Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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• http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11384 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:50:57 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11377/t/Chinese-military-wants-closer-ties-with-Pentagon.html
  
  http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091026/us/politics_us_china_usa_military
  
  

  China's military sought to assure the United States on Monday that its arms buildup was not a threat and said Beijing wanted to expand cooperation with the Pentagon to reduce the risk of future... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11377 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:50:55 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11293/t/Indonesian-Navy-to-equip-patrol-ships-with-SSMs.html A belated update:
  
  

  Navy to equip patrol ships with guided missiles
  Monday, October 5, 2009 20:32 WIB | National | | Viewed 107 time(s)
  Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said on Monday the Navy plans to equip its patrol ships with guided missiles to increase their deterrent capability.

  "We will increase the number of patrol ships and equip them with Chinese-... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11293 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:55:14 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11273/t/Burma-Bangladesh-in-Warship-Standoff.html Burmese and Bangladeshi warships faced off across the Bay of Bengal on Monday as both nations built up naval and military forces along the border, according to a report in the Dhaka-based The Daily Star on... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11273 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:20:15 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11211/t/China-to-build-larger-new-class-of-destroyer.html I wonder how this new class will look like?
  
  

  Beijing To Build Large Destroyers
  Beijing plans to build a new generation of large destroyers as part of its effort to develop a blue-water navy, a report from an official ship-building institute shows
  

  feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11211 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:59:01 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11181/t/Taiwan-in-talks-with-Germany-over-rejected-Greek-subs.html
  
  Taiwan in talks with Germany over four submarines: report
  

  Taipei: Taiwan is considering purchasing four German-built submarines that had been rejected by the Greek Navy, a report said Wednesday.
  
  According to Next Magazine, Taiwan's military approached Kiel-based shipbuilder Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) for four Class 214s after... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11181 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:28:32 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11079/t/China-cutting-ground-forces-to-boost-PLA-N-PLA-AF.html
  Was there not an earlier series of troop cuts to PLA ground forces earlier this decade or in the late 1990s, thus demonstrating the PLA's adherence to "People's War(人民战争) under modern conditions(现代情况)" adage uttered by the late Deng which called for leaner, more quickly deployable, as well as better equipped/trained units?
  
  I think the last batch of cuts involved 500,000 and a great part of that group were actually transferred to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/11079 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:12:16 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10961/t/ASEAN-forges-agreement-for-joint-disaster-task-force-.html
  
  

  RP ratifies ASEAN disaster response agreement Accord to enter into force by year-end
  By MADEL R. SABATER
  September 17, 2009, 6:20pm
  
  The ASEAN Agreement on... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10961 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:16:08 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10958/t/Japanese-submarine-found-in-Pearl-Harbor-wink.html
  http://www.csp.navy.mil/releases/release_09048.shtml
  
  

  JS Yaeshio Arrives at Naval Station Pearl Harbor
  By MC2 (SW/AW/SCW) Ronald Gutridge
  COMSUBPAC Public Affairs
  
  Release Date: 09/17/2009
  
  ... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (bager1968) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10958 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:20:43 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10948/t/Thailand-to-build-own-OPVs.html
  

  Thailand has an 1,800 nautical mile coastline to protect, with responsibility resting mainly with the Royal Thai Navy (RTN).
  
  With a fleet of over 130 mainly modern vessels, including a small aircraft carrier, 15 frigates and corvettes, and six missile-armed fast attack craft, the RTN is one of Southeast Asia's larger, and better-equipped, maritime forces.
  
  The RTN's major warships are... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10948 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:35:46 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10910/t/DCNS-eyes-Asian-shipbuilding-market.html
  

  SINGAPORE (AP) - French warship builder DCNS said Thursday it's in talks with Asian navies to sell submarines, ships and other naval equipment as the region looks to boost defense spending to protect burgeoning economic interests.
  
  "Everybody in the area - Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines - is looking to upgrade their naval forces," said Eric Lassalle, managing director for DCNS's Asian unit.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10910 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:30:27 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10747/t/JMSDF-requests-248-metre-helicopter-carrier.html Hyuuga, at 19500 tons, 248 metres long (compare Cavour - 244 metres), through deck, transport capability, command suite, more aviation capability.
  
  http://headlines.yahoo.co...090831-00000167-mai-soci
  feeds@yuku.com (Bledlow) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10747 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:35:29 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10726/t/effect-of-Japan-39-s-new-party-on-defence-spending-.html
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090830/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_politics
  
  

  Japanese election upends long-ruling party

  By... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10726 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:37:13 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10623/t/SEACAT-09-exercises-involve-USN-5-other-Asian-navies.html Seems antipiracy ops might be one contingency this exercise has been aimed at preparing for:
  
  

  
  SEACAT Shows Benefits of Cooperation Ashore, At Sea
  Story Number: NNS090821-02
  Release Date: 8/21/2009 9:30:00 AM

  By By Lt. Mike Morley, Task Group 73.5 Public Affairs

  http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=47789

  ... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10623 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:35:44 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10593/t/China-s-PLA-unveils-new-website.html We'll see if this is a genuine attempt at transparency...
  
  From the AP:
  
  

  
  China's secretive military launches Web site
  Updated August 20, 2009 11:48 AM

  
  BEIJING (AP) -- China's Defense Ministry launched its first official Web site Thursday, part of an effort by the normally secretive military to be more transparent.

  The site's launch - including an... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10593 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:10:07 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10555/t/S-Korea-ROKN-to-deploy-new-ASW-torpedoes-by-2012.html
  

  S. Korea to Deploy New Anti-Sub Torpedoes By 2012
  
  By JUNG SUNG-KI
  Published: 16 Aug 2009 10:04
  
  SEOUL - South Korea will by 2012 deploy 60 to 70... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10555 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:45:49 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10500/t/China-kicks-off-unprecedented-major-military-exercise.html

  
  

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  China Kicks Off Unprecedented Military Exercise
  AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
  Published: 11 Aug 2009 06:56
  
  BEIJING - China's military on Aug. 11 launched its largest tactical military... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10500 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:12:06 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10485/t/Taiwan-Chinese-militaries-respond-as-strong-typhoon-hits.html

  In this image taken on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, and released by the Taiwan Military News Agency on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, a soldier sifts through debris from Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung county. A mudslide touched off by the deadly typhoon buried a remote mountain village in Taiwan, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted for, while... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10485 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:39:41 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10388/t/China-delivers-new-Frigate-to-Pakistan.html And Beijing continues to court Islamabad.
  
  

  
  China Delivers Frigate To Pakistan: Navy

  By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
  Published: 30 Jul 2009 13:43

  KARACHI - China on July 30 delivered the first of four state-of-the-art frigates commissioned by nuclear-armed Pakistan from top ally Beijing, a naval spokesman said.

  ... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10388 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:11:21 GMT http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10296/t/India-launches-1st-nuclear-submarine.html

  NEW DELHI - India launched its first nuclear-powered submarine on Sunday, officials said, underlining the military advances made by the rapidly developing nation.

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called it a "historic milestone in the country's defence preparedness" as the 6,000-tonne INS Arihant (Destroyer of Enemies) was named in the southern city of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (San Mao An) http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/10296 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:52:25 GMT