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MH370? Australian and othe Aircraft Checking Pieces of Debris in Indian Ocean
Click on image to expand.There are initial reports of a possible find of parts of MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, far off the Australian coast. The suspected debris point is yellow with diagonal...
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Chinese Satellite Gaofen-1 Possible Sighting of MH370 Debris
Chinese satellite (Gaofen-1) sighting (above) on March 22-23, 2014 of possible MH370 debris. Compare with similar sized objects in same area of ocean as the US DigitalGlobe satellite sighting (below)...
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Evolved Collins Sub - Most Likely SEA 1000 Option
Would an evolved Collins, or any type of future SSK have any chance of chasing down Chinese SSNs, like the Type 093 Shang Class submarine above?---------On the long term issue of Australia's future...
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Espionage - Sumer Khan: Alleged agent for Pakistan.
A nuclear capable Mirage 2000 at Iron FistSumer Khan (in centre)Further Update of 2014 on the Sumer Khan case. India's Sunday Standard, March 2, 2014 reported...
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MH370: Australia building better relations with China
Grieving relatives in front of the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing.---------The two Chinese IL-76 transport-search aircraft on the tarmac at RAAF Pearce Air Force Base - just north of Perth in Western...
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Chinese Fleet Searching for MH370
The 20,000 tone JinggangShan, Type 071 amphibious transport dock - part of China's MH370 search fleet.Previous and current search area for MH370 debris - as at March 31, 2014. (map courtesy...
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UK Nuclear Sub Joins MH370 Search
UK nuclear propelled attack submarine (SSN) HMS Tireless probably at Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde in Scotland.---HMS Tireless inside. No VLS - its Tomahawks are launched from its horizontal...
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Russian Conventional Submarine Development to Future Kalina Class
AIP Amur 1650 (export name of the larger version of 4th generation Lada Class) compared to the HDW 214. The Amur-Lada may be the closest representation available of what the Kalina may look like....
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Stirling AIP on Chinese Type 041 Yuan Submarine
The Stirling AIP of the type fitted to Kockum's submarines including the Stirling Class (Photos courtesy of...
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Thirteen Hundred US Marines Visiting Australia
A marine in the Australian desert sporting an M-32 grenade launcher.--The following is my article published on Australia's On Line Opinion today, at...
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Swedish and German Submarine Delegations in Australia
Anders Carp of Vice President Saab (on left) promoting Swedish submarines for Australia--Hans-Christoph Atzpodien, Chairman TKMS, promoting German submarines.The corporate battle between Sweden-Saab...
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Other sites deal with the future Australian Submarine (SEA 1000) Debate
The news feed on the Australian Submarine Institute's website at http://www.submarineinstitute.com/ or its RSS at http://www.submarineinstitute.com/RSS-News-Feed-Submarine-Institute-of-Australia.rss...
View ArticleA26 Program "terminated", Now Becoming "Next Generation Submarine" (NGS)
MHalblaub kindly alerted me to an article of April 14, 2014, by the Editors of The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's (ASPI's) blog The Strategist at...
View ArticleCyber Warfare, Sigint "Maturity" in Some Asia-Pacific Countries
To an extent Chinese state media revealed some of the PLA's cyber warfare capabilities. Its unlikely the cyber warriors depicted above would regularly wear their helmets to work. China may have the 2nd...
View ArticleSweden's Submarine Export Behaviour
The Gotland Class sub leased to US.An instructor for Collins Class cryptologic systems explains his job.---With all the controversy of Saab, TKMS (and related HDW) in the news its timely to recall...
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Saab Eyes Australian Submarine Industry
The Saab Gripen with standard camouflage? poised to shoot down Putin's Flankers.MaritimeSecurity.Asia published the following article on April 20, 2014 which, in part, discusses Saab's possible...
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Future Argentinian Nuclear Propelled Submarine?
Argentina has two TR-1700 Santa Cruz class submarines which are large 2,200 tonne derivatives of the Type 209 (Photo courtesy http://www.military-today.com/navy/santa_cruz_class.htm). The two were...
View ArticleAustralia Future Submarines To Be Slow
Australia future submarine decision making process is at the very basic stage of what do we want, when and why? The when is that the usual complex decision making cycle will mean the first of the new...
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Ukraine - Can Anything Save It?
Russian forces deployed in early May 2014 for a possible invasion of part or all of Ukraine. Click on map to expand to full size. Map courtesy of the Royal Unitied Services Institute (RUSI) reproduced...
View ArticleIndia's March 2014 K-4 SLBM Pontoon Test
Ankit Panda for The Diplomat, May 13, 2014 wrote the following article: http://thediplomat.com/2014/05/india-inches-closer-to-credible-nuclear-triad-with-k-4-slbm-test/India Inches Closer to Credible...
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