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  • Great Britain: Don't Dare mess with us (HMS Daring billed as world's most advanced warship)

    01/30/2006 2:29:38 AM PST · by Stoat · 130 replies · 6,390+ views
    The Sun (U.K.) ^ | January 30, 2006 | TOM NEWTON DUNN
    EXCLUSIVE Don't Dare mess with us Awesome ... Sun man on supershipPictures: PAUL EDWARDS       By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor THIS is the deadliest ship ever built — the Navy’s awesome new Type 45 destroyer. HMS Daring boasts an extraordinary array of firepower. And The Sun was given an exclusive tour of the state-of-the art warship. Daring is the first of a batch of eight Type 45 destroyers — built at a total cost of £6BILLION. Weighing in at 8,000 tonnes, the 14-deck monster is almost twice the size of the current Type 42s. She is armed...
  • New U.S. DD(X) destroyer sails ahead

    11/23/2005 3:10:05 PM PST · by Pharmboy · 73 replies · 2,546+ views
    The deckhouse of an experimental naval destroyer, the DD(X), pictured here at China Lake, California in an undated photo. The Pentagon has opted to move ahead with the new multibillion-dollar destroyer being co-developed by Northrop Grumman Corp. and General Dynamics, Navy officials said on Wednesday. (Handout/Reuters) The Pentagon will order an initial eight highly-automated DD(X) destroyers being developed by Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC - news) and General Dynamics (NYSE:GD - news) as the centerpiece of the U.S. Navy's 21st century fleet, a defense official said on Wednesday. Ending speculation the ship might be killed, the Defense Department cleared a...
  • Do We Finally Get To Kill Somebody?

    11/11/2005 7:50:25 AM PST · by Dr.Syn · 5 replies · 515+ views
    dansargis.org ^ | November 10, 2005 | Dan Sargis
      Do We Finally Get To Kill Somebody?November 10, 2005 With real threats to our national security in full bloom, and traitors in need of immediate lethal injection, why is the Beltway obsessed with much ado about a paper-pushing blond and her self-admitted psychedelic husband?  Maybe the rest of liberal America, along with Joe Wilson, have had “too many wives and taken too many drugs”. Or, in Bill Bennett’s words is it just a case of Overt Inconsistency?  As Bennett rhetorically notes about the liberals, and the MSM Fifth Column, their “support for the CIA, and...for secrecy in war and intelligence, lasted...
  • Four Charged With Scheme to Send Navy Tech Secrets to China

    11/04/2005 7:59:13 PM PST · by Indy Pendance · 21 replies · 987+ views
    AP ^ | 11/4/05
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - An engineer and Chinese television director are among four people indicted on charges of stealing secret documents on Navy warships and trying to smuggle them to China, prosecutors said Friday. Chi Mak, a naturalized U.S. citizen from China who lives in Los Angeles County, was arrested Oct. 28. He allegedly took computer disks from Anaheim defense contractor Power Paragon, where he was lead engineer on a research project involving warship propulsion systems, according to an FBI affidavit. He also allegedly e-mailed photos and reports about the project to his home computer. Authorities say Chi Mak and...
  • Chinese commission new class of warships

    09/27/2005 8:27:12 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 23 replies · 1,173+ views
    ap on Yahoo ^ | 9/27/05 | AP -Shanghai
    SHANGHAI, China - China's navy has commissioned the first in a new class of domestically designed and built warships, official media reported Tuesday. The missile frigate Wenzhou, named after a port city in eastern China, entered service Monday at a ceremony attended by East China Fleet commander Zhao Guojun, according to a brief report on the official Wenzhou Newsnet. The report gave no other details about the ship, but Western military experts have described it as the first in the 054 Ma'anshan class, representing China's most advanced missile frigates. Along with superior electronics, anti-submarine capabilities and air defenses, the ships...
  • China Preparing For War And Few Notice

    09/25/2005 3:11:54 PM PDT · by voteconstitutionparty · 37 replies · 1,615+ views
    Constitution Party News ^ | 09/23/2005 | Chuck Baldwin
    09/23/2005 China Preparing For War And Few Notice by By Chuck Baldwin Constitution Party 2004 Vice-Presidential Candidate Ever since President Richard Nixon entered into détente with the communist regime in China, America has doggedly assisted in the commercial and military buildup of the Marxist nation. Both Republican and Democratic administrations have mollycoddled the Red Chinese to the point that now they have grown big enough to cause serious concern. Both Bill Clinton and G.W. Bush have facilitated the transfers of billions of dollars of commercial assistance to Red China, not to mention vast amounts of technology which China has used...
  • Rockets narrowly miss U.S. warships in Jordan

