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• Book Review:: The Red Siren by M. L. Tyndall

  
  Backseat Writer — Authority: 122
  Books in the genre of Christian historical fiction (especially those of a romantic nature) have never been high on my reading list.  However, The Red Siren (Barbour Publishing) by M. L. Tyndall had such a tantalizing title, I couldn’t help but take a peek at the first book in her Charles Towne Belles ...
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• BAE seeks international warship orders to remain buoyant

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  The future of British warship building lies in the hands of export customers as BAE Systems seeks new orders to keep its sites on the Clyde and at Portsmouth and Bristol busy once the current batch of Royal Navy destroyers and aircraft carriers is finished.
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• Babcock wins communications in-service support contract

  
  Digital Battlespace — Authority: 129
  Source: Babcock International Group A five year contract has been awarded to Babcock, a leading through-life support provider to the MoD and Royal Navy, to provide in-service support for the communications coherency system in Trafalgar class submarines and a real-time messaging system in Vanguard class submarines, ...
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• Future Submarine Design Capability Study

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 545
  Greg Combet, Acting Minister for Defence, today announced that a contract had been signed with the United States RAND Corporation to complete a Domestic Design Study for the Future Submarine Project, SEA 1000. “As outlined in the White Paper, the Government has decided to acquire 12 new Future Submarines, to be ...
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• UK’s Search and Rescue Network to Be Maintained

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 545
  The UKs network of Search and Rescue stations is to be restored from 26 to 28, Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell has confirmed. The MOD had decided in principle to reduce Search and Rescue helicopter crews from 28 to 24 in 2008. But it subsequently became clear that the implementation of this would present an ...
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• Royal Navy – Timing Is Everything

  
  Naval Intelligence | Naval News | Naval Education | War Studies | NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence — Authority: 130
  Defense Technology International – Timing Is Everything HMS Invincible will be retired in 2010, Ark Royal in 2014, and Illustrious in 2016 – HMS Queen Elizabeth will enter service at the end of 2015, with the Prince of Wales to follow in 2018. At least that’s the current timetable according to Quentin ...
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• Defender launches on the Clyde

  
  New Wars — Authority: 475
  Amazing footage from last week’s launch on the River Clyde of the Royal Navy’s latest Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender. Note the discrepancy of the smaller vessels sailing by!Posted in Royal Navy
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• Royal Navy Fly-Past

  
  New Wars — Authority: 475
  This occured recently in Liverpool celebrating the 100th anniversary of Royal Navy airpower. Good stuff.Posted in Royal Navy
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• Astute working up to her maiden voyage to Faslane

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  The first of the Royal Navy’s advanced Astute class submarines, HMS Astute herself, may be well over budget and well over time (as is the MoD’s modus operandi) but it is at last within a few months of arriving at her home port of Faslane, on the Clyde in Argyll.Under Commander AL Coles OBE (Andy [...]
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• How to build the F-35 center fuselage

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 581
  Northrop Grumman has started building the center fuselage for the first international F-35 -- BK-1, ordered by the United Kingdom. In hono(u)r of the occasion, I build a flow-chart based on Lockheed Martin images showing 12 major steps in the center fuselage assembly process. Note: The chart describes the conventional ...
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• Search Continues For British Sailing Couple Believed To Have Been Captured By Somali Pirates

  
  Wend Blog — Authority: 573
  Photo by European Union Naval Force As of today, a report coming from The British Royal Navy states that Paul and Rachel Chandler’s 38-foot sloop, the Lynn Rival has been found adrift. The two sailors last transmitted a distress call off the coast of East Africa from a position within striking distance of a Somali ...
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• Royal Navy – Cost cuts blamed for Nimrod crash

  
  Naval Intelligence | Naval News | Naval Education | War Studies | NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence — Authority: 130
  BBC – Cost cuts blamed for Nimrod crash An independent review into a fatal 2006 Nimrod crash, which killed 14 service personnel, has accused the MoD of sacrificing safety to cut costs.
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• Somali Pirates Capture British Couple on World Sailing Voyage

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  A British couple on a round-the-world yachting trip have been kidnapped by pirates, Somali authorities were informed Tuesday. The authorities said that Paul and Rachel Chandler were seized four days ago as they sailed in the Indian Ocean off the Seychelles. Two Royal Navy vessels are now in the area, conducting a ...
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• Meet Britain’s New Capital Ship

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  HMS Defender was launched at the BVT yard in Glasgow on Oct. 21. From New Wars: I will insist the recent news of the Royal Navy scrapping plans for a second attack carrier, and canceling much of their Joint Strike Fighter order isn’t all bad, but a sign of the sea change in warfare since the Cold War. While ...
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• Royal Navy – Navy surrenders one new aircraft carrier in budget battle

  
  Naval Intelligence | Naval News | Naval Education | War Studies | NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence — Authority: 130
  The Times – Navy surrenders one new aircraft carrier in budget battle The Royal Navy has agreed to sacrifice one of its two new aircraft carriers to save about £8.2 billion from the defence budget.
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• Meet Britain’s New Capital Ship

  
  New Wars — Authority: 475
  I will insist the recent news of the Royal Navy scrapping plans for a second attack carrier, and canceling much of their Joint Strike Fighter order isn’t all bad, but a sign of the sea change in warfare since the Cold War. While many hopes and jobs are on the line of whether these giant [...]
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• USS Obama and HMS Gordon Brown explained.

  
  Daily Referendum — Authority: 123
  I received this today from a workmate. I dont know who wrote it, but its worth posting: The USS Obama Seeing it next to the Arizona Memorial really puts its size into perspective... ENORMOUS! BEAUTIFUL! When the Bridge pipes Man the Rail there is a lot of rail to man on this monster: shoulder to shoulder, ...
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• British Scratch One Flattop!

  
  New Wars — Authority: 475
  Updated with new links from the bottom.Here is a follow up to yesterday’s story that the British Royal Navy will forgo the attack role for one of its large deck aircraft carriers of the Queen Elizabeth class. One of the 65,000 ton giants will be built only to carry helicopters, proving our point that the [...]
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• 1 CV, No Planes?

  
  Information Dissemination — Authority: 133
  This is ... bizarre. With consummate ill-timing U.S. policy makers efforts to sustain a second-engine for the F-35 are met with claims that London is ready to ditch equipping its planned second carrier with the aircraft. Britain’s “Sunday Times” claims the Royal Navy has “agreed to sacrifice” one of its ...
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• Book Review: The Atlantis Revelation by Thomas Greanias

  
  Lair of the Green Knight — Authority: 123
  Unfamiliar with Thomas Greanias ‘ work, I decided to dive into his latest book – The Atlantis Revelation . The combination of Atlantis and Nazi schemes was enough to tickle my fancy, exploring the fantastic world of archaeologist Conrad Yeats. The book turned out to be a bit like National Treasure with a bit ...
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