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European Naval Shipbuilding and Market Outlook
The dramatic changes in Europe's security environment due to the war in Ukraine continue to reshape all aspects of military planning and expenditure in the region. While much attention has been focused on the impact of the Ukraine conflict in the ground and air domains, it has also affected naval programmes and infrastructure in Europe. This article explores regional naval shipyard and construction
trends and developments across three regions in Europe. It concludes with a brief consideration of
longer term trends and implications for naval industry in Europe as the continent's security situation
continues to change. We draw our data from AMI International's proprietary content used in their
naval market forecasting products.
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The MJLGEM Programme: Turkish Naval Procurement and Exports
Turkey's MILGEM programme represents a significant accomplishment in that country's sustained effort to become a designer, builder and exporter of advanced naval warships. The MILGEM's programme history highlights how Turkey has built on the initial domestic customer base for MILGEM corvettes to expand into the export market; a proven business model used by many other naval shipbuilders to add to revenue and market share, while reducing the cost of domestic construction programmes. Further, the MILGEM programme's initial objective to establish a partnership of Turkish government and industry that would prove capable of advancing to more complex frigate and destroyer
designs appears to be on track. This is evidenced by the commencement of the MILGEM G, a small frigate design evolved from the initial MILGEM corvette, as well as the prospect of the TF 2000 destroyer programme.
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European Security Defence
Europe can be rightly considered a 'home' for submarine forces. The history of submarine design, construction and operations is deeply rooted in the European naval experience of the 20th century.
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European Security & Defence
The global naval market for anti-ship missiles has entered a transition phase as established market leaders
such as Boeing's HARPOON and MBDA's EXOCET compete against a growing number of increasingly capable,
lethal, and inexpensive rivals offered from the US, Europe, China, and Russia. This article reviews the
current and future prospects for naval ASuW missile in the global market.
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Armament & Technology
More than a century after its debut, the submarine remains a key capability among the world's navies and an area of continuing investment and technological development. Over forty navies worldwide have submarines in their fleets, and the number of submarine operators appears set to grow.
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European Security & Defence
In the last ten years, there has been an increasing trend from purpose-built Mine Countermeasures Vessels (MCMVs) to mine warfare modules and multi-capability ships. Will global navies continue to shift from single-mission mine warships to multi-mission and modular mine defence capabilities.
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European Security & Defence
This article draws on AMI's naval market reporting and proprietary data to review South America's naval market, and the prospects for European naval suppliers in it.
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Armament & Technology - Mar 2017
These attacks are a reminder of the continuing requirement for navies to develop concepts and deploy systems that protect their vessels from attacks in an increasingly lethal naval security environment.
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Naval Forces - Jan 2017
Patrol vessels are the fastest growing segment in the naval shipping building industry, a trend expected to continue as fleets retire obsolescent Cold War era assets and look toward platforms capable of supporting missions unforeseen only a few decades ago.
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Defense News - Apr 2016
Australia’s choice of French shipbuilding giant DCNS to lead the country’s ambitious 12-ship submarine construction program caught most observers by surprise. The quasi-government-owned DCNS — which often competes in international naval programs but rarely scores a major win — had been seen as an also-ran in competition with Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and the Japanese government for the lucrative, Australian $50 billion (US $38 billion, €33.2 billion) Future Submarine contract.
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Defense News - Apr 2016
TAIPEI - Taiwan is moving forward with the life extension program (LEP) for its two Dutch-built Sea Dragon-class (Zwaardvis Mk 2) submarines. The decision will have direct implications for Taiwan’s Indigenous Defense Submarine (IDS) program to build eight attack submarines.
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Defense News - Feb 2016
BAE Systems and Bangkok Dock have signed a new contract for the licensed construction of a second 90-meter offshore patrol vessel (OPV) for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN). BAE will supply the engineering support and advice during construction in Thailand, according to a BAE news release.
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Maritime Security - Jan 2016
From a 1960s fleet of wooden dhows and the odd patrol vessel, the pre-rejuvenated Omani navy (pictured above) sourced its naval assets mainly from the West in order to meet its requirements. Fast forward to 2016 and surface assets are coming from all corners, at an expense of approximately $1.4 billion and counting.
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ARMAMENT & TECHNOLOGY - Sep 2015
Unmanned maritime systems (UMS) have lagged behind their aerial counterparts
over the past two decades. This lag can be measured in technological development, operational capability, spending, or numbers of platforms fielded.
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Defense News - Jun 2015
TAIPEI — China's Navy will outnumber the largest competitor in the region — Japan — in the number of phased-array radar-equipped destroyers in 2018, if production continues on schedule.
