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What Taiwan's future submarines could be used for - Part 2.
Taiwan's submarine squadron is very much orientated to defend against a Chinese seaborne invasion or at least a naval blockade. The shortest China to Taiwan distance is the 100 nautical mile wide...
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Coalition Election Win Good for Naval Group Submarine Build in South Australia
The win for Australia's Morrison Coalition Government over Shorten's Labor Party on May 18, 2019 means continuity for Australia's future Attack class submarine project with Naval Group remaining main...
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Can failed election candidate ex-General Subianto Rule Indonesia by Martial...
Will the Indonesian Army step in to restore order in riot torn Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital? Can former General Prabowo Subianto, who failed to win the Presidental Election exploit this?On May 21, 2019...
View ArticleUS's Zero-Yield Nuclear Tests - Russia Blamed for Doing Similar?
Lieutenant General Robert Paul Ashley Jr, Director, US DIA, is not saying much when he assertedlate May 2019:"The United States believes that Russia probably is not adhering to its nuclear testing...
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Osborne Naval Shipyard, Adelaide - Security Observations
Aerial view of part of Osborne Naval (Ship and Submarine) Yard, Adelaide, South Australia. Osborne and North Haven residential suburbs can be seen at left upper corner. (Photo courtesy Ship Technology...
View ArticleLithium-ion Batteries May Make Australia's Attack-class Submarines Superior
Australia's Derek Woolner and David Glynne Jones have written an excellent article for The Strategist. That is "Future-proofing the Attack class (part 1): propulsion and endurance" June 14, 2019 - at...
View ArticleUnlikely Brazil transfer of Tupi submarines to Argentina will work
There are so many obstacles to Brazil's offer of old Tupi Type 209 submarines to Argentina that the deal may well not come off as planned.So Santiago Rivas, for Jane's Defence Weekly, June 10, 2019,...
View ArticlePete's Poetry Published......Here!
MOVE TO ADELAIDE? (where the new subs will be built)Two wretched days driveGood sense deniedKeep awakeStay aliveLong, lonely roadSleep interruptedNavigation modeSignal corruptedInland drought...
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Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program: Site-Meter "Hacking" Iranian Interest
Map of Iran's highest priority nuclear facilities. This includes the research centers at Tehran and Isfahan/Esfahan (from which Submarine Matters' site-meter picked up Iranian reader interest in...
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Might India's 1950s SSN Building Dream Come True by 2050?
India has, since the 1950s [A],been talking about building nuclear attack submarines (SSNs). Their principal mission would be to scour the seas for enemy (mainly Pakistani and Chinese attack)...
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Japan's Kamikaze class 29SS Future Submarine
With the Covert Shores - Popular Mechanics articles yesterday what can we learn about Japan's Future Submarine 29SS?:29SS (see Table below) will be the lead boat in the new Japanese Kamikaze (神風 -...
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Japan's Kamikaze Klasse (29SS) Future Submarines
With the Covert Shores - Popular Mechanics articles yesterday what can we learn about Japan's Future Submarine class, classified 29SS?:29SS (see Table below) with a little more color, will be the lead...
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Coming Military Crackdown in Hong Kong
The radical rioters who stormed the Hong Kong Parliament in the past 12 hours (Youtube above) are reminiscent of the hopeful heroes who sat in Tiananmen Square in 1989. The world press are fooling...
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Fatal Fire on Russian Nuclear Spy Submarine "Losharick"
On July 3, 2019 the Australian Government owned ABC News reported a fatal fire on the Russian nuclear spy submarine Losharick.PETE COMMENTAs well as research the Losharick is a spy submarine, which...
View Article24 or 36 Australian conventional submarines anyone?
Politicians and the public can count. So radically multiplying Australian conventional submarine numbers creates reader interest. Calls to radically multiply Australian submarine numbers and other...
View ArticlePete's Foggy Friday Poetical Affirmations
THO I VOTED LABOR...A blessing not to see Shorty'sSad little face on TVShorten nameShort in luckFeet with flippersRuns like duck....Albo-lutelyOf Hawkie's funereal raptureHe was a man short in...
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Dry "Launch" of France's First Barracuda/Suffren SSN - K15 Reactor?
On July 12, 2019 (Naval Group advises) a ceremony, presided over by French President Macron (above), "launched" the first Barracuda named Suffren. Suffren is the first of 6 Barracuda SSNsbeing built in...
View ArticleAustralia's Future Submarines Likely To Keep Lead Acid Batteries.
Australian submarine expert Derek Woolner and Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) expert David Glynne Jones have warned that Australia’s future Attack-class submarines could be inferior on commissioning in the...
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Losharik's Intentional Flooding and Functions
Many readers would be aware that on July 1, 2019, 14 of Losharik’s estimated 19 crew were killed in a fire (burns, blast, smoke inhalation) as Losharik was in the process of docking in Orenburg’s belly...
View ArticleTeaching the Russian S-400 to detect F-35s
Franz-Stefan Gady has written an excellent article at the The Diplomat paysite. The article is an interview with Mauro Gilli, a senior researcher in military technology and international security at...
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