China's Trade Bans Against Australia Hurt China
Andrew, on October 20, 2021, made more interesting comments: By coincidence, I watched a documentary on how Beijing's attempt to ban or raise tariffs on Australian goods has either failed to hurt...
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Japan's Islands: Legal Chinese and Russian Navy FONOPs
Red ellipse marks the Tsugaru Strait (Map courtesy Wiki commons)---My friend John, from Texas, has drawn my attention to the Tsugaru Strait problem.Some years ago, Japan adjusted the territorial waters...
View ArticleNth Korea’s “New Type SLBM”: More Political Than Military Significance
https://www.38north.org/2021/10/north-koreas-new-type-submarine-launched-ballistic-missile-more-political-than-military-significance/
View ArticleJapan & Canada Could Eventually Join AUKUS says UK General
Australian Government owned ABC News, October 21, 2021, reports: the UK's departing Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Nicholas Carter, has stated Japan, Canada and New Zealand could eventually...
View ArticleMid East Quad Idea to Counter China's Belt & Road
Gessler, on October 22, 2021, commented on a very interesting idea of a new Quad: A new 'Quad' seems to be taking shape in the Middle East, with Israel & UAE joining the common core of US &...
View ArticleAustralia's Great Power SSN Aspirations Endangered
Xavier Vavasseur for Naval News, on 21 Oct 2021, has written an interesting article entitled “World’s Newest Class of Nuclear Attack Submarine: Rare Access Inside Suffren”.While the precise numbers of...
View ArticleH I Sutton's Chinese Navy Submarines Video
English accented H I Sutton (here and above) on October 23, 2021, produced another excellent video. It runs for 11 minutes 41 seconds and this time is on Chinese Navy submarines.As it is brief, clear...
View ArticleStrangely Sobering AUKUS SSN Sermon
In a free flowing, yet strangely sober sermon “Bureaucratus Lex” has provided perhaps prescient pathways on perturbingly problematic AUKUS SSN perambulations. Bureaucratus, on October 26, 2021,...
View ArticleAdvanced AUV/UUVs, Small Coastal Subs & Minisubs
Ghalib Kabir, on October 28, 2021, invited my assessment on advances in 1. AUVs/UUVs 2. Small Subs (up to 600 tons) and 3. Minisubs (up to 300 tons). The opaque and secret nature of all these undersea...
View ArticleDefence Minister flags arrival of Australia's first nuclear sub...
Bureaucratus Rex was certainly barking up the Right tree in his sage sermon of October 26, 2021. The Australian government has lost no time in conjuring up sound bites and newspaper column inches...
View ArticleGreat Article on AUKUS Submarine Hurdles
This long article, by Chris Buckley, for the New York Times, via Bangladesh's BdNews24,on October 30, 2021, says it all, so well:“Nuclear-powered submarines for Australia? Maybe not so fast” When...
View ArticleJapanese Submarine and Broader High Tech Projects
wispywood2344 on October 31, 2021, made some very interesting comments: In recent years, Japan has been increasing its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASuW) capabilities in...
View ArticleUS Sub DID Hit Rising Rocky Hard Seabed/Seamount
Regarding what USS Connecticut hit on October 2, 2021 to cause major bow damage. In the following I have bolded key phrases for emphasis: On October 8, I wrote: “But I’d put my money on [Connecticut]...
View ArticleMacron vs Morrison: All About Their Next Elections
Why are President Macron and Prime Minister Morrison still fighting over an Australian decision already made - to cancel the Attack-class program?Macron and Morrison are actually cooperating in order...
View ArticleUK Trafalgar-class Submarine Reactor End Leaks
Some nuclear submarines for Australia exponents have suggested Australia consider leasing aging UK Trafalgar-class nuclear submarines. Beware, submarine reactors and the complex pipes connected to...
View ArticleUSS Connecticut Collision: Some Facts So Far
Samuel Chamberlain for the New York Post reports October 8, 2021: “Sailors hurt after Navy submarine collides with object in South China Sea "Several sailors suffered minor injuries after a US Navy...
View ArticleUK Trafalgar-class Submarine Reactor End Leaks
Some nuclear submarines for Australia exponents, have suggested Australia consider leasing aging UK Trafalgar-class nuclear submarines. Beware, submarine reactors and the complex pipes connected to...
View ArticleUSS Connecticut: Sackings as Expected
Regarding chain of command responsibility for USS Connecticut's seamount encounter, on October 12, 2021, I commented:"Pete said...Hi KQN [your Oct 12, 2021, 2:53:00 PM]I think the USN will hold a Board...
View ArticleChina's Nuclear Gambit Deterring the US: Taiwan?
A great essay by Valerie Niquet at The Diplomat, November 6, 2021, at https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/chinas-nuclear-gambit/As the essay is at a paysite here is the first sentence only:"Don’t be...
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USS Connecticut's Sonar Navigation Wasn't Working
Artwork of a submarine operating its short-range, faintly "active", seafloor (and mine) imaging navigation sonar (NavSon) (Artwork courtesy https://blog.assemblrworld.com/how-submarine-works/dated May...
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