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Liaoning carrier group 2 - Submarine Activity & Air Wing
Map A. The Liaoning Carrier Group left the North Sea Fleet HQ Base (Qingdao) - followed the red line through the Miyako Strait - south, east of Taiwan - then moved west across the Bashi Channel (Luzon...
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Indonesia's Military Chief Nurmantyo - New Javanese General Strongman?
Indonesia's Chief of the Armed Forces (TNI) General Gatot Nurmantyo running his own Indonesian political campaign, notionally against Australia.---In early January 2017 Javanese born Indonesian Armed...
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Liaoning carrier goup 3 - Regional Competition and Surface Escorts.
Cutaway, highlighting the weapons, of the Chinese Type 052D Luyang III class destroyer. Its technical quality (complete with 64 VLS and new AESA radar) may be creeping up on the US Arleigh Burke class...
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Clawing back savings may not apply to all.
A reader, known as Che Anonymous (mugshot above), provided the following at the end of the holidays:Proposition 1 - We need twice as many submarines ie. 12.Proposition 2 - The 12 should be "regionally...
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Japan selling its P-1 and C-2 military aircraft to NZ at low prices?
As Japan is new to being an actual seller of military aircraft early success may be elusive. However the desire to seal a deal with New Zealand may mean Japan will offer the P-1 (above) and C-2 (below)...
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January 2017 Report - TRUMP NOT THAT BAD
Trump "astonishingly excellent" - says one.---Hi DonorsI've just emailed Submarine Matters'January 2017 Report TRUMP NOT THAT BAD out to you, as a WORD attachment. Please check your spam bin if you...
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Chinese Jet Intercepts an Australian Patrol Aircraft
Japan's Sankei News reports that a Chinese Shenyang J-11 air superiority fighter (above) on September 26, 2016 intercepted an Australian AP-3C Orion (below) while the Orion patrolled the South China...
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Japanese PM Abe in Australia Quietly Talking about Trump
Japanese Prime Minister Abe and Australian Prime Minister Turnbull from January 13 to 15, 2017 will likely discuss a coordinated approach to (about to be Inaugurated) President Trump.---1. Regarding...
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Missile Threat to Japan Perilous - Talks
Japan's three tiered anti-missile defense program. The main threat is nuclear tipped ballistic missiles from North Korea and to a lesser extent China. Japan hasn't decided whether it will, or can,...
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Chinese Power Projection to Second Island Chain
Chinese Strategic ExpansionChina's warships are restricted by geography and late strategic entry (no Spanish-American War = an 1899 head start) to the bastion of the first island chain. Perhaps a...
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Liaoning carrier group 4 - inferior to any Nimitz group
Macau Daily Times, Jan 16, 2017, and other sources have provided comparisons of key traits of China’s Liaoning ski-jump carrier group versus US Nimitz carrier groups (See larger image here. Image via...
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Chinese Intelligence Presence in Australia [New Comment]
COMMENT China’s Military-PLA Intelligence and also Civilian Intelligence (Ministry of State Security (MSS)) are doing an excellent job in Australia. This includes human intelligence (HUMINT) Case...
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Threats to Liaoning carrier group 5 - begs question of uses.
Now or soon AUVs will be able to identify Liaoning’s unique electronic and sound signatures. The AUV could then work through a transmitting float-to-satellite to cue long range missiles or...
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Liaoning carrier group 6 - Uses for Liaoning.
As well as the J-15 fighters Liaoning can probably take the usefully medium-large Z-18 helicopter. See much larger Liaoning image.---Liaoning and its exercises with its escort group are a gradual...
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Lithium-ion Battery Arrangements Planned for New Japanese Submarines
Outline of a Lithium-ion Battery for a Japanese submarine. This is from a January 2017 article on wispywood2344’s blog, at http://blog.livedoor.jp/wispywood2344/archives/2017-01.html .---Submarine...
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Light-attack jet - a good McCain counter-insurgency idea?
The Bell Textron Scorpion light-attack jet may be ideal for the low threat counter-insurgency/terrorism missions the US and allies are fighting in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan (Photo/diagram courtesy...
View ArticleYUAN Submarine Table - China's Type 039A/B, 041. Work in progress.
The following Table, based on frequently contradictory Sources, is a work in progress. The ultimate, probably, unattainable aim, is to build a table as complete as the SORYU TABLE. YUAN SUBMARINE...
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YUAN 2 - Naming first principles. Numbers not Dynasty Win.
Emperor Kublai Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty in 1271 but doesn't represent a submarine class terribly well.---Following yesterday’s YUAN 1 article it struck me that it seems useful to look at the name...
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McCain's Medium Carrier Luxury
Additional suggestions to light attack aircraft have been made in the January 16, 2017, "McCain" White Paper (about 10 MB, PDF) of the US Senate Armed Services Committee. This is for medium...
View ArticlePoland Signalling a DCNS or TKMS Submarine Preference
Submarine acquisitions are multi-year processes. Here is a DCNS - (Xavier of) Navy Recognition video, uploaded September 2, 2015, responding to the Polish sub replacement competition.---Poland is...
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