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Industry Market - Apr 2015
The patrol vessel is a key platform in a nation's mix of maritime assets, Patrol vessels are typically the smallest, most numerous, and least complex part of country's maritime force mix, Patrol vessels also tend to be operated by a wide variety of agencies and services besides navies - marine police, customs services,
ministries of interior, and coast guards,
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Defense News - Apr 2015
TOKYO — Last month's commissioning of the Japanese helicopter carrier Izumo spearheads the buildup of Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) antisubmarine capabilities, analysts said.
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Focus Taiwan - Feb 2015
Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) A special investigation unit said Wednesday that the death of a Taiwanese arms broker who took kickbacks in Taiwan's procurement of Lafayette-class frigates from France in 1991 will not affect efforts to retrieve his illicit gains.
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Stars and Stripes - Dec 2014
BATH — Walking through Bath Iron Works’ sprawling shipyard, it’s difficult to reconcile the sight of thousands of workers building five massive Navy destroyers with the talk about potentially huge job losses in the not-too-distant future.
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Navy Profile - Sept 2013
The seven naval fleets belonging to the Mediterranean Dialogue nations, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia, are in the process of modernisation. The rejuvenation of some of the fleets means that a number of obsolescent warship classes of predominantly Soviet/Russian and Chinese origin will be replaced by more modern units, notably frigates, patrol vessels, support ships, and submarines...
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Reuters - Sep 2013
LONDON – After a quarter century of Middle Eastern land wars and a sharp fall in big powers' naval spending after the Cold War, sea power is back in vogue in response to the rise of China and Western reluctance to deploy ground troops in conflicts like Syria.
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Defense News - May 2013
SINGAPORE — Asia-Pacific nations are modernizing their surface and underwater naval capabilities by buying stealthy warships, attack submarines, patrol vessels, sensors, radars, missiles and unmanned systems.
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The Indian Express - May 2013
India and China will order 100 new naval ships and submarines each
by 2032 due to changing global security environment and increasing
reliance on the sea for trade in the strategic region, according to a
US-based naval consultancy.
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Federal Drive Show Blog - May 2013
The armed services are all wrestling with how to maintain mission and readiness in the most difficult budget position since the end of the cold war. The Navy, in theory at least, is supposed to be building toward a 313-ship fleet. But is that realistic given the 2012 budget agreement and the 2013 sequestration? We asked Guy Stitt, the president of the analysis and advisory firm AMI International in Bremerton, Wash. He pointed out a recent long-range ship-building plan issued by Sean Stackley, the assistant Navy Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition called for 313 ships.
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Defense News
TAIPEI — The Asia-Pacific will comprise 26 percent — nearly $200 billion — of global naval and maritime security builds in the next 20 years as complex relationships and rivalries drive procurements designed for particular regional challenges.
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Naval Plans - Mar 2013
As the Turkish Naval Force (TNF) updates its fleet with new domestically built
frigates, corvettes, patrol craft, landing ships, and submarines, the country's shipbuilding industry is undergoing a radical transformation...
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Warfare Concepts - Jan 2013
It is estimated that patrol and security craft in the 10-70m size range will continue to serve the world's Navies and Coast Guards in large numbers over the next 20 years. These platforms typically lack the sensor and operating range of
larger ships, limiting their operational effectiveness....
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NAVDEX CONVERGENCE
The Middle East remains a dynamic naval environment. States in the region are stepping-up investment to a wide spectrum of operational challenges. Latest 20-year forecasts for the 14 countries making up the Mid-East/North African region projects more then 600 new ships will be acquired.
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Defense News - Oct 2012
(DEFENSE NEWS 01 OCT 12) ... Wendell Minnick
As China celebrated the launch of its first aircraft carrier last week, images and video posted on the Internet raise new questions as to how far along the country has come in the development of its carrier capability.
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The Indonesian Navy - Sep 2012
The Beginning of a long modernisation process. In 2003, a Ministry of Defence White Paper, "Defending the Country: Entering the 21st Century" elevated both the status and funding levels of the Indonesian Navy...
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IMDEX - Sep 2012
Singapore, Sept 28, 2012 - (ACN Newswire) - The International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (IMDEX Asia) will return for its ninth edition from 14 to 16 May 2013 at the Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore. The biennial show, organised by Experia Events with the support of the Republic of Singapore Navy, is Asia Pacific's largest dedicated international maritime defence show and a major event in the international naval and maritime defence calendar.
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The Modernisation of the Romainan Navy - July 2012
The Romanian Navy strives to modernise amidst continuing fiscal pressures and reduced naval spending that has characterized the European naval market over the past several years...
