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.more…
Monthly Archives:: May 2008
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.more…
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.more…
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.more…
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 Seamore…
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 [...]
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. more…
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.more…
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 [...]
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.more…
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.more…
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 [...]
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.more…
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.”more…
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.more…
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.more…
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.more…
Operations Other Than War – US Ships in Frustrating Wait Off Burma's Coast to Deliver Aid
VOA – Burma’s government is denying entry to helicopters and relief supplies from U.S. Navy ships waiting offshore, near the Irawaddy Delta. Relief groups say as many as two million people remain in desperate need of food, water, medicines and other relief supplies following the storm on May 3 that killed nearly 78,000 people.more…
French Navy – Burma Denounces Warship
Bangkok Post – The Burmese military junta showed signs of paranoia on Friday, denouncing a French naval ship packed with 1,500 tonnes of food aid, with aircraft capable of delivering it, as a “warship” standing off its coast. France said a demand to deliver the aid through Rangoon airport was nonsense.more…
Royal Navy – Defence chiefs have last-minute doubts about £4bn carriers
The Times – They were meant to be the pride and joy of Britainís 21st-century fleet, an emblem of its pre-eminence as a military and diplomatic power. But last night it emerged that the imminent announcement of the commissioning of two aircraft carriers at a total cost of £4 billion has left some of the [...]
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