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The UK Trident SSBN Debate MAY be settled this year
UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon talks to journalist Kirsty Wark (who asks some searching questions). This is 6 minutes of UK Newsnightspecial on the future of the Trident SSBN. ---For years the UK...
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Submarine Trends since 1990 - Actually fewer nuclear.
The diagram/map above is "Changes in the global submarine market since 1990" in The Military Balance 2015 Chapter 2: Comparative defence statistics, pp: 21-28. (Courtesy the International Institute for...
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Donors Will Receive a Two Page Submarine Matters Report Per Month
Indonesia's Type 209, KRI Nagabanda, Pennant Number 403, in May 2016. This sub is due to be delivered from DSME shipyard, South Korea, to Indonesia in 2017. Indonesia's new submarines will be a major...
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US International Role Keeps Rebalance to Australia Way Below 2,500 Marine Target
2,500 Marines won't rotate to Australia in 2016 or 2017 - this may not happen until 2020 - if not later. The grand vision for US rebalancing to the southern Asia-Pacific (ie. Australia) discussed...
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CHART of Every American Combat Vehicle (air, land and sea)
Chart is, of course, too small above BUT clicking HERE takes you to a huge version. It was originally produced and is being sold in hardcopy by Pop Chart Lab which has many other great charts. Here is...
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A SeaWeb (US, Japan, Australia, India) Quadrilateral Developing
INTRODUCTIONA steady development of Internet writing on the all platform Western sea surveillance system SeaWeb (often referred to on Sub Matters) is becoming more specific.Two Australian Professors,...
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Part 2 - Undersea Webs - US-Japan-SE Asia-Indian Ocean SOSUS - 2005 on
The US-Japan "Fish Hook" SOSUS network. Map featured in the Ball and Tanter book The Tools of Owatatsumi (ANU Press, January 2015) Map 4, Page 54.---INTRODUCTIONThis continues Prasun K. Sengupta’s...
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Australian Government Reveals Why DCNS Won
Cutaway diagram of most of the future TKMS Type 216. Note there is space for a Vertical Multi Purpose Lock (VMPL) or two behind the sail. There is also the option of a Horizontal Multi Purpose Lock...
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Japanese Report: Key Japanese Companies Were Not Interested in Exporting the...
A Soryu submarine (left) and Oyashio class sub (right) are serviced at KHI's Kobe (Japan) submarine yard (Photo courtesy Kenichirou Akiyama in his Diamond Report, page 2).---On June 22, 2015 a...
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China's SeaWeb Undersea Surveillance Network
The HQ of each of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army - Navy (PLAN's) Fleets are indicated, along with ship and submarine numbers in each. The undersea surveillance network particularly protects major...
View ArticleMuch in doubt for arms projects & companies after July 2, 2016 Election
This is the once in a fortnight comment on submarine and shipbuilding issues in the runup to Australia's July 2, 2016 Federal Election. The table below compares two-party-preferred (2PP) polling (for...
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Report "Southeast Asian Submarine Developments" available to donors.
(Map courtesy US Centers for Environmental Information).---1. I have emailed the first Submarine Matters Special Report to donors.- Report subject is Southeast Asian Submarine Developments.- This...
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Serious Industrial issues for TKMS following DCNS's Aus Sub Win
The German Navy's sub Type 212A U36 at TKMS' Kiel Shipyard(Photo courtesy AP via n-tv(dot)de June 6, 2016)--This Submarine Matters article mainly draws on German media sources spotted by a friend....
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Nuclear Propulsion Advocated in Major Australian Document of June 7, 2016
Peter Jennings, Executive Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)--- The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has produced a strongly worded briefing paper:Agenda for...
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US dry submersible program – Russia Blazed The Way
Italy’s Giunio Santi Engineering (GSE) in cooperation with General Dynamics - Electric Boat is developing the acronym filled “GSE Trieste 'Button 5.60' - UOES3 dry-SDV” dry mini-sub (Photo courtesy H I...
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Funky Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and the SRVLs
In non-submarine news, several weeks ago the captain took control of UK aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, at Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland. The 65,000 to 71,000 tonne, conventionally propelled,...
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Many In Japanese Government Relieved Japan Did Not Win Submarine Bid
Both Prime Minister Abe (above) and MHI President, Shunichi Miyanaga (below) were/are deeply unhappy with Japan's loss in the submarine bid. But many in the Japanese Government are not grieving. In...
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An Abbott Defence Ministry May Offer Japan Hope
If (current) Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull wins the July 2, 2016 Election, with a likely reduced majority, post election ministerial rearrangements are highly likely. A reduced majority would weaken...
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Japanese Nuclear Propulsion 1 - The Mutsu Episode
Mutsu photo (Courtesy http://jolisfukyu.tokai-sc.jaea.go.jp/fukyu/tayu/ACT95E/06/0601.htm)---Mutsu Diagram (Courtesy) ---S has located a chapter in Japan's history that is surprising. That Japan...
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DCNS, ASC Putting Shortfin Build Partnership in Place
Pete's Comment - In about 2030 ASC will be launching Shortfins (faster, quieter, world class, bold and cutting edge) maintaining ASC's Collins and Air Warfare Destroyer (above) standards. (Photo...
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