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Naval Forces - Dec 2012
Naval Projections report by AMI International
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Defense News - April 2012
TAIPEI — Taiwan is planning to build an extended-range anti-ship missile, possibly a variant of the Hsiung Feng 3 (Brave Wind), to be deployed on the eastern side of the island and aimed west toward the Taiwan Strait and China’s coast, a Taiwan defense industry source said.
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Defense News - Feb 2012
LONDON and TAIPEI — Spool back a decade and the thought of finding a "made in South Korea" label on a fleet of British naval vessels would have been almost unthinkable.
Not any longer, though. Last week, Britain's Ministry of Defence decided to buy four military oilers from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) to meet its Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) program requirements in a deal worth 452 million pounds ($710 million).
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Monch.com - Jan 2012
The Gulf States Navies by Bob Nuget and Josh Cohen
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Reuters - Jan 2012
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Navy should boost production of high-end warships to protect the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base and ensure it is prepared for new challenges as the U.S. military focuses more on the Asia Pacific region, a senior Republican senator said on Wednesday .
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OMAN - Jun 2011
The visit of a Turkish anti-piracy fleet to Oman on Sunday represents a country keen to show its strength and forge closer links to the countries in the region. This will be an ideal opportunity to market their products, according to leading experts in naval maritime affairs.
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GLOBAL POST - May 2011
India is expected to invest nearly $50 billion to strengthen its naval forces over the next 20 years, adding 101 new warships, ranging from destroyers to nuclear submarines...
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NDTV - May 2011
Singapore: India is to invest US $46.96 billion as part of moves to boost up its naval forces over the next 20 years adding 101 new warships, ranging from sophisticated...
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Deccan Herald - May 2011
India is to invest USD 46.96 billion as part of moves to boost up its naval forces over the next 20 years adding 101 new warships, ranging from sophisticated destroyers to nuclear submarines.
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Defense News - Apr 2011
TAIPEI - Taiwan plans to begin building its first prototype of a stealthy S00-ton catamaran corvette in 2012 under the Hsun Hai (Swift Sea) program, Deputy Defense Minister Lin Yu-pao told legislators in April 18 testimony.
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Daily Press - Mar 2011
Just after the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange next Wednesday afternoon, Northrop Grumman Corp. will officially be out of the shipbuilding business...
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Newport News - July 2010
NEWPORT NEWS - If Northrop Grumman Corp. spins off its shipbuilding unit, both the company and its shareholders can expect to benefit, analysts said this week...
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Defense Talk - May 2009
Singapore: Asian states led by China, Japan and South Korea are expected to spend some 60 billion dollars to beef up their navies in the next five years, an industry analyst said...
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National Defense - 2006
A Russian corvette currently being built to patrol that country's coastal waters may not live up to the technological stature of the U.S. Navy's littoral combat ship...
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Ensign Stefania Cotei, USS Antietam (CG 54) Public Affairs
PHILIPPINE SEA (NNS) -- The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) led a Surface to Air Missile Exercise (SAMEX) during MultiSail 18 with U.S. forward-deployed naval forces and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces (JMSDF) March 10, in the Philippine Sea.
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Jane's Defense Weekly
UK defence chiefs have still to identify GBP4 billion (USDS.3 billion) in efficiency savings two years after being set the target in the country's last Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) in 2015.
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Defense News
TAIPEI, SEOUL AND MELBOURNE — Ninety percent of the world’s trade flows by sea and the majority of that through narrow, vulnerable straits such as Malacca, Singapore and Taiwan. This has forced the Asia-Pacific region to outspend all other nations, except the US, in procurement of ships and submarines.
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Defense News
TOKYO AND MELBOURNE – Last week’s agreement between Japan and Australia to jointly develop stealth submarine technology represents a major, perhaps even breakthrough, step for Japan as it seeks to normalize its defense posture, forging ever closer ties with Australia as both countries seek to balance Chinese expansionism.
The question now is how, or how far, can Japan capitalize on the intriguing potential the deal poses.
The June 11 agreement, following extensive talks between Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and their Australian counterparts, Julie Bishop and David Johnston, will see the two countries jointly develop a range of submarine technologies based mainly on Japan’s highly advanced air-independent propulsion (AIP) systems.
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Defense News
TAIPEI — In much of Southeast Asia, budgets are smaller and ambitions more limited compared with neighbors to the north, and many countries are trying to rid themselves of much older equipment. But Singapore and Vietnam are generally better equipped and have more extensive plans.
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Defense News
TAIPEI — The Asia-Pacific naval market is heating up, with massive quantities of new ships to boost regional navies in coming years.
