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World Naval Developments – Jan 2016

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By Norman Friedman* In January, a Chinese carrier battle group built around the carrier Liaoning steamed around Taiwan, conducting live-fire exercises and launching and recovering...

Duterte wants China sea patrols to stop kidnappings

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President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday (Jan 31) he has asked China to send sea patrols to help stop militants from abducting sailors and...

Why China and Russia fear America’s new Ford-Class aircraft carriers

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IN 2009, the U.S. Navy finally began construction of the first new type of aircraft carrier in nearly thirty-five years. Kyle Mizokami looks as why China and Russia will dread the USS FORD which fully takes the nuclear supercarrier into the twenty-first century.

Indian Navy launches seeks 57 carrier-borne fighter jets

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Having rejected indigenously built 'Tejas' as too heavy, the Indian Navy has launched a Request for Information to procure 57 multi-role combat aircraft for...

The cyber vulnerability of modern navies

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Travis Howard and José de Arimatéia da Cruz look at the cyber threats to the US Navy, a vast, worldwide organization with unique missions and challenges, with information security (and information warfare at large) with more thanr 320,000 active duty personnel, 274 ships with over 20 percent of them deployed across the world at any one time.

Turkey builds first frigate

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Work began Thursday on Turkey's first national frigate as part of the national vessel project. Speaking at a ceremony at the Istanbul Shipyard, Defense...

First ATM on warship

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Indian Navy's only operational aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya will soon to have an (Automatic Teller Machine) ATM on-board. Country's largest Public Sector Bank State...

Singapore, Philippines and US militaries in disaster relief exercise

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WHAT happens when an active volcano erupts in the Philippines followed by a Category 5 typhoon striking the same area just five days later?...

Creative thought and US defence

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Speaking to the Army War College in early 2015, Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work charged the Army with developing a new operational concept to account for the changing character of war, a concept he termed “AirLand Battle 2.0.”

International law under siege in South China Sea

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By Douglas Gates* CHINA'S seizure of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in the South China Sea last month garnered widespread attention. The drone...