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News Digest from the April 2012 Edition

ERA OF THE TYPHOON MONSTER BOAT IS OVER If news coming out of Russia is to be believed, the legendary Typhoon Class ballistic missile boats will soon no longer prowl the deep. It is claimed that the Kremlin has decided to abandon plans to modernise two of the boats – known as Typhoons in the West, but Akulas in Russia - while the third surviving operating example will continue for a few years as ...

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News Digest from the March 2012 Edition

RAN BOSS ENTERS ‘SEA BLIND’ DEBATE Vice Admiral Ray Griggs addressed the challenge of connecting the Australian general population to the sea, and also important challenges in modernising the ...

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News Digest December 2011

TEHRAN TO CREATE ‘STRIKE CARRIERS’ Iran is reportedly intending to design and build aircraft carriers. An Iranian newspaper has quoted Deputy Navy Commander Captain Mansour Maqsoudlou expressing his fleet’...

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News Digest September 2011

UK WARSHIP OPENS FIRE IN GULF A Royal Navy warship was forced to fire warning shots across the bows of a high-speed craft that was acting in a menacing ...

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News Digest August 2011

NORTH KOREA STILL POSES CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER The uniformed head of the American armed forces has warned that North Korea has showed no signs of either giving up ...

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