I’m sure we can count on China passing this technology on to Pakistan. China wants Pakistan to keep India on its toes.
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With this, India has become capable of launching missiles from air, land, ships and submarines and joins an elite group that includes the US, Russia, France and China.
The performance of the missile [...]

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The Pentagon is going to resuscitate its Fourth Fleet, with the mission of patrolling Latin American and Caribbean waters.
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The plan to install a military base in Paraguay, close to Bolivian gas fields, was denounced by Brazil and Argentina. Ecuador has made it known that the American military base installed in Manta until 2009 will not [...]

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Carrier battle groups. On April 4, Navy Commander in Chief Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky confirmed that Russia would build five to six new aircraft carriers. Since last year there has been talk of establishing powerful task forces, but the recent statement gave concrete details on what some observers had hitherto discounted as empty dreams:
– New carriers.
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The effort to refurbish elderly W76 nuclear warheads is being held up by difficulties in manufacturing a substance codenamed “fogbank.” A year ago, the nuclear weapons industry was proposing new warhead design for the navy’s sea-launched Trident D5 ballistic missiles. This would involve replacing 3,000 W76 warheads that currently equip 336 missiles. This project would [...]

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Sixty-five years after World war II’s Battle of Midway, the United States remains the world’s only naval superpower. U.S. planners now face the challenge of preserving that dominance while adjusting to a new world of threats. A maritime strategy unveiled October 17—a partnership involving the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard—advocates a shift from sea [...]

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Irony of ironies: The principal champion of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is the United States Navy. Yet predictably few organizations would suffer more than America’s naval forces from a supranational government of the oceans empowered by U.S. accession to that treaty.
The absurdity of this situation was on display last week as the [...]

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Did you know that China could become the world’s leading naval power by 2020? That’s the verdict of military analyst Tony Corn. This may help explain why the U.S. Navy thinks a piece of paper called the U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty provides some sort of protection for American forces on the high seas. [...]

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Russia will build more warships, both surface vessels and submarines, to ensure the country’s security, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Sunday, citing the navy commander-in-chief Vladimir Masorin.
“It is second in its might in the world. We should not feel shy, but be proud of our navy, which now has strategic submarine forces equipped [...]

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China will likely expand its navy and send its ships further out on the high seas to take a more active role in securing global sea lanes vital to its burgeoning economy, the US naval commander in Japan said yesterday.
Rear Admiral James Kelly said that the strategic shift heightened the need for operational transparency [...]

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Last year, the Bush Administration and Congress missed an opportunity to strengthen the Navy’s attack submarine fleet when they failed to appropriate funds that had been authorized for the long lead-time items necessary to start procuring the Virginia-class attack submarine at the rate of two per year in fiscal year 2009. As a result, the [...]

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MOSCOW, April 9 (RIA Novosti) - A fourth-generation strategic nuclear submarine will be launched during a special ceremony at a shipbuilding yard in northern Russia Sunday, a first deputy prime minister said Monday.
The Yury Dolgoruky, a Borey-class nuclear missile submarine, was built at the Sevmash plant in the northern Arkhangelsk Region. It will be equipped [...]

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To world historians, there is nothing more fascinating than to notice a coincidence or a disjuncture across space but within roughly the same time.
Was it just a coincidence, for example, that the new but fast-growing states of Germany, Japan, Italy and the United States “came of age” at the same time, after 1870 or so? [...]

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China continues to expand the operational and strategic role of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as it buys and builds new warships and submarines and upgrades existing ones.
Chinese shipyards have been building fast attack missile patrol boats, dock landing ships, frigates and destroyers, many with stealthy, high-tech features common on Western warships.
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April 2 (Bloomberg) — In a Santa Ana, California, courtroom, 66-year-old engineer Chi Mak listens to federal prosecutors describe how he and his family stole secrets from his employer, L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. The alleged target: data about Navy submarine engines that run silently to avoid detection.
U.S. intelligence officials say the Mak case is [...]

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It would seem like an easy question to answer, right? Hiding an aircraft carrier isn’t like slipping a knife into your pocket. But China watchers aren’t sure what’s going on in Beijing. In January 2006, Taiwan claimed to have evidence that mainland China was planning to build an entire carrier group, a charge Beijing immediately [...]

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Vessel to be on par with latest U.S. carrier, according to data
China has been pushing ahead with construction of a mega-sized nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be completed in 2020, according to a Chinese Communist Party’s dossier.
A source close to Chinese military affairs said on March 27 that China has been promoting the construction of a [...]

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China has begun sea trials for its new Type 094 SSBNs (Ballistic Missile Nuclear Submarines). The 094 is based on the Type 093 SSN (nuclear attack sub.) Having already sent the first two new, 7,000 ton, 093 class SSNs to sea, China was apparently underwhelmed by their performance. Not much more is expected from the [...]

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The US navy said on Tuesday it is staging major war games in the Gulf with two aircraft carriers for the first time since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, at a time of heightened tension with Iran. The manoeuvres involve the USS John C. Stennis, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and their battle groups. They [...]

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