According to AMI International, a US-based naval analysis firm, Asia-Pacific has already surpassed Europe as the world’s second largest naval market. AMI projects the region will spend $200 billion on new ships and submarines by 2032, making up roughly 25 percent of the global projected new ship market.
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Defense News
TAIPEI — China’s air defense identification zone in the East China Sea reaches beyond the military challenge it poses to the US and allies in the region, with insidious implications on continued US diplomatic, economic and political power in the Asia-Pacific, according to US experts on Chinese military strategy.
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S&H Magazine
lanned and ongoing ship procurement programs by countries in the East Mediterranean, North Africa and the Mid-East regions highlight the growing demand for advanced surface combatants such as frigates and destroyers...
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English.news.cn
SINGAPORE, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The Asia-Pacific region is now the world's second largest naval market, with projected spending of over 200 billion U.S.dollars in the next two decades on more than 1,000 ships, according to an overview by Experia, organizer of the International Maritime Defense Exhibition and Conference ( IMDEX) Asia.
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Defense News
TAIPEI — The Asia-Pacific will comprise 26 percent — nearly $200 billion — of global naval and maritime security builds in the next 20 years as complex relationships and rivalries drive procurements designed for particular regional challenges.
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Indian Express
... naval ships and submarines each by 2032 due to changing global security ... forces, said Bob Nugent, the vice-president of AMI International.
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Defense News
TAIPEI — The Asia-Pacific will comprise 26 percent — nearly $200 billion — of global naval and maritime security builds in the next 20 years as complex relationships and rivalries drive procurements designed for particular regional challenges...
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Defense News
TAIPEI — As U.S. and European defense budgets experience nervous breakdowns, the Asian market for new naval and coast guard ships to protect fisheries, commerce and littoral claims sees no slowdown...
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Air University Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center
The modernisation of the Romanian Navy: Assets, innovations and systems
2012 ; Bob Nugent ; Josh Cohen ; Naval Forces; vol 33 no 4; 2012; p59-62 illus por
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Defense News
The Pentagon wants to fill a number of top U.S. Air Force leadership positions, particularly in the area of acquisition. But with a presidential election in November looming, finding people to serve in those roles might be a pipe dream...
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Defense News
TAIPEI - As Western navies build fewer aircraft carriers, destroyers and submarines, Asian navies are moving in the opposite direction, ignoring the littorals with construction and procurement of larger warships and submarines...
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Financial Times
The financial world is obsessed with stock market gyrations and bond yields. But the numbers that matter in the long run are those of U.S. warships...
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Understandingwar
The Arab Spring has fomented increasing uncertainty in the Middle East, a circumstance in which Iran’s regional intentions are of increasing concern. U.S. attempts to isolate the regime are driven by concerns over Iran’s nuclear program, ...
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CNAS Video
Video interview of Bob Nugent AMI International. 19 May 2011
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RUSI.org
Will “Warships” Still be Relevant to Navies by 2025? If So, What Types of “Warship”, and to Whom?’ Bob Nugent, AMI Int’l 6 July 2011
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IMDEX
SINGAPORE - With navies in the Asia-Pacific boosting their capabilities, analysts forecast the region will invest more than US$175 billion (S$218 billion) on new ships...
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IMDEX
SINGAPORE : The Asia Pacific region now buys more naval defence ships and equipment than Europe, making it the second biggest market in the world after the US...
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Global Post
India is expected to invest nearly $50 billion to strengthen its naval forces over the next 20 years, adding 101 new warships, ranging from destroyers to nuclear submarines...
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General Dynamics
OTTAWA, ON, May 16, 2011 — General Dynamics Canada, a pioneer in the development of underwater acoustic processing systems, today announced the creation of a new Underwater Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (UW ISR) Centre of Excellence...
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General Dynamics
OTTAWA, ON, May 16, 2011 — General Dynamics Canada today announced it has been awarded an engineering support contract by SAAB AB for the continued integration of the Hydra multi-sensor sonar system on the Swedish navy’s newest Visby-class corvettes...
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General Dynamics
OTTAWA, ON, May 16, 2011 — General Dynamics Canada today announced the release of TrailBlazer, a high-frequency, high-resolution sonar system specifically designed for mine and obstacle avoidance (MOAS) on patrol vessels, corvettes, frigates and ...
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Defense News
Taiwan plans to build a new 'stealth' warship armed with guided-missiles next year in response to China's naval build-up, a top military officer and a lawmaker said April 18. Taiwan plans to build a new 'stealth' warship armed with guided-missiles next...
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CSIS
Iranian Warships in the Med. In an unprecedented maneuver, two ships of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN) entered the Mediterranean Sea on February 22, 2011...
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