NAC News – Edition 247
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Rod Hughes – Editor NAC News
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NOTICES
- ★ GoFundMe for Admiral Norman’s Legal Defence (Editor – Admiral Norman goes to court next week, and as of 6 April, in two months 808 people have donated $98,450, the goal is $200,000)
- 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 here.
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CANADA
- NATO Secretary General to visit Canada
- ★ Comment: Russia case: This is the time for diplomacy
- HMCS Vancouver sets sail on Operation Projection
- Careful Consideration: Positioning the Next Canadian Frigates for the Fights of the Future
- ★ Why the Liberals really don’t want to talk about leasing icebreakers
- Danish Arctic patrol ship coming to Halifax
- RCN seeks Candidates for Skilled Re-Enrolment Initiative
- China’s Arctic rising
- Navy Mess Dinner: Huge celebration & big-time recognition
- Expanding Barge Transportation along the Lower St Lawrence River
- Exchange officer from the Ivory Coast Navy gains a new RCN family
- Littoral Combat Ship USS Little Rock Leaves Montreal After Three Months Trapped in Ice
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USA & AMERICAS
- Publication Release: Alternative Naval Force Structure
- ★ Weapons for anyone: Trump and the art of the arms deal
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: April 2, 2018
- USNI News Video: Sea Base USS Lewis B. Puller Finding Its Way in 5th Fleet
- NAVSEA Picks Swiftships LLC to Design, Build LCU Replacement in $18M Contract Award
- USS Nebraska Successfully Tests Trident II D5 Missile
- Could enemies target undersea cables that link the world?
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INDO-PACIFIC
- China’s Liaoning dovish as USS Theodore Roosevelt sails in
- North Korea sanctions: UN blacklists shipping firms
- Container Shipping: ONE Begins
- Panel: China Ratcheting Up Military Pressure Toward Taiwan
- Does ASEAN want the US Navy in the South China Sea?
- Ocean Signal Introduces New AIS Transponders (see link in Scuttlebutt)
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- ★ UK releases extra funding, but military relevancy challenges remain
- Chinese oilmen make big discovery in Russian Arctic waters
- New Chinese defense minister says China will ‘support’ Russia against US: Tass
- ★ The quest to map the mysteries of the ocean floor
- Royal Navy tanker RFA Tidesurge arrives in Cornwall
- Amidst Tensions, Russia Holds Naval Drills off Latvia
- Dutch Navy amphibious ship joins NATO operation Sea Guardian
- Submariners assemble at anniversary dinner
- Zamakona to Build Two Ships for Royal Arctic Line
- Restoring equilibrium: U.S. policy options for countering and engaging Russia
- Shipping faces demands to cut CO2
- Low sulphur fuel to cost box ship segment US$34Bn
- Record Year for Cruise Ship Introductions Begins
- Balearia’s 1st LNG-Fueled Ferry Hits the Water
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MIDDLE EAST & REST-OF-THE-WORLD
- China sends new naval fleet for escort mission
- Saudi oil tanker hit in Houthi attack off Yemen: coalition
- (S Korean) Destroyer, commandos heading to West Africa
- Antarctica ‘gives ground to the ocean’
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SCUTTLEBUTT
- HMCS Bonaventure – Canada’s Last Aircraft Carrier (tribute Video)
- Automated Identification System (AIS) (Given the earlier article about the release of a new AIS small ship system I thought you might like this link)
(Note the Great Lakes and the Mississippi) - All the New Aircraft Carriers That Are Under Construction, US, UK, China, India, Japan, Italy (YouTube video)
- Marty Klein: The Father of Side Scan Sonar