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Marines on USS Boxer JAMMED Iranian Drone to down it
It has now been reported Marines on amphibious assault carrier USS Boxer used "Marine Corps' Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS) electronic jamming equipment mounted on a Polaris MRZR...
View ArticleCanada installs Chinese underwater sensors near US Kitsap nuclear submarine base
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2169474/canada-installs-chinese-underwater-monitoring-devices-next-us
View ArticleOne’s first spy novel not hurt by Philby surname, but...
This concerns publication of a first spy novel, titled The Most Difficult Thing, by one of Kim Philby's descendants.Having Kim's surname probably wouldn't hurt sales of one's first spy novel.Kim Philby...
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Vast Western intelligence gathering against Iran
Following mounting Iranian drone and naval activity against Western shipping since May 2019 (map above courtesy UK Daily Mail)) the UK and US are deploying a wide range of intelligence collection...
View ArticleBoris Winning Poetry of Power
Putin, Xi, Boris, TrumpConservatives all, rightwing rumpLeft lost in leftwing waltzWeak politicians despair in schmaltzWho’s to label rightwing wrongWhen art of politics is cynical strongAll causes:...
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Iranian submarine life expectancy in war very short
As indicated on July 24, 2019 Iran's main naval base is at Bandar Abbas just inside the Strait of Hormuz. See map above. But Bandar Abbas is at a chokepoint easily blockaded by US and UK SSNs and...
View ArticleCOSMOS summary piece on Orca/Echo Voyager XLUUV
Submarine Matters will comment on less known possible functions of the Orca Program tomorrow.Meanwhile it is useful to read Drew Turney's excellent article for COSMOS: THE SCIENCE OF EVERYTHING. That...
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India's old, symbolic, submarine, INS Sindhuvir, to Myanmar
India is discussing with Myanmar the part symbolic transfer, perhaps in late 2019, of one of India’s Russian-made Kilo-class SSKs to Myanmar's Navy. To achieve a late 2019 transfer, India will need to...
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PLA Threatens Tiananmen Square...Against Hong Kong Protesters
On July 2, 2019 I wrote an article "Coming Military Crackdown in Hong Kong?" which included:"So damage to the Hong Kong Parliament may provide a pretext for a paramilitary police and then a military...
View ArticleComment on The Costs of an Independent Nuclear Submarine Deterrent
See former UK Royal Navy nuclear submarine Commander, Robert Forsyth's 's excellent essay of July 31, 2019 at ASPI's The Strategist website, at...
View ArticleSubmarine Matters and Pete at the moment.
You may have noticed I've been writing little on this Submarine Matters lately.The main impetus for writing over the years has been comments below each article and emails more directly to me from those...
View ArticleWhat Andrew Hastie MP actually wrote about the China threat.
So what did Andrew Hastie actually say about (what a wide range of ill-informed pundits in Australia claim) was a comparison of China with Nazi Germany? Well the reality is less dramatic than the...
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Hong Kong's Government appears to be closing Hong Kong Airport
PETE COMMENTIn a serious escalation of the Hong Kong Independence Protests the Hong Kong Government appears to be closing Hong Kong Airport. It is not yet known whether Hong Kong/China paramilitary...
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Russia's White Sea Explosion Releases Radiation. Evacuation.
On Thursday night, August 8, 2019, an explosion (Youtube below and here) occurred at Nyonoksa naval rocket/missile test site on the White Sea coast (map below) in extreme northwest Russia. This killed...
View ArticleExcellent StrategyPage article on Barracuda Sub & Attack class
Strategy Pagehas penned an excellent article of August 14, 2019,at https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20190814.aspx:“Submarines: BarracudaOn July 12 [2019] the first of six new French...
View ArticleRick Joe China aircraft expert: China J-20 Stealth Fighter's Status
On The Diplomat (paysite) see https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/chinas-j-20-stealth-fighter-today-and-into-the-2020s/
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Claim Russia's Nuclear Cruise Missile 9M730 Skyfall is "SUBSONIC"
PETE COMMENTFlollowing on from the August 14, 2019 article on Russia's failed liquid rocket fuel and nuclear powered cruise missile booster+engine test at Nyonoksa. The missile's Russian designations...
View ArticleExcellent Indian Ocean Strategic View on US, India, China
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2019/08/18/yahapalana-and-the-republic-of-china-part-9/
View ArticleSmall Modular Reactors No Quick Nuclear Path for Australia
There is an ongoing debate in Australia to finally adopt nuclear reactors for "carbon free" electricity needs. This debate is heightened by reactor companies (eg. GE Hitachi and Rolls-Royce) marketing...
View ArticleThe Reactor Blew Up during the Nyonoksa Skyfall Missile Test
On from Submarine Matters' Claim Russia's Nuclear Cruise Missile 9M730 Skyfall is "SUBSONIC" of August 18, 2019 on the Skyfall nuclear-powered cruise missile test explosion Ryan Pickrell for Business...
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