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 Greeneville accident 'not totally avoidable'  A
US Navy investigation is underway to determine how a Japanese fisheries
training vessel was sunk off Hawaii on 9 February when it was struck by
the
Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine (SSN) USS Greeneville. However,
while the SSN's commanding officer at the time, Cdr Scott Waddle, must accept
full responsibility for the accident as the commander of a submerged submarine,
the accident itself cannot be said to be totally avoidable. 12/02/01 
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ARTICLES:Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine (SSN) Market Review: Jane's Fighting Ships 2000-2001 Death of a destroyer escort  Recorded
in this startling
series of images recently passed on to janes.com are the last, violent
moments of the former Royal Australian Navy destroyer escort Torrens. The
images demonstrate most graphically what happens to a 2700-ton warship when
struck by a modern torpedo.
BACKGROUND LINKS: Slideshow of Mk 48 torpedo firing Firing Vessel: Collins Class submarine (From Jane's Fighting Ships) Torpedo: Mk 48 ADCAP (Advanced Capability) torpedo (From Jane's Underwater Warfare Systems) Search Defence Industry Database for "Mk 48 torpedo" 05/02/01 CVN 77 contract paves way for next carrier class  The
US Navy has taken its first step in the staged evolution of the projected
new design CVNX carrier, awarding Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) a $3.8
billion contract for the design and build of CVN 77, the 10th and last Nimitz-class
aircraft carrier. 05/02/01
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ARTICLES:Market Review: Jane's Fighting Ships 2000-2001 Turkey's Mil Gem faces problems All but two of the companies that had expressed an initial interest in Turkey's estimated $1.5 billion Mil Gem (National Vessel) corvette project failed to respond to a Request for Proposals (RfP). 29/01/01
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ARTICLES:Market Review: Jane's Fighting Ships 2000-2001 Hawkeye fixes gaze on emerging missions  Thirty
years young, the Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye carrier-borne airborne early
warning and control aircraft has been continuously evolved to meet new mission
requirements. Richard Scott reports on how this 'Darwinian' development
should keep advanced variants of the Hawkeye in service well beyond 2020.
26/01/01
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ARTICLES:Jane's Aircraft Upgrades: Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye 2000 Upgrade FRANCE - New BANG for carrier strike aircraft  A
new high-explosive bomb, built to 'insensitive munition' standards and known
as BANG (Bombe Aéronavale de Nouvelle Génération),
has been operational with the French Navy's Aeronavale since November 2000,
writes Michael J Gething. 24/01/01  RELATED
ARTICLES:New-generation French bomb will join navy first Blue Team reveals DD-21 design details  The
Blue Team, which includes General Dynamics (GD), Lockheed Martin and Northrop
Grumman, last week revealed the first details of its bid to build the DD-21
Zumwalt-class land attack destroyer. 16/01/01
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ARTICLES:DD-21 receives Phase 2 funds Rethink of DD-21 design is urged SEARCH THE WEB FOR RELATED DOCUMENTS: Search