NAC News – Edition 241
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- Footwear collector, philanthropist Sonja Bata remembered for passion, generosity (Mrs. Bata was a HCapt(N) for many years and the sponsor for HMCS OTTAWA)
- 2018 Battle of the Atlantic Gala Dinner at the Canadian War Museum on Thursday 3 May 2018. NAC members who wish to attend may register on or after March 1.
- Admiral Mark Norman Legal Defence – GoFundMe
- Welcome to Canada’s Global Defence and Security Trade Show (EY Centre
4899 Uplands Drive in Ottawa, Ontario on May 30 – 31, 2018)
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CANADA
- A Basic Primer on Naval Shipbuilding (repeat)
- CDA Institute issues the 2018 Strategic Outlook for Canada
- The Cyclone Helicopter and the ‘Sonar Snafu’
- Global Container Terminals orders 10 more Konecranes RTGS for its terminals in British Columbia
- Canada’s Chance to Save Our Oceans from Choking in Plastic
- Introducing next Chamber of Shipping of BC President Robert Lewis-Manning (note, retired RCN Commander)
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USA & AMERICAS
- USNI NewsFleet Tracker: Feb. 22, 2018
- Document: 2018 U.S. Worldwide Threat Assessment
- Navy awards design contracts for future frigate
- Navy Signs $1.4B Contract with Ingalls Shipbuilding for 13th San Antonio
- 2nd Expeditionary Sea Base USNS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams Delivers to Navy
- ★ Venezuela’s refugee crisis will exceed Syria’s; we must help
- Sea Control 146 – Former German Navy Chief Lutz Feldt on defining maritime security Part 1
- US Navy’s Beleaguered Zumwalt Stealth Destroyers to Get New Weapons
- Mysterious Uranium Particle Appears Over Alaska
- Maritime industry readies for a new era of choice with Iridium Certus global launch partners
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INDO-ASIA PACIFIC
- Patriotic movie co-produced by PLA Navy hits screens on Chinese New Year
- Japan may buy up to 40 vertical takeoff F-35B fighters
- ★ India and the South China Sea
- ★ Chinese warships enter East Indian Ocean amid Maldives tensions
- ★ India’s choice in the Maldives (background for above article)
- Duterte to China: ‘if you want, just make us a province’
- A “Logistics in War Primer” Logistics and the Art of Command
- China launches third Type C13B corvette for Bangladesh Navy
- USS Carl Vinson pulls into Manilla
- GTT Bags Order for Three LNG Carriers, One Bunkering Vessel
- Indian Navy set to acquire complete submarine rescue system in June 2018 from UK’s JFD
- Seychelles protects an area ‘as big as Britain’ in Indian Ocean
- HMS Sutherland remembers Australia’s greatest naval tragedy
- Oil from Sunken Tanker Sanchi Reached Japan’s Shores
- South Pacific looks to China as West turns away
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- Two U.S. Guided-missile Destroyers Now Operating in the Black Sea
- Restoring equilibrium: U.S. policy options for countering and engaging Russia
- Eco Ships: The New Norm for Top Tier Ships
- Turkish Blockade off Cyprus ‘out of Eni’s control’
- Germany and Greece: Worst Vessels Dumpers
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MIDDLE EAST & REST-OF-THE-WORLD
- Study reveals fishing’s startling global footprint: ‘It totally blows me away’
- Syria conflict: Will powers end up in direct war?
- UN warns of rising food insecurity across Africa
- Seas to rise about a metre even if climate goals are met: study
- Kuwait Receives Initial Approval to Buy Fast Patrol Boats
- Is it now time for a Category 6 hurricane?
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