NAC News – Edition 242
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Rod Hughes
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- UNTD Link correction – one of our avid readers noted that the link to the UNTD website was incorrect due to a “cut and paste” error in an earlier edition of the News. We were missing the .org. The correct link is:
http://untd.org - My thanks to Eric Griffiths (NAC-VI) for maintaining a webpage with an archive of previous NAC News Editions. While not all the links may still exist for every article we post, those that are can be found within the NAC News Edition archive at:
http://nac-vi.ca/news/
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CANADA
- Windsor Sails for Exercise Dynamic Manta in Mediterranean
- Masts Installed on Harry DeWolf (great pics)
- Navy ship spills fuel off B.C. coast, cleanup underway
- Canada releases list of eligible future fighter suppliers
- Media Advisory – Governor General to Present Honours at Rideau Hall (Navy names to celebrate in this list!)
- Freakish Warming Causes Arctic Temperatures to Rise Nearly 40 Degrees Above Normal
- Stranded U.S. sailors help out at Montreal mission
- New Online career tool for exiting military members
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USA & AMERICAS
- Argentine Coast Guard Fires On Chinese Fishing Vessel
- USNI News Fleet Tracker: Feb. 26, 2018
- Zukunft: Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker RFP to be Released Friday
- U.S. Navy officials fired after leader found naked and drunk in the woods
- Panel: Advocates for Jones Act Reform See Best Chance in Decades
- Breaking the Anti-Ship Missile Kill Chain
- US Navy awards Boeing $73m contract to start Super Hornet service life extension
- Op/Ed: Safeguarding Our Marine Transportation System
- Argentina sub: ARA San Juan relatives to crowdfund new search
- US Navy to christen future USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10)
- Disabled Bulker Towed to Seattle after Engine Room Blast
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INDO-ASIA PACIFIC
- N Korea ‘providing materials to Syria chemical weapons factories’
- Photos: North Korean Ship-to-Ship Fuel Transfer
- China senses and acts on US weakness in South China Sea
- US Prepares High-seas Crackdown on N.Korea Sanctions Evaders
- India and the South China Sea (Discussion piece on NAC LinkedIn)
- The Real Significance of India’s MILAN Navy Exercise
- Indian Navy Agrees To Buy four Russian Frigates For $3 Billion (Youtube Video)
- China eyes building nuclear-powered aircraft carriers
- Hard Japan versus comfortable Japan
- Vietnam Ambassador to United States visits USS George HW Bush (CVN 77)
- Pacific Partnership Mission Prepares to Enhance Disaster Response Cooperation, Strengthen Ties in Indo-Asia-Pacific
- PLA fleet returns to homeport from far-sea training
- World’s First LNG-Fuelled Bulk Carrier Delivered
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- ★ Putin boasts of new Russian nuclear weapons
- Royal Marines launch ‘assault’ from HMS Queen Elizabeth
- USS Virginia wraps up six-month deployment to Europe
- Russia’s Arctic Ambitions held back by economic troubles
- Russian “spy ship task group” reaches North Sea
- Rolls-Royce to Supply Propellers and Mission Bay Technology for UK Royal Navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship
- Safety concerns for electric ships – is the industry doing enough?
- HMS Forth welcomed to her home port of Portsmouth
- Falling Rocks Closes Corinth Canal for Ships
- Total Lubmarine debuts Environmentally Lubricant
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MIDDLE EAST & REST-OF-THE-WORLD
- ★ Syria war: Who are Russia’s shadowy Wagner mercenaries?
- Israeli Navy Kills Palestinian after Boat Breaches Sailing Limit
- DP World Moves Ahead with Suez Canal Industrial Zone
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SCUTTLEBUTT
- Royal Navy Association (interesting to see somewhat a kindred organization)
- Who owns the South China Sea? | CNBC Explains
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