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Naval Group's New Intermediate Frigat (FTI) - Belharra Design: 5 Ships on Order
COMMENTThe sleek, stealthy configuration and other traits of the FTI-Belharra frigate (below) may influence Australia's Future Frigate SEA 5000 Project. This is particularly the case if a future...
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The Origins of Easter. Even a Submarine
A very rare Easter Submarine. (Courtesy "Kouzla s čokoládou" (in Czech) or "Chocolate Spells" (in English ) Femina via pinterest)---Happy Easter Everyone! Easter, held in late March or early April each...
View ArticleRussian Design and Engine Institutes - TABLES 6 and 7
Anonymous in early March 2018 provided a mass of information about Russian designing and engine building research institutes. Frequent use of Ctrl + F for keyword search may help users.Russian Design...
View ArticleRussian Design and Engine Institutes - TABLES 4 and 5
Table 4 Russian engine manufacturers: new engines & exportNew engineAddressAt the Aviation and Space Salon Max-2015, Russian developers showed a modern engine PD-14. It is assumed that the engine...
View ArticleRussian Design and Engine Institutes - TABLES 1, 2 and 3.
Anonymous in early March 2018 kindly provided a mass of information (in table form) about Russian design and engine building research institutes. Blogger/Blogspot appears technically unable to...
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Australian farmers benefit from Trump's US versus China trade war
Comment: China, by its imposition of agricultural tariffs on the US, but not on Australia, can drive a type of economic wedge between important US and Australian market interests. While (loyal to the...
View ArticleNuclear Tipped Babur-3 Ambiguities and Dangers
Ankit Panda for The Diplomat (paysite) April 01, 2018 has made some useful points here regarding the second successful flight test of Pakistan's Babur-3 nuclear-capable submarine-launched cruise...
View ArticleRevised Table Comparing Iranian, Russian, German, French & Japanese Submarine...
Since Anonymous produced Table Comparing Russian, German, French & Japanese Submarine Diesels of March 15, 2018 Anonymous has added the Iranian Ghadir-class submarine and added and/or revised...
View ArticleRussian Built Kilo Submarines Exported to China - Propulsion
Russia has built and exported a total of 12 Kilo submarines to China since the early 1990s, including:- 2 original Kilos designated Project 877EKM, and- 10 Improved Kilo of Project 636 (including 2 x...
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Russian Navy and Export Kilo submarine issues & their diesels
KQN made interesting comments on April 6, 2018 concerning Russia's Kilo submarines and their diesels. Pete has added comments in square [...] brackets Comment is:"I think the main difference between...
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Russia Considers its Diesels for Kilo Project 636 "slightly inferior"
On April 7, 2018 Anonymous commented:The official details of Russia'D49 and D42 are introduced in [2] and [3]. JSC "Kolomensky Zavod" produces diesel engines on the basis of two standard sizes [1]:-...
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China's Alleged Basing Legitimate on Vanuatu Island Nation
Map courtesy Sydney Morning Herald---In the last 24 hours reports (see below) have been published about Vanuatu being in not completely verified preliminary talks with its main creditor, China, on...
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A Kilo Submarine's Impeller Tunnels (Internal Thrusters) Diagram Revealed *
Diagram 1. (Courtesy sourmasov(dot)eu) indicates the openings of the the starboard impeller tunnel in a Kilo 877's or 636's light hull.--- Diagram 2. A Kilo 877 or 636 turned vertically to display its...
View ArticleRussian submarines exhibited at Defexpo Chennai India April 11-14, 2018
MOSCOW, April 11. 2018 /TASS/ http://tass.com/defense/999002:"Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will demonstrate five projects of conventional submarines of various classes and water...
View ArticleSouth China Sea - Probing Short of Confrontation
The Chinese Hong Kong based South China Morning Post, April 12, 2018 reportsin part.Chinese navy stages double show of strength as US strike group drills in disputed South China Sea - PLA puts aircraft...
View ArticleDangerous Times 1. Mediterranean - US/UK-Russia - Probing Short of Confrontation
Business Insider Australia, April 12, 2018 reports regarding US preparations to fire Tomahawk missiles at Syria and Russia's show of force:“...Russia’s navy appears to have responded to President...
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How Could Taiwan Build A Submarine? Teardrop Solution.
After years of diplomatic inactivity the US has decided to license to Taiwan several major aspects of conventional (diesel-electric) submarine. The very low amount (maybe only around US$100 million)...
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Attacks on Syria Provided Unsurpassed Missile Testing Opportunities
Rarely do air and sea forces get the opportunity to test multi-million dollar missile systems in actual "fire in anger" conditions. US, UK and French missile strikes on Syrian targets on April 14, 2018...
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Comparing Kilo 877s with TKMS Type 212A
Further to Submarine Matters’ interest in Russian submarines Anonymous on April 13, 2018 provided the following data which Pete has put in the Table below.Comparison betweensubmarinesolder modelKilo...
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Naval Bases in Indo-Pacific - Vanuatu, Kanaky, Melanesian Spearhead Group
In relation to headlines last week that Vanuatu has been discussing with China the issue of building (a, or some) Chinese bases on Vanuatu. Vanuatu and China on Tuesday 17 April 2018 denied the base...
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