    What message do we send, when we are fired upon and instead of fighting back, we weigh anchor and run? I have complete faith in our armed services, men and women, but is politics hamstringing our ability to defend ourselves?
  • China Military build-up includes missiles, jets, warships

    07/20/2005 7:54:43 AM PDT · by DTAD · 13 replies · 849+ views
    China Military build-up includes missiles, jets, warships WASHINGTON: China not only is massing forces facing Taiwan, but developing new long-range missiles and acquiring an arsenal of sophisticated jets and warships in an ambitious arms build-up, the United States said on Tuesday. Over the "next several years", Beijing will deploy a DF-31 road-mobile, solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile and a JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile, the Pentagon said in an annual report to Congress on Chinese military power. The current military focus by the People's Liberation Army stresses protecting Chinese borders and waters and intimidating Taiwan, according to the 44-page report, which lists...
  • Pakistan to buy four warships from China

    04/04/2005 9:25:09 AM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 29 replies · 1,335+ views
    AFP ^ | Monday, 04 April , 2005
    Pakistan to buy four warships from China Monday, 04 April , 2005, 18:35 Islamabad: Pakistan is to buy four frigates for its navy from long-time ally China, the defence ministry said on Monday, ahead of a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. "Pakistan and China have signed four contracts for the construction of four F-22P frigate ships for Pakistan Navy," a Pakistani defence ministry statement said. The frigates will be equipped with anti-submarine helicopters, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and other defence systems, the statement added. "These ships, after construction, will be inducted into Pakistan Navy which would not only enhance...
  • BAE takes Sultan of Brunei to court (over warship order)

    04/04/2005 12:01:53 AM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 12 replies · 1,032+ views
    Daily Telegraph ^ | Filed: 03/04/2005 | Sylvia Pfeifer
    BAE takes Sultan to court over £600m order for warships By Sylvia Pfeifer (Filed: 03/04/2005) BAE Systems, Britain's largest defence contractor, is taking the Sultan of Brunei, one of the world's richest men, to court over a $1bn dispute involving an order for three naval ships. The dispute centres on a lucrative export order, estimated to be worth over £600m ($1.13bn), to build three offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Brunei armed forces. The contract was agreed several years ago and BAE, headed by Mike Turner, the chief executive, launched the first ship to much fanfare in January 2001. The...
  • PLEASE! STOP POSTING SAME MESSAGE ON ALL BOARDS!

    08/16/2002 7:39:49 AM PDT · by Merchant Seaman · 754 replies · 30,137+ views
    Annoyed Reader
    The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!
  • Naval base ripe target for terrorists (Royal Australian Navy)

    09/07/2004 2:18:40 PM PDT · by Levante · 232+ views
    News.com.au (Australia News) ^ | 8 September 2004 | Martin Chulov
    NEW South Wales Police have formally told the Federal Government that they fear the Garden Island navy base in Sydney is a sitting duck for terrorists. Senior police believe not enough has been done to protect the dock, known as Fleet Base East, from a terror attack by land or water, despite new maritime regulations which came into force on July 1. Police sources have said the base's location, amid the most densely populated suburbs of Australia, and its proximity to pedestrians make it attractive site for terrorists. In particular, the site is seen as attractive to terrorists intending a...
  • Archaeologists find signs of ancient advertisements from Sassanid era

    08/21/2004 2:34:39 AM PDT · by BlackVeil · 28 replies · 1,269+ views
    Tehran Times ^ | August 21 2004 | Anon
    TEHRAN (MNA) -- During the latest season of excavations of the northern gate of Takht-e Suleiman, an ancient Zoroastrian fire temple located in northwestern Iran, the stamps of two seals were discovered which indicate that objects entered Takht-e Suleiman from other regions with special tags attached to them which seem to be advertisements. They signify that an early form of advertising was being practiced during the Sassanid era (224-642 C.E.), Yusef Moradi, the head of the excavation team, said on Friday. “The team began its excavations in early August and found the stamps of two seals at the upper levels...
  • Ancient Persian fleet surrenders it's mysteries

