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US Navy's Seaweb Undersea Warfare Network
(Diagram courtesy of the US Navy Undersea Warfare magazine http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_30/art.html )(Seaweb has many US government sponsors and foreign military connections. Official...
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More detail: Swedish raid on Kockums, Malmo on April 8, 2014
A Stirling engine retrofitted to Swedish submarine HMS Näcken. Photo courtesy of Kockums http://kockums.se/en/products-services/submarines/stirling-aip-system/stirling-aip-conversion/.---It appears the...
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Increasing Australian Interest in Japan's Soryu Submarine
Soryu class submarine being launched. Above submarine is the SS-502, the Unryu or Cloud Dragon.----------------A boppy commissioning(?) of Soryu SS-505, the Zuiryu or Auspicious Dragon. The video...
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Stevie Nicks still kicking, some major songs.
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born 1948) still going. Photo circa 1976. During her time in Fleetwood Mac (where she sings the three songs below) and in her extensive solo career Stevie has sold over...
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German Diesel Engines (and AIP?) for Chinese Submarines
Chinese submarines are becoming harder to detect. in part, due to low acoustic signatures of German supplied diesel engines on China's Song and Yuan class submarines.---Conventional submarines built by...
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List of Favourites Brazil 2014 World Cup
Above is the Brazilian final team in early June 2014 - see Photo courtesy of http://fansided.com/2014/06/05/world-cup-2014-brazil-final-team-rosters-starting-xi/#!V4Twp .Below are what appear to be the...
View ArticleAustralia's Future Submarine - Swedish vs German Claims
This article, Saab Story: Sweden's New Submarines, June 10, 2014, http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/saab-story-swedens-new-submarines-024760/ appears to have been inserted by Saab and maybe the...
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Iraq: the ISIS crisis
Something I had published on Australia's ON LINE opinion on Friday June 20, 2014 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=16422 indicating "The US is neither all-seeing nor all-powerful....
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CIA's Operational Problems in Iraq
A hazard of life in IraqOnly in American would a serious academic website like IntelNews publish an article about CIA officers in Iraq having problems talking to their sources, See the following...
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German Submarine Developments 1945-1960s - Work in Progress
Diagram of a Type XXI.---The evolution of postwar German designed submarines - starting with the HDW 201 at the bottom of the diagram.This study of German submarine developments is a work in progress...
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US influences on Australia's Future Submarine Selection Process
Some of the components of the Collins US made Combat System. All of the System's databases, work stations, sensors and US made weapons need to be squeezed into the Collins - see...
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Australian Counter-Terrorism Lawmaking
On June 4, 2014 Australia's ON LINE opinion published an article at http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=16460 that I wrote concerning laws and the perceived terrorist risks arising from...
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Australia may select Japanese Submarine
The Maritime Executive (MAREX) reported, July 9, 2014 that http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Australia-Inches-Closer-to-Japanese-Submarine-Deal-2014-07-09 : July 09, 2014Australia Inches Closer...
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Australia's Future Submarine - a $40 Billion Risk?
[The following is under copyright]The selection process to build 6 to 12 Australian future submarines involves many hurdles and pitfalls. It would be hugely wasteful for politicians, admirals and...
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Russian Military Intelligence and MH17 Shootdown
Pictured is Lieutenant Colonel Igor Bezler of the Russian military intelligence directorateGRU, who commands, or until yesterday, commanded the separatists who shot down MH17.Where MH17 was shot down....
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"Do It For Denmark!" I'm in Love With A Danish Goddess
I was going to write on submarines again today but got distracted. The lovely lass above in this clean youtube (sorry guys) is something that my Swedish and German commenters* can agree on: Denmark is...
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India's Amazing (future) 24 Submarines
Hindustan Shipyard (Visakhapatnam) The boom-gate is open but the guards are asleep. ---Hindustan Shipyard (Visakhapatnam) looking uncluttered and efficient. Note the submarine under construction below...
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Tamil Refugees: High Court of Australia Challenge
Tamil refugees have a hard time, not only in Australia.It would appear that the High Court of Australia shares concerns that the Government of Prime Minister Abbott has no right to make an inherently...
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Air Independent Propulsion - A Game Changer?
Hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell system.---MESMA closed-cycle steam turbine---Stirling-cycle heat engine with external combustion---Closed-cycle diesel engine?---Diesel-electric engine for submarine, which...
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Air independent propulsion (AIP) Technologies and Selection
If Australia selected an air independent propulsion (AIP) technology for conventional diesel-electric submarines it would be on a new-construction Future Submarine rather than being retrofitted to the...
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