within the Indian Ocean.
Brazilian Navy – The Oberon-class submarine Tonelero sank at its moorings apparently due to a valve malfunction in the hydraulic system .
Royal Navy – It will take 12 months to repair all of the Royal Navy’s nuclear attack submarines which have cracks in their reactor piping.
Royal Australian Navy – The US has threatened to downgrade military co-operation with Australia if European companies obtain an ownership stake in the Australian Submarine Corporation.
French Navy – The French government has confirmed that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle’s propellers were poorly made.
US Navy – US Navy ships have resumed making short port calls in the Persian Gulf.
US Navy – The USS Harry S Truman canceled a port visit to Naples, Italy after a terrorist threat was made to the base.
US Navy – A review of the accomplishments of departing Navy Secretary Richard Danzig over the last 2 years.
Israeli Navy – Israel’s 3 new submarines are at sea, on alert for a possible war with Syria. The submarines are rumored to be armed with nuclear tipped missiles.
Indian Navy – The Indian Navy and Coast Guard will receive additional assests to help curb infiltration near Mandapam by Tamil Tigers.
Asia-Pacific – Background
US Coast Guard – US Coast Guard helicopters rescued thirty-four crew members from the cruise ship Seabreeze 1 off Virginia. There were no passengers onboard.
Royal Navy – The Royal Navy is being forced to mothball HMS Invincible because it does not have the funds to operate her.
Russian Navy – The Russian and US Navies will cooperate on developing joint submarine rescue teams.
Royal Australian Navy – Two Collins-class submarines reported for duty today, after being upgraded to limited operational capability. All 6 Collins-class submarines still need completely new combat systems.
US Navy – The Chagos islanders, who won the right to return to their homeland last month, will now sue the US for compensation for being illegally thrown off their island home. The US admits it cannot stop them from resettling on their home islands, but will not allow then to return to Diego Garcia itself.
US Marines – After another fatal crash of the MV-22 Osprey, the Marine Corps has grounded the aircraft again.
Taiwanese Navy – The Taiwanese Navy states that most of its S-2T Tracker antisubmarine warfare planes are not in flying condition any more and would like to replace them with P-3C Orions.
Nigerian Navy – The Nigerian Navy has been instructed to sink any vessels caught stealing oil from its oil export terminals.
Sri Lankan Navy – The Sri Lankan Navy celebrated its 50th birthday by commissioning 3 vessels – an off-shore patrol vessel and 2 deep sea patrol ships.
Royal Navy – Security will be beefed up at Faslane for the Trident force stationed there; the Royal Marine Fleet Marine Protection Group will be moving into new headquarters there in the spring.
Canadian Navy – Enforcing its sovereignty over Arctic territory will be costly for the Canadian military.
US Navy – The US Navy’s investigation into the USS Cole bombing has found that security was lax on the Cole.
Pacific – Background – The navies of Pacific states are beginning to cooperate to handle the non-traditional threats that their countries face.
Canadian Navy – As the size of its military force decreases, Canada is rapidly losing its ability to police its own sovereignty in the Arctic.
US Navy – Security is being tightened at Norfolk Naval Base.
French Navy – The problem with the propellors on the aircraft carrier Charles De Galle may be due to corruption in the French government.
Royal Navy – The Spanish government has asked the British government to remove the damaged nuclear attack submarine HMS Tireless from Gibraltar, the British have refused.
US Navy – More details about the buzzing of the USS Kitty Hawk by Russian aircraft.
US Coast Guard – The US Coast Guard has activated a reserve port security team to go to the Persian Gulf and secure a port there so US Navy ships can dock and give their crews shore leave. Since the bombing of the USS Cole, US Navy ships in the Gulf have been at sea continuously, with the exception of replenishment ships.
Indian Navy – The Chief of the Naval Staff of India has outlined two themes for the coming years: “building bridges of friendship across the seas” and “self reliance through indigenisation.”
US Navy Exercise Joint Endeavor North 2000 is a completely computer run exercise involving the US and Norwegian navies.
US Navy – First person accounts of the attack on the USS Cole.
Indonesia Navy – 37 Indonesia Navy ships are deployed around Papau to discourage its citizens from seeking independence.
Chinese Navy – The Chinese Navy will not attend the Indian International Fleet Review in February 2001.
Canadian Navy – The destroyer HMCS Huron will laid up for an indefinite time, as there are not enough sailors to man her.
Taiwanese Navy – Interesting insight into the acquisition mindset of the Taiwanese Navy – ” The less you do, the less mistakes you make.”
Indian Navy – Navy Day in India was celebrated with a display of Indian Navy firepower
Columbian Navy – The story behind the submarine being built by Columbian drug lords with Russian submariners’ help to smuggle drugs into the US.
Canadian Navy – HMCS Victoria, the first of the Upholder-class attack submarines transferred from the Royal Navy to the Canadian Navy, has been commissioned.
Yemen – Background – It now appears that those who attacked the USS Cole were veterans of the war in Afganistan.
Canadian Navy – The Halifax-class frigates will be updated to use the evolved Sea Sparrow missile.
Russian Navy – The Baltic Fleet will take to sea for only one exercise in 2001.
Indian Navy – The Indian Navy will commission 9 warships and 4 spy planes in 2001.
US Navy – The US Navy estimates it will cost $240 million to repair the USS Cole.
Russian Marines – the head of the Russian Marines reflects on combat lessons learned recently in Checnya.
Israeli Navy – The Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli Navy describes his plans for their 3 new Dolphin-class submarines.
Russian Navy – The Norwegian Navy’s timeline of the Kursk incident, and their lessons learned from it.
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