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• MoD may sell aircraft carrier to India to limit cuts (UK)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  MoD may sell aircraft carrier to India to limit cuts Sale would leave Royal Navy with just one replacement Tim Webb The Observer, Sunday 15 November 2009 Article historyOne of Britains new £2bn aircraft carriers could be sold off under cost-cutting plans being considered by the Ministry of Defence. India has lodged a ...
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• BAE hands new nuclear submarine to the Royal Navy - four years late

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Astute is 97m long weighs 7400 tonnes has the biggest ears of any sonar system in service and has the processing power of 2000 laptops.
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• Breaking: Britain May Sell New Carrier to India

  
  New Wars — Authority: 476
  Selling one of the 2 Queen Elizabeth to India? This is actually not a bad idea. I’ll explain later, but here is the amazing story concerning the hapless Royal Navy supercarriers, from the Guardian:One of Britain’s new £2bn aircraft carriers could be sold off under cost-cutting plans being considered by the ...
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• Royal Navy – Royal Navy failed to open fire as pirates seized Britons

  
  Naval Intelligence | Naval News | Naval Education | War Studies | NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence — Authority: 131
  The Times – Royal Navy failed to open fire as pirates seized Britons The Royal Navy failed to open fire as Somali pirates seized two British hostages and, instead, watched helplessly as the couple were taken prisoner.
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• Wave Knight abandons chivalry in Somali hijack incident

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  This is the Royal Navy’s 31,000 tonne tanker, RFA Wave Knight. She is almost 200 metres long with a beam of over 28 metres.She has a crew of up to 100 - 72 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel with provision for another 26 Royal Navy personnel for helicopter and weapons systems operations.She has two 30 mm [...]
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• Royal Navy Failed to Save British Couple

  
  New Wars — Authority: 476
  Recently in the news was the kidnapping of a British couple from their yacht in the Gulf by Somali pirates. Details from the Sun revels that a British warship was on the scene during the event:Supply ship RFA Wave Knight was sent to intercept the pirates as they grabbed Paul and Rachel Chandler from their [...]
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• Fleets in Being

  
  Information Dissemination — Authority: 133
  Interesting post from UltimaRatioReg: When built, Tirpitz was one of the most powerful units afloat. Slightly larger than her more famous sister, Bismarck, KMS Tirpitz displaced more than 43,000 tons. She was 824 feet long, armed with eight 38-cm (15”) guns, and had exceeded 31 knots on trials. The British had ...
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• Loch Striven ship dump: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Update 18.00 12th November: Maersk Maryland and Maersk Maine are now both in port in Algeciras in the south of Spain. Both are showing Greenock as their next destination, with an ETA of midday on 16th November for Maine and 6.00pm on the same day for Maryland. This supports the information given by Stew in [...]
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• Royal Navy – Boomer Bust

  
  Naval Intelligence | Naval News | Naval Education | War Studies | NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence — Authority: 131
  Defense Technology International – Boomer Bust While hardly an auspicious start, a couple of months delay in concluding the concept phase for the UK’s future deterrent program is – in the UK Defense Ministry scheme of things – almost on time.
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• Book Review:: The Red Siren by M. L. Tyndall

  
  Backseat Writer — Authority: 121
  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: 127
  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: 531
  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: 531
  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: 131
  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: 476
  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: 476
  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: 443
  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: 599
  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: 555
  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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