    08/21/2004 1:17:11 AM PDT · by freedom44 · 16 replies · 2,133+ views
    New Zealand News ^ | 8/21/04 | SIMON COLLINS
    Secrets of an ancient Persian armada sunk off the coast of Greece 2500 years ago are being dredged up by modern archaeologists. A team from Greece, Canada and the United States has just completed a second expedition to retrieve artefacts from 300 ships of the Persian King Darius that were wrecked in a storm off the Mt Athos Peninsula, northern Greece, in 492BC or 493BC. Aucklanders will be among the first to hear the results today when three of the expedition leaders present their findings in a free public lecture at Auckland University. In two trips so far, last October...
  • India needs to replace aging combat fleet, says new naval chief

    08/11/2004 9:28:26 AM PDT · by hedgetrimmer · 42 replies · 991+ views
    AFP ^ | Wed Aug 11 2004 | AFP
    India's new naval chief said the force urgently needed to replace its aging combat ships, admitting it was facing a desperate shortage of manpower and equipment. "My job is to see that the navy stays in fine fettle," Admiral Arun Prakash told a press conference in New Delhi, his first since taking office last month. "We need to arrest declining force levels, which will keep going down till 2012 as aging ships get decommissioned. We have got 150 ships, we need to sustain that level," he added on Wednesday. According to the navy, fleet strength will shrink to 127 warships...
  • Three Royal Navy vessels 'seized by Iran'

    06/21/2004 8:10:49 AM PDT · by monkapotamus · 53 replies · 780+ views
    The Daily Telegraph (Electronic Telegraph) ^ | 6/21/2004 | The Daily Telegraph
    Three Royal Navy vessels 'seized by Iran'(Filed: 21/06/2004) The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that it is investigating reports that three Royal Navy vessels have been seized by Iran. HMS Brocklesby on patrol in the northern Persian Gulf last March The Iranians were said to have arrested eight Royal Navy crew as well as finding weapons and maps on board the vessels. The state-run satellite station Al-Alam was reported to have said that the vessels had been detained in Iranian territorial waters near the Shatt al-Arab waterway that divides Iran from Iraq. It described the impounded vessels only as "warships"....
  • British navy ship hits immediate trouble on launch

    04/12/2004 1:43:25 PM PDT · by Fierce Allegiance · 44 replies · 332+ views
    yahoo news ^ | 4/9/04
    Fri Apr 9, 3:50 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - A brand-new British naval ship saw action rather sooner than expected as it shot across a river after being launched and crunched into the opposite bank. The 16,000-tonne amphibious landing vessel was left with a sizeable dent in its stern after grazing a quayside on the north bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, just seconds after it was launched. The incident came two days after it was revealed that eight of the Royal Air Force's Chinook helicopters had been grounded because they were not equipped to fly in cloudy...
  • Warships Are First Casualty As Spending Cuts Hit Navy (UK)

    01/05/2004 5:12:47 PM PST · by blam · 24 replies · 181+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-6-2004 | Michael Smith
    Warships are first casualty as spending cuts hit Navy By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 06/01/2004) The Royal Navy is to lose at least four destroyers in the next three months, taking the number of surface warships to below that of the French navy for the first time since the 17th century. It will now have only 28 escort ships compared to the French navy's 32 and will no longer be able to mount major operations unless it is fighting alongside either the Americans or the French.Four Type-42 destroyers are to be mothballed as part of a series of cuts...
  • British Falklands War ships had nuclear weapons

    12/05/2003 7:17:23 PM PST · by yonif · 19 replies · 475+ views
    Reuters ^ | 06 Dec 2003
    LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - British warships during the Falklands War in 1982 carried nuclear depth charges, but the weapons never entered the territorial waters of any Latin American nation, the ministry of Defense said on Friday. "The weapons were type WE177 nuclear depth charges. They were on the task force when it sailed south but never entered the territorial waters of the Falkland Islands or any South American country," a spokesman told Reuters. "The decision was taken to transfer them to other ships heading back home," he added, stressing that there had never been any intention of using the...
  • US Warships Sail Into Monrovia As Taylor Finally Goes

    08/11/2003 4:53:20 PM PDT · by blam · 3 replies · 258+ views
    Independent (UK) ^ | 8-12-2003 | Declan Walsh
    US warships sail into Monrovia as Taylor finally goes By Declan Walsh in Monrovia 12 August 2003 Up to the last moment many Liberians could hardly believe it was true. But after six years of destructive rule, Charles Taylor surrendered power to his deputy, Moses Blah, at his executive mansion yesterday and flew into exile abroad. Almost immediately, the momentum for a peaceful solution to Liberia's war started to spin faster. Three US warships sailed before the shores of Monrovia, causing joyful residents to flood onto the city's rubbish-strewn beaches to watch them pass. Two large helicopters rose from the...