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Japan's Submarine Deployment Areas, Straits and Ports
Japan's major straits (with possible patrol details below)---[According to this open source] During the Cold War the Japanese Navy's active 16 submarines mainly watched three straits for Russian subs....
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Japan providing small aircraft & patrol boats to the Philippines
Will the 10 x 40 meter class patrol boats Japan is building for the Philippines be developments of the Bizan (aka Raizan) class? PS 07 (above) and PS 06 (below). Weighs 200 tons ("PS" = Patrol Vessel...
View ArticleLife inside a Russian built Kilo class submarine
Just above is an excellent Indian submarine Youtube. It is about INS Sindhukirti a Kilo (called Sindhughosh class in India) submarine designed and built by Russian shipbuilder Sevmash.Looking at the...
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Long range torpedos and anti-ship missiles
The SEAHAKE Mod 4 ER long-range torpedo (aka DM2A4) (above and below) has a range of at least 140 km. It features an advanced electrical propulsion system and a fiber optic cable for torpedo guidance...
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South Korea delivering Golden Eagle light fighter-attack aircraft to the...
South Korean Air Force T-50 Golden Eagle (with public relations paint job) (Photo courtesy Dmitriy Pichugin (Photos at airliners.net) via Flugzeug)---One of two newly acquired FA-50PH fighter jets is...
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A Vertical Launch System for Future Australian Submarines
For a 4,000 ton (surfaced) future Australian submarine design (weight likely required/expected under the Competitive Evaluation Process (CEP)) an option for a vertical launch system (VLS) may be...
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Japanese Concerns About Philippine Alliance Building and Providing Military Aid
It appears Japanese Prime Minister Abe (right), Defence Minister Nakatani (center) and Foreign Minister Kishida (left) may be alliance building with the Philippines too quickly. Naval weapons or even...
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Comments on Russia's (possibly) nuclear armed, nuclear propelled torpedo.
The following diagrams and torpedo and submarine specifications are from H I Sutton's excellent Covert Shores website . H I Sutton's specific post with H I Sutton's full analysis is "Analysis -...
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Prime Minister Turnbull Likely Making "Lightning" December 2015 Visit to Japan
The launch of the second Soryu class submarine (502) in 2008. If Japan wins the submarine for Australia may have the temporary name of "Super Soryu" (a submarine with the major external difference of...
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Women in US subs seemed promising - But then...
Pete's CommentWhile the most controversial issue for the UK RN seems to be Trident submarine replacements, women in submarines seems the USN's most public submarine issue.ARTICLES24 women "pioneering...
View ArticleMother Ships and Rocket Planes - Part One
Rockets have nothing to do with submarines but they're exciting and dangerous - be they government sponsored or corporate.The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft....
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Putin's Submarine Cruise Missile Party
Its suspicious, in this Youtube footage, why the camera is so far from the launches. The footage in the above Youtube and this one - (freeze video frame at 6 seconds) seems to show that the submarine...
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Japanese Whale Killing "Culture" Threatens Japanese Submarine Bid
A mother whale and its baby killed by Japanese explosive harpoons are hauled aboard a Japanese whale factory ship in waters to the south of Australia. Japanese "scientific" whaling is the most divisive...
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China's bases in the Indian Ocean - New Djibouti Base
The European Union (EU) welcomed China's support against the Somalian pirate scourge.---In 2010 the Chief of Staff of European Union Naval Forces for Somalia (EUNAVFOR Somalia), …told reporters that...
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Rocket Planes Part Two - Neil Armstrong and Chuck Yeager
Neil Armstrong, then a Test Pilot, next to his X-15 edge of space rocket plane around 1962. That was 7 years before his captaining the July 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. (Photo courtesy Uncover...
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China - Australia Defence Relations Closer - Meetings
Chief of the General Staff, PLA, General Fang Fenghui and Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne at meeting.Visit to Australia by China’s General Fang Fenghui2 December 2015 | AUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT...
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Tomahawk Cruise Missiles and Friends Hitting ISIS
All the recent interest in the Russian Kalibr forgets the West's much longer history of hitting insurgents and conventional armies with Tomahawk cruise missiles. Not only missiles but ground attack...
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Turkish Subs Great At Blockading Russian Black Sea Fleet
Current tensions between Russia and Turkey would be making Turkish naval commanders tense. Turkey's medium sized submarine service (13 subs) may give Turkey a useful intelligence tool and make some...
View ArticleThe French DCNS Bid for Future Australian Submarine
The "SMX Ocean" concept is closer to realisation as the Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A."Australia’s Future SubmarinesThe Future Submarine Program will deliver Australian an affordable, regionally...
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Canadian Defence Concerns with some concentration on Submarines
Click here to vastly expand map (Courtesy Melting The Ice). Map of Canada with its 370 km Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundary being a particular interest to guard - even from American fisherman and...
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