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Australian admiral defends submarine procurement
Jan 28, 2013 (UPI)
A senior Australian admiral has defended the purchase of next generation submarines that have been labelled a "gold-plated $30 billion sinkhole." Chief of Navy ...
Taiwan president presses for US subs deal
Jan 28, 2013 (AFP)
Taiwan urged the United States Monday to honour an agreement to supply submarines to replace its current elderly fleet, as a US congressional group visited the ...
US not exempt from laws: Philippines' Aquino
Jan 27, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine President Benigno Aquino has welcomed the US Navy's apology for a minesweeper that went aground on a World Heritage-listed coral reef, but said they ...
China develops deep-sea submarine
Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)
China Shipbuilding Industry Corp. has developed a new manned submersible capable of deep dives. The state-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corp. is one of the ...
BAE touts maintenance work for Royal Navy
Jan 23, 2013 (UPI)
BAE Systems in Britain reports it has started support and maintenance work on Royal Navy offshore patrol vessels. The work on the River-class ships comes under ...
Indian navy gets its third Saryu-class patrol vessel
Jan 23, 2013 (UPI)
India's navy has taken delivery of its third Saryu-class offshore patrol vessel, the indigenously designed and built Sumedha. The 345-foot ship is the 200th ves...
Falling Up: DARPA To Launch Just-In-Time Payloads From Bottom Of Sea
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
Today, cost and complexity limit the Navy to fewer weapons systems and platforms, so resources are strained to operate over vast maritime areas. Unmanned system...
US Navy fined for 'illegal entry' at Philippine reef
Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine authorities said Tuesday they have fined the US Navy for "unauthorised entry" after an American minesweeper went aground on a World Heritage-listed c...
QinetiQ's Hyperbaric Trials Unit supports the MOD in testing new composite materials for UK submarine fleet
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
QinetiQ is supporting the MOD in testing new composite materials for the UK submarine fleet using its recently re-commissioned and refitted Hyperbaric Trials Un...
Vietnam takes delivery of its first 'black hole' sub
Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)
Vietnam officially took delivery of the first of six "black hole" submarines amid increasing tensions over territorial disputes and fishing rights in the South ...
Raytheon continues successful performance on DDG 1000
Jan 17, 2013 (SPX)
Raytheon has delivered more than six million lines of software to the U.S. Navy for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer program. Part of the Total Ship Computi...
Russia's new submarine: arming for peace
Jan 14, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
From December 10, Russia is starting to exploit a new military submarine, called "Yuri Dolgoruky". This is a long-standing project that had been suspended for s...
Pride of Argentine navy back home after debt tussle
Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)
With pomp worthy of a nation welcoming returning war heroes, Argentina greeted the arrival Wednesday of a three-masted navy sailing frigate that had been caught...
General Dynamics Awarded $4.6 Billion for Submarine Programs
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
General Dynamics Electric Boat was recently awarded three U.S. Navy contracts totaling $4.6 billion to design and develop the next-generation strategic deterren...
Iran navy launches 6-day massive exercises
Jan 01, 2013 (XNA)
Iranian Navy launched a 6-day massive drill in its southern waters on Friday, local satellite Press TV reported. The naval drills, dubbed Velayat 91, or Guardia...
India Receives Second Russia-Built Stealth Missile Frigate
Jan 01, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
The second of three stealth frigates that Russia builds for India at the Yantar Shipyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad arrived at the port of Mumbai...
First Borey Class Nuclear Sub to Join Russian Navy on Sunday
Jan 01, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's first Borey class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, will be officially put into service with the Russian Navy on Sunday, the des...
China adds destroyers to marine surveillance: report
Dec 31, 2012 (AFP)
China has transferred two destroyers and nine other ex-navy vessels to its maritime surveillance fleet, reports said Monday, as it moves to beef up its position...
Philippines objects to new Chinese gunboat
Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)
The Philippines on Friday said it "strongly objects" to China's deployment of a new patrol vessel in the South China Sea, where the two countries have a seethin...
Thatcher 'taken by surprise' by Falklands invasion: archives
Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)
The invasion of the Falklands Islands by Argentina in 1982 took the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher by surprise, previously secret government papers revea...
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