NAC News – Edition 251

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Rod Hughes – Editor NAC News

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NOTICES

• ★   GoFundMe for Admiral Norman’s Legal Defence (Editor – VAdm Norman’s next court date is 15 May at 1400, and again on the 16th early in the AM, 916 people have contributed $112,100 of $200,00 goal…”DOLPHIN 53” (or G.O.Y.A.) key below in Scuttlebutt)
• UNTDA – 75th Anniv. Reunion – Sept 9-12, 2018 – St John’s, NL – Registration now open
• Navy Commander Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd to open maritime conference 
  (MSC 18 “Pacific Seapower” on 15-18 Oct Victoria BC)

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CANADA

• Canada to join international effort to deter North Korean smuggling
• ★   Use It or Lose It: SSE and DND’s Chronic Underspending Problem
• A Litmus Test for Defence Procurement
• Visit of Canadian Frigate to Cuba Joins Both Countries
• Visiting Canadian frigate steers clear of freedom-of-navigation
• Royal Canadian Navy ships return after counter-drug mission
• Canadian naval monument to be unveiled Friday 
• New Book Details Polar Operations (Editor – note Canadian author Duke Snider, a must read if you truly wish to understand arctic maritime activities)
• U.K. Gives Franklin Wrecks to Canada
• Family of Canadian naval pilot at peace, 60 years after disappearance
• Tiny-home communities planned for homeless Canadian veterans
• Aframax tankers are safest ships in BC (comments from NAC member Rob Allen)
  

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  USA & AMERICAS

• Senate Confirms Adm. Phil Davidson to Lead Pacific Command  Sorry To Break The News, But A U.S.-Led World War III Is Imminent 
• A deckplate review: How the submarine force can reach its warfighting potential, PT 1 
• USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: April 30, 2018
• US’ New Aircraft Carrier 75% Structurally Complete
• Sizing up the US Navy’s future Guided Missile Frigate designs
• Navy Accepts Delivery of Latest Littoral Combat Ship Tulsa
• Navy Increases Tour Lengths for First Time Forward Deployed Sailors
• Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center’s Role Evolving as Warfare Advocate, Trainer
• 10 SEALs Set to be Separated from the Service for failing Drug Tests; Investigation Underway
• Panama Canal Increases Maximum Beam for Ships Using Neopanamax Locks
• Panama Canal Welcomes Inaugural Transit of LNG Sakura
• PHOTOS: Texas City Hosts First Supertanker
• Lifting Gear Hire Company

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INDO-PACIFIC

• China threatens Taiwan, but how far will Beijing go?
• Korea summit: When war ends but peace is out of reach
• Just asking! Trump seeks opinions on Twitter for Korea meeting
• Izumo-class destroyers deemed fit to carry F-35B aircraft, if remodelled
• Chinese naval fleet sets sail for Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo 2018
• China Installs Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles on South China Sea Outposts –Report
• Australia And Canada To Monitor North Korean Ships
• China’s naval shipbuilding: delivering on its ambition in a big way
• Consensus conundrum and peace in the Taiwan Strait
• ★   A sovereign defence industry for Australia
• Singapore receives fifth Littoral Mission Vessel
• As US withdraws, Japan and China become mainstays of SE Asia FDI
• ★   Panel: China Investing in Infrastructure Near the Arctic
• Maersk Supply Service AHTS Embarks on Deep Sea Mining Study in Pacific
• Ship Photos of the Day – Japan’s Giant Pink Ships
• Hikawa Maru Celebrates 88 Years
• NGO Shipbreaking Platform: 152 Ships Broken Up on South Asia’s Beaches in First Quarter of 2018
• Australia to fund Great Barrier Reef restoration and protection
• Direct thrust means there is no need for intermediate drive shaft
• MH370 search uncovered shipwrecks from 19th Century

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ATLANTIC & EUROPE

• Reports: Russian Fighter Conducts ‘Unprofessional’ Intercept of U.S. Navy P-8A Over Baltic
• Russian Navy to get improved Borei-class nuclear submarine in 2019
• ★   Russia Launches World’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant
• Truman Transits Strait of Gibraltar, Enters Mediterranean Sea
• Royal Navy launches flagship initiative in Year of Engineering

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MIDDLE EAST

• Israel says Iran hid nuclear arms programme

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GLOBAL ISSUES

• Sentinel tracks ships’ dirty emissions from orbit
• Thwaites Glacier: Biggest ever Antarctic field campaign

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SCUTTLEBUTT

• (Editor – NAC-VI recently had an excellent lunch presentation from Alex Rubin the Executive Director of the Association of British Columbia Marine Industries; the ABCMI website is worth a look (tap “Learn More”))
  (Is there a similar Association on the East Coast?)