Kalibr-M a Protest Against US Withdrawing from INF Treaty
On October 20, 2018, citing Russian non-compliance, Trump announced that he was withdrawing the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear [Missile] Forces Treaty (INF).Putin announced on November 20, 2018...
View ArticleBallistic and Cruise Missiles in East Asia-West Pacific Theater
Hi KQNFollowing the latest article - looks like we're keeping this dialogue to ourselves, knowing that other potential commenters in the blogosphere don't want to be woken up during their Christmas...
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Candidates for the Kalibr-M Western Europe Buster
Following articles of January 9 and 10, 2019 on Russia's plan to build 4,500 km range, 1 tonne nuclear capable warhead, sea launched Kalibr-M cruise missiles. It is the nature of medium sized missiles...
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Watch Out MHI & KHI, China Warns(?) Those Helping Taiwan's Submarine Program
On January 14, 2019, Hua Chunying (above) (and see official CV) China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson issued an Answer ("A:") Warning (?) in response to a Question ("Q:") to countries (companies and...
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Update on India's SSBN and SLBM Evolution
(Diagram courtesy India's DRDO, H I Sutton and The Diplomat.)Submarine Matters has periodically provided updates on India's SSBNs and SLBMs since 2009.India’s Financial Express published an excellent...
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What my great-great-granfather Had to Go Through
Continuing on from Submarine Matters' My 1st Australian Ancestor was a "hard driving" Scottish Captain of January 3, 2019 below is a photo of Captain Begg, ship route map and Youtube of clipper ship...
View ArticleAustralia Sells "Classic" F/A-18 Hornets to Canada
The youtube (which starts talking 32 seconds in) was uploaded in July 2018 from a Canadian perspective. Although US-Canada relations have hit a slump, with Trump vowing to punish Canadians over...
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Possible SOSUS & RAP/FDS Arrays, Western Pacific - Indian Ocean
Thanks KQN for locating Owen R. Cote Jr.’s excellent article Invisible nuclear-armed submarines, or transparent oceans? Are ballistic missile submarines still the best deterrent for the United States?...
View ArticleChina's DF-26 "Guam and carrier killer" missiles strut their stuff
I’ve added further links, comments in brackets [...] for extra info and bolded to highlight some parts.Liu Zhen for China's Hong Kong South China Morning Post reportedJanuary 11th (updated 12th)...
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Chinese DF-21D and DF-26 Missile Accuracy
Drawing from KQN's and Josh's interesting comments of 29 January and 31 January 2019 respectively.The DF-26's accuracy improves with its manoeuvrable re-entry vehicle (in the terminal phase). It also...
View ArticleHypersonic Medium Range Boost-Glide Vehicles
A clear (July 3, 2018) discussion of hypersonic cruise missiles and boosted hypersonic glide vehicles. Will the physics of speed and the atmosphere causing overheating forever be an obstacle?---...
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Western & Russian Submarine Wake Detection Sensors including "SOKS"
This Russian Akula SSN is moving from right to left. The spikes towards the front of the fin/sail are probably wake detection sensors. These are known, in Russian, as System Obnarujenia Kilvaternovo...
View ArticleFrance's Barracuda SSN Submarine Launching in 2019 - Maybe
The launching of France's delayed (laid down 2007) first of class Barracuda-Suffren class SSN will free up a good part of Naval Group's design and construction labour force.So far the main obstacle has...
View ArticleTrump Meeting Kim in Vietnam - Where US Abandoned South Vietnam
Isn't it ironic that Kim and Trump are meeting in Vietnam of all places.In 1973 the US signalled to North Vietnam that US support of its ally, South Vietnam, was weakening.I wonder if South Koreans are...
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South Korea Providing Mixed Signals Prior to Next Trump-Kim Summit
An ageless cartoon: the risk of another North Korean attack and How Should The US Prevent It?---The Second Trump-Kim Denuclearization Summit (in Vietnam, February 27-28, 2019) shares all the...
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Some big problems doomed USS Fitzgerald before its fatal crash
Here is some fascinating reading reproduced by Business Insider Australia, February 9, 2019, on USS Fitzgerald's many problems before its 2017 collision. Problems in the US Navy were (are?) even worse...
View ArticleGood Youtube: Submarine food, gyms, Dear John letters, nav and collisions
As evey man and his dog has published today on the latest Australia-France submarine sign-off, squeezed in before the May 2019 Australian Election (remember that?) I'll comment on that tomorrow....
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Australian Government on Future Submarine Program SPA
COMMENTThis is a preliminary, for the record, post on what the current Coalition (noting yesterday’s news) Government of Australian Prime Minister Morrison said. This is regarding the February 11,...
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France's Naval Group About the Future Australian Submarine Program SPA
Following on from yesterday's article on what the Australian Govenment said about the ShortfinBarracuda Future Australian Submarine Program Strategic Partnering Agreement (SPA) iswhat French Government...
View ArticleCharacteristics of the German-Norwegian Type 212CD Submarine
The above Youtube is from Poland's Balt Military Expo 2018. At 1 minute in the Type 212CD is introduced by a senior ThyssenKrupp executive. (Youtube courtesy Xavier Vavasseur, Chief Editor, Navy...
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