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The S-80 Plus to Be the 1st 3,000+ tonne EuroSub Launched
Artwork of the future S-80 Plus courtesy maritimeherald.com. Estimated range/speed 10,000nm at 10 knots snorting. Has 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with total of 20? HWT DM2A4 torpedoes, Harpoon missiles,...
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Chinese Navy's New J-15D Electronic Attack Carrier Aircraft
The photo at top may be the J-15D Chinese carrier aircraft or the very similar J-16D Chinese airforce aircraft. These perform electronic attack or jamming an art first perfected by the UK and then US...
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Chinese Bomber(s) Land on South China Sea Island: US Feigns Surprise
COMMENTChina has gone one more step in indicating it can deploy bomber power, in a theatrical way, deep into the South China Sea. This puts some more Western ships and Southeast Asian capitals, like...
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Chinese Bombers Threatening Because they Are highly Visible
Pete's CommentsSo China has publicized the ability of its H-6K bombers to very temporarily operate (ie. land and takeoff) from Woody Island is more symbolic of visible power projection into the South...
View ArticleA Disarmed North Korea can expect Another Foreign Invasion
Causes, effects and doctrines are subtle. Before the sure handed statesman Trump and Kim meet or don't meet in Singapore on June 12, 2018 history needs recalling. Historical mentions of Korea are...
View ArticleCollapse of the US - North Korea Talks: Told Ya So!
On May 24, 2016 Trump announced the cancellation of the US - (Denuclearization of) North Korea Summit which was to be held in Singapore on June 12, 2018. A 2017, page 9 Pentagon analysis concurs (or...
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Doubts about Zircon hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile
The Zircon (Graphic courtesy via Russian website.)I don't know whether the future (late 2020s) Zircon missile proves Russia can solve the heat buildup barrier to sustained hypersonic flight in the...
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Excellent Covert Shores Article on Soviet/Russian Submarine Activity
H I Sutton at Covert Shores regularly publishes interesting articles on submarines. For example:Increase in #Russian Submarine Activity of 22 May...
View ArticleDoc Declassified May 2018, Naval Group's "Australian Industry Plan" LIBs?
Senator Rex Patrick, writing in Australia’s useful website DEFENCE CONNECT, reports https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/maritime-antisub/2322-a-french-led-lithium-revolution-for-australia: “Naval Group’s...
View ArticlePick a Number. 100% Rise in Australian Future Sub estimate to $100 Billion
Andrew Tillett for The Australian Financial Review (AFR), May 29, 2018 reports:“$100 billion babies: Defence reveals true cost of new submarines for taxpayers” "Taxpayers will spend $100 billion to...
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A Future Australian-Singaporean Rocket May Provide Nuclear Capability
COMMENTAs the US Government sends out mixed, often contradictory, signals to allies and opponents, more countries are hedging with research into components maybe for future nuclear capabilities. For...
View ArticleRussian intelligence nurtured Snowden then Trump
Thought for the day.Putin, an ex intelligence officer, sets the overall strategy for Russian foreign policy including Russian intelligence. Russian intelligence operates on the established...
View ArticleAustralia not attending US/India/Japan Naval Exercise MALABAR 2018
COMMENTAustralia has chosen not to participate in Exercise MALABAR 2018. This is very likely due to Australia’s desire not to offend its largest trading partner and regional strategic threat, China....
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2015 News: Damen & Saab Long Been Talking Netherlands Submarine Replacement
COMMENTThe June 1, 2018 Damen-Saab Netherlands submarine replacement design details via Dutch site De Telegraaf (then via other Dutch sites and English language sites) seems to be old news, little...
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Why Submarine Matters quiet since June 11, 2018 - Dad’s Death
Dad in the 1970s.1. Below is Dad's Obituary, by Major General (retired) Peter Phillips AO MC, in the Sydney Morning Herald (online) and (a very similar version) in full page hardcopy...
View ArticleTaiwan's New Submarine Project Wildly Underfunded and Optimistic
It is interesting that countries-companies have been variously reported as submitting submarine designs for Taiwan’s (once again) US endorsed submarine building project. These may be:- 1 or 2 Indian...
View ArticleMonths or Years? Massive US-Indian Counter-Terrorism Operation Revealed
In an operation smaller than the much larger US operation that monitored Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda guests in Abbottabad, Pakistan, from 2005 to 2011 (then international exploitation of the...
View ArticleSpain's new S-80 Plus submarine 'too big for its dock'
Mainly see https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44871788Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-80-class_submarinefor the S-80’s broader problems and specs.
View ArticleChina & Russia Fear Islamic Terrorism as much as West Does
INTELNEWS on July 11, 2018 reports:"Intelligence directors from Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan met on Tuesday to discuss regional cooperation with particular reference to combating the Islamic State...
View ArticleTrump’s Constant Indiscreet Tweets Aid Hostile Intelligence Agencies
INTELNEWS, July 3, 2018, reports:"...according to former Central Intelligence Agency analyst Nada Bakos, foreign intelligence agencies are among those paying close attention to the president’s...
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