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India's K-4 Deficiency
The most advanced vertical launch system (VLS) is a flexible system which can accommodate BrahMos, K-15, K-4, and the necessary longer range K-4+ (of 6,000+ km). India needs much longer range than K-4...
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Toward Stealth and Sea Denial: Submarine Modernization in East Asia
What technology might Singapore's 218SGs incorporate: fuel cell or Stirling AIP, Vertical Multi-Purpose Lock (VMPL) or Lithium-ion batteries? (Diagram courtesy of Globalsecurity)The following is...
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Navy SEAL and Submarine Capabilities
SEALs with rather thermal looking gear.No submarine (from SSKs, SSNs to SSGNs) would be complete without the ability to carry a SEAL Team. US SEAL Teams, commonly known as the Navy SEALs, are the US...
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More of INS Arihant Revealed - Strategic Update
Revealed on August 20, 2014 is INS Arihant's conventional sail, supporting diving planes, The sail is similar to US Ohio Class and Russian Delta class SSBNs. The small hump for SLBMs aft of Arihant's...
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Agni 6 (Agni VI) Why would India want to develop a 10,000 km Range ICBM?
The white lines represent the 10,000 km range (with one tonne warhead?) of an Agni 6 (Agni VI) ICBM. The minimum and main Indian objective is the ability for at least one Agni 6 to deploy 3 tonnes of...
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James Holmes - A Strategy for Submarines
A Virginia class SSN looking dark and dangerous.The Virginia class SSN, at up to 8,000 tons, is slightly longer than the Los Angeles and Seawolf SSNs but much smaller than the four SSBNs in the...
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Submarine export trends - Japan's Soryu
Like a Western political rally this Soryu launch is colorful. Highly likely they will remove the bunting before sailing :)---An almost complete (it misses Israel's Dolphin sub) set of HDW designed and...
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Supersonic air travel - Advanced Research
Supersonic passanger travel (or supersonic transport (SST) remains an economic and technical challenge - with little progress since the Concorde. The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was one of only two...
View ArticleAustralia's Future Submarine - Swedish vs German Claims
This article, Saab Story: Sweden's New Submarines, June 10, 2014, http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/saab-story-swedens-new-submarines-024760/ appears to have been inserted by Saab and maybe the...
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Australia's Future Sub likely to be Japan's Soryu, outsiders are Germany or...
An Australia's ABC News article has reported, September 8, 2014, that Japan (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasasiki Heavy Industries) remains the front-runner to build Australia's future new...
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CIA's Operational Problems in Iraq
A hazard of life in IraqOnly in American would a serious academic website like IntelNews publish an article about CIA officers in Iraq having problems talking to their sources, See the following...
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Scottish Independence Chances as at 13 Sept 2014
Don't Split!The referendum-vote on whether Scotland should become independent is on Thursday, 18 September 2014.The current chances of Independence (reflecting bookies estimates as at 13 September)...
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Australia in Iraq Boosting Revenge Terrorism?
Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott - making a major error by leading Australia into Iraq?The government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's contention that Australia returning to Iraq will not increase...
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Benefits of SSKs for US, Soryus and Collins mentioned
USS Blueback. America's last conventional submarine (SSK), decommissioned in 1990 after appearing in the movie The Hunt for Red October.---A Chinese Type 093 Shang Class SSN. A major opponent to...
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Airstrikes on IS in Syria - the grim theatre
Sources: Pentagon, CENTCOM, the Institute for the Study of War, the Long War Journal, news reports. The Washington Post.An article I published today on On Line Opinion. The thread for the article is...
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Chinese SSBNs including Shipyards and Bases
Below is an excellent article of April 25, 2014 by Hans M. Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). The value of the article concerning Chinese SSBN issues is enhanced by its detailed...
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Japan's Soryu - less promising Future Submarine (FSM) for Australia
Immediately below is a diagram of Australia's Collins submarine (launched 1993)---------------The rapid growth and turnover of Japan's 3 most recent submarines (shaded) over the last 25 years. At...
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Hong Kong protests: cruisen for a bruisen Tiananmen?
Huge protests in Hong Kong. In the foreground are 2 official-up-to-1997 British-Hong Kong colonial (Chinese dragon - British lion) flags - defiantly displayed by the students.---Main site of the...
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First Chinese Submarine Visit to Indian Ocean? Sri Lanka Buying Song Subs?
A Type 039 "Song" Class submarine (SSK). Wholly developed in China with a modern tear drop hull. James Brown, for the Lowy Institute of Australia's Interpreter has written an excellent article of...
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China launches more surveillance satellites
A Long March-4B rocket carrying the Yaogan-21 satellite launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC), known as "Base 25" in Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, North China.---A 2012 Long March-4B...
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