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• Aircraft Carrier News Updates -- December 27, 2009

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  The Navy will have to make significant infrastructure improvements to allow carriers to dock in Guam. The carrier Ronald Reagan is shown here pulling into Agana Harbor off the coast of Guam in 2008. MC2 Jennifer S. Kimball / Navy Carrier Alternative Weekly -- New Wars The Carrier Deception What if ...
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• Death Watch For MiG

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Myanmar is buying twenty MiG-29s from Russia. Myanmar bought its first twelve MiG-29s in 2001. This new sale will earn Russia some criticism, because Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a military dictatorship with a very bad international reputation. But Russia is desperate to keep the MiG-29 from fading away. To that end, ...
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• Carrier Alternative Weekly

  
  New Wars — Authority: 507
  The Carrier Deception What if there was a way to build up carrier numbers today, without drastically increasing the shipbuilding budget or retiring vast sums of other essential navy ships prematurely? I don’t mean just deploying the 15 of the Cold War, but dozens, scores, all you need and more. What if I tell you ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Citing Indian purchases, China justifies arms sales to Pakistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Beijing, Dec 23 (IANS) A senior defence official here has justified China’s sale of warships and submarines to Pakistan on the ground that India was buying similar systems from Russia and the US.He indicated that China was conscious India might be worried about the sales. “The initiative may invite concerns from ...
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• President Patil’s first ‘day at sea’ on board INS Viraat

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil will experience her first ‘day at sea’ when she steps aboard India’s lone aircraft carrier INS Viraat Wednesday, an Indian Navy official said.The president, who is also the supreme commander of the country’s armed forces and the first woman in the post, will board ...
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• President Patil to visit INS Viraat today

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Mumbai, Dec. 23 (ANI): India’s only aircraft carrier — the INS Viraat — will have a special guest today — President Pratibha Devisingh Patil.Patil, the supreme commander of the country’s armed forces, will get on board the ship at around 11 a.m. tomorrow, a spokesman of the Indian Navy said here.The ...
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• Patil to visit INS Viraat on Wednesday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Mumbai, Dec. 22 (ANI): India’s only aircraft carrier — the INS Viraat — will have a special guest on Wednesday — President Pratibha Devisingh Patil.Patil, the supreme commander of the country’s armed forces, will get on board the ship at around 11 a.m. tomorrow, a spokesman of the Indian Navy said here.The ...
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• President to be on board INS Viraat Wednesday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil will be on board the country’s lone aircraft carrier INS Viraat in Mumbai Wednesday, close on the heels of becoming the first woman to fly in an Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jet.In her first “day at sea”, Patil, the supreme commander of the country’s armed ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Carrier Alternative Weekly

  
  New Wars — Authority: 507
  Why the Royal Navy ShrinksYour first guess to this question might be “lack of funds”. However, I beg to disagree, and instead point to headlines like the following:Navy’s fleet is cut in defence shake-up but carriers stayThese cuts mentioned are only two small warships. No big deal right? Yet, the consistent ...
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• Gorshkov price is settled with Russia at $2.3 billion

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  By Gulshan R LuthraNew Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The price of aircraft carrier Gorshkov has been finally settled at US $2.3 billion.Notwithstanding some bitterness, the Indian side finally agreed to pay this price after being told by the Prime Minister’s Office that the high level of friendship with Russia has to be ...
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• Mission Not Accomplished

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 436
  by Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and author of Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit from the Economic Collapse Although Barack Obama has refrained, at least for now, from delivering triumphant speeches in a naval flight suit, there is nevertheless a strong tone of accomplishment emanating from the ...
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• India will get Gorshkov in good shape: Russian envoy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Dec.14 (ANI): It’s official now. After India, Russia has also confirmed that problems relating to the price of the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov has been sorted out, and it will be delivered to India in a good shape. Talking to reporters here, new Russian envoy Alexander Kadakin said: “The pricing ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carrier Alternative Weekly

  
  New Wars — Authority: 507
  Scratch 2 Flattops in QDRWhew! Big news. Taking a deep breath. Here we go, from DoD Buzz:Word on Capitol Hill is that the Quadrennial Defense Review should result in the demise of two Navy car­rier groups and the Marines’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. On top of that, the Joint Strike Fighter pro­gram is likely ...
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• Carl Vinson Leaves Shipyard Ahead of Schedule

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 560
  NEWPORT NEWS, Va: USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) departed the Northrop Grumman Naval Shipyard in Newport News, Va., after completing an extensive four-year refueling complex overhaul (RCOH) and a 14-week Post Shakedown Availability/Supplemental Restricted Availability (PSA/SRA) period, Dec. 3. Carl Vinson immediately went ...
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• MiG-29 carrier-based fighter jets delivered to India

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 560
  Russias MiG aircraft maker said on Tuesday it has delivered the first four MiG-29 Fulcrum-D carrier-based fighter jets to India. Russia and India signed a contract on January 20, 2004, stipulating the supply of 12 single-seat MiG-29Ks and four two-seat MiG-29KUBs to India as part of a $1.5 billion deal to deliver the ...
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• Timeline of fixing final price of Admiral Gorshkov

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) India and Russia have “successfully” concluded the agreement on the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Russia. Following is the timeline of fixing the final price of the craft:1978 - The keel for the Kiev class aircraft carrier was laid in ...
  3 weeks ago

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