NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER FOR BRAZILIAN NAVY The French defence giant DCNS is to help Brazil with the latest stage in its plan to create a navy to match its rising economic power and global status. News that Brazil is to construct an aircraft carrier emerged shortly before it was revealed France has given up its own ambitions to field the same kind of conventionally powered ship. It was thought a variant of the ...
Read moreDEPLOYMENTS ABANDONED IN THE FACE OF SEQUESTRATION AXE While the US Navy remains the world’s most powerful and prominently deployed maritime fighting force - active across the Seven ...
Read moreJAPAN’S FURY AS CHINESE WARSHIP LOCKS ON TO ITS DESTROYER Tensions between Tokyo and Beijing over disputed islands in the East China Sea took a dangerous twist when ...
Read moreCHINA SEA GRAB RAISES ALARM A map printed in six million new passports for its citizens clearly indicate Beijing’s ambition to expand territorial waters across almost the whole ...
Read moreUK TO OPERATE TWO CARRIERS The British government has staged a volte-face two years after declaring it would only ever operate one of the two new Queen Elizabeth Class ...
Read moreUSA LIFTS BAN ON KIWI SHIPS Washington has lifted a ban on New Zealand naval vessels visiting US naval and coast guard bases around the world. The ban was ...
Read moreASIA-PAC MARINES ARE ‘TIP OF SPEAR The US Marines Corps is to commit 22,000 troops west of the International Date Line (IDL), with a significant proportion of them deployed aboard ...
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