NAC News – Edition – 279 HMCS Lloyd George (Minesweeper) and T279 Magdelan (West Isle Trawler)
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NOTICES
- GoFundMe for Admiral Norman’s Legal Defence (After 9 months1,265 people have contributed $163,820 towards the $200,00 goa)
- The RCN, CAF, RCAF, and Canada will say farewell to the workhorse of the RCAF, the CH-124 Sea King helicopter 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2018. Tickets are going fast, here are the programme details
- 6th Annual Vanguard ShipTech Forum Ottawa, ON 5 March 2019
- MARITECH Full Speed Ahead: Firing on all cylinders (Call for papers opportunity) Conference and Exhibition Ottawa ON April 23-25 2019
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CANADA
- RCN takes command role at TRIDENT JUNCTURE 18
- The Little Engineering Team that Can!
- The consequences of politicized procurement for Canada’s military
- Persian Gulf veteran’s family receives precedent-setting Memorial Cross
- Veterans Ombudsman Annual Report 2017/18 (Editor – slow downloading, but worth it)
- Tariffs, fees add $217M to price of three second-hand icebreakers
- Twice the price and just as nice: Irving’s Arctic patrol ship double the cost of previous five
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USA & AMERICAS
- Report to Congress on U.S. Role in the World
- US military ‘losing its competitive edge’
- Second Zumwalt Destroyer Michael Monsoor Leaves Bath Iron Works for California
- Navy Creating Attack Sub Aggressor Unit to Train to Fight Against Russia, China
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Nov. 13, 2018
- Navy Pitching Amphibious Warship Overhaul to Boost Lethality, Survivability
- US Navy to christen future USNS Puerto Rico expeditionary fast transport
- Navy Rushes To Check Contractors After Submarine ‘Debacle’
- Navy: Torpedo Tube-Launched Version of Razorback UUV Planned
- Carrier Eisenhower Leaves Repair Yard to Finish Maintenance at Naval Station Norfolk
- ★ One Year Later, Search For Missing Argentine Submarine Continues
- HII: Future Carrier John F. Kennedy Construction Costs Down, Ship Will Launch Next Year
- How the Fleet forgot to fight, pt. 6: Strategy and Operations
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INDO-PACIFIC
- David J. Bercuson: Why Japan is building its military, fast
- First Nuclear Deterrence Patrol Marks Major Step for Indian Submarine Force
- US tells China to remove missile systems in South China Sea
- Korean, Indian and Australian destroyers bringing up the rear
- DSME Awarded Contract to Build FFX Batch II Daegu-class Frigate 5 & 6 for ROK Navy
- US Navy has had 18 unsafe or unprofessional encounters with China since 2016
- Naval shipbuilding kicks off in Adelaide
- ★ Over 500,000 killed in America’s post 9/11 conflicts, study finds(Editor – sobering)
- ★ The aggregate failure of Australia’s submarine policy (Editor – excellent article, the opening has eerie similarities)
- Many Considered This Submarine a Total Failure. It Could Make a Big Comeback.
- What exactly is the Collins life of type extension? Part 1—A policy gap
- Here Comes the Swarm: China Just Unveiled a Robot Missile Boat
- AUTONOMOUS WARRIOR set for intensive fortnight
- Thailand’s move on KraCanal alarms New Delhi as route will boost Chinese Naval Power in Indian Ocean (Editor – interesting 7 min video)
- Cambodia at the center of a new Cold War
- Milestone reached for Aussie Evolved Sea Sparrow tech
- China and Myanmar Agree to $1.3 Billion Port Project
- US fighter jet crashes into sea off Japan
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- Video: AIS Animation Shows Collision Between Oil Tanker and Norwegian Frigate
- Norway warship Helge Ingstad ‘warned’ before collision (Editor – for perspective the tanker was the SOLA TS – a 113,00 tons crude oil tanker)
- Photos: Norwegian Frigate Continues Sinking
- Norwegian naval frigate now nearly totally submerged following accident
- BOA Management Readies to Lift Norwegian Sinking Frigate
- Admiral Kuznetsov’s bad luck strikes again – or how Russia may have lost its largest dry dock in the north
- Why the Russian Navy Could Be in Serious Trouble
- Blog – When a town in Arctic Norway transforms into “the world’s northernmost Chinatown”
- Russia suspected of jamming GPS signal in Finland
- Russia to start trials of large amphibious assault ship next year
- Naval squadron re-forms after 60 years to test cutting-edge weaponry
- British Royal Navy performs Chinook trials on RFA Tidesurge tanker
- Eighth Ice-Breaking LNG Carrier Heads to Yamal to Load Gas
- Mystic Cruises Orders Two Polar Expedition Ships
- First reactor started at Russia’s floating nuclear power plant
- Missing Unlit Dry Dock Turns Up in The Bahamas After More Than a Year at Sea
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MIDDLE EAST
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GLOBAL INTERESTS
- Pirates Fire at LNG Carrier off Nigeria
- Robots Are Coming – to Clean Cargo Holds
- Norden Tests New Robot for Cleaning Bulker Holds
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SCUTTLEBUTT
- Remembering Galiano
- ★ HMHS Llandovery Castle (Editor – While investigating HMCS Galliano’s sinking on the west coast, I wondered about the sinking on the east coast, and was reminded of this horrific story.)
- ★ Arctic Operations 1950-1957 (1958) US Navy Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS)
- Oil Removed from WWII Era Shipwreck
- Canada’s New Shipping Shortcut