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Three Virginias/year built in US. For RAN & USN.
Likely for the RAN from the 2030s? The ordered in 2017, already being built US Virginia-class Block V SSNs. They will be capable of vertically launching 40 missiles and can also horizontally launch a...
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Indo-Pacific Missile & Aircraft Happenings: India & Others
BrahMos anti-ship and land attack missiles displayed in Indian parade. (Photo courtesy India's Economic Times).--- The US seeks to consolidate alliances with countries that have some dealings with...
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China Worried: Australia's Nuclear Deterrent Urge
SNAFU has been discussing an Australian nuclear deterrent for several months now (on March 11, 2022, many later comments, also July 7, 2022 and July 8, 2022). It appears China is taking notice. While...
View ArticleRumour Astute(s) to be based in Australia!
As the Daily Mail is not a newspaper of public record, I'll believe the following if/when officially announced. Might it pan out to be one Astute part time given the lack of permanent SSN facilities at...
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Newsflash: Anna Kournikova better looking than Pete
Anna Kournikova photo courtesy Dreshare.---Watching tennis, particularly females playing it, is my only sport. Anna Kournikova is a favourite. Born in cold, unsmiling, Moscow - she's had the good...
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Part-time Astute in Australia Rumour May Be True
UK Defence Chief, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, in Sydney until Wednesday July 27, 2022 perhaps to mainly discuss Astute availability. (Photo courtesy Ben Birchall/PA via UK Telegraph).---The Asia-Pacific...
View ArticleDonor Report: UK & Australian Future SSNs Will Need VPMs
Hi DonorsI've just sent you a new report "UK and Australian Future SSNs Will Need VPMs." Enjoy.Pete
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SSN Reactor Training Australians: US & UK Official Info
Somewhere in far north Scotland's "Dounraey" civilian-military nuclear complex is the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE) where Australians will spend some of their training time. More see...
View ArticleIndonesian, Malaysian Proliferation Concerns - AUKUS
Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies for Australia's WAtoday July 29, 2022 report:"Singapore: Indonesia warns that the sharing of nuclear technology to power submarines could heighten the risk of new types...
View ArticleChinese Report Text: AUKUS Nuclear Proliferation.
It being recommended Western intelligence professionals do not click on thefollowing Chinese links.China's Xinhua press agency has provided a media release, July 21, 2022.The part intelligence China...
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China Debt Trapping Solomons for Island Bases
Kolombangara Island (in the Solomons). China is interested in Kolombangara for a Naval and Air Base. Kolombangara is the circular volcanic island (above left-center courtesy NASA) and (below, courtesy...
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UK Admiral, Sir Tony Radakin, Confesses to Mole.
Admiral Radakin with SubMatts' most illustrious mole, Commander Bond, James Bond.(Photo courtesy Evening Standard.)---Submarine Matters' main mole suspected the UK's Chief of Defence Staff Admiral, Sir...
View ArticlePelosi now in Taiwan Pokes Chinese PRC Dragon
The Guardianreports August 3, 2022, in part:[Senior politician, US House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi [re China] has landed in Taiwan for a controversial visit to the self-ruled island, offering “unwavering...
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Pelosi Crisis: Chinese Blockade of Taiwan
China breaching Taiwan's sea and airspace in the Taiwan Strait, west of Taiwan, has been continuing for years, but the Pelosi Crisis has changed all that. Since Pelosi arrived in Taiwan and has now...
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Chinese Ship Intercepting Indian Communications
Yuan Wang 5 interception ship (Photo courtesy News18).--- Ghalib Kabir commented August 2, 2022.A Chinese SIGINT and missile instrumentation ship [the 25,000 tonne Yuan Wang 5, photo above] was due to...
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Indonesian, Australian, Indian, Dutch & Soviet Issues
Indonesia's heavy cruiser, Kri Irian, served Indonesia in an unconventional role before disappearing in the 1970s.--- On Indonesia's concerns about future Australian SSNs, Indian-Indonesian...
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South Korea Offering KSS-III Sub to Australia
The first KSS-III being launched September 2018. (Photo courtesy DSME via Naval Technology)---On August 4, 2022, Anonymous kindly provided the following links and comment:Seoul kicks off efforts to...
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China's Global Times on "Taiwan Encirclement"
Defense Reporter Liu Xuanzun, for China's Global Times, has written an excellent, for Taiwan disturbing, article encapsulating the official Chinese viewpoint on the"Taiwan encirclement". Liu's article...
View ArticleChina Bullish on TAIWAN Takeover
With Ukraine distracting much Western military force and policy attention, Commander-in-Chief Biden’s visible mental declineand Pelosi’s reckless visit, Xi may be correct in gambling that escalating...
View ArticleSome in US Prepared to go to War over Taiwan
Anonymous has posed the questions in bolded Red with his answers in bolded Blue. Under some are Pete comments in Black.1(a). What can Taiwan do to discourage a Chinese blockade?Taiwan should try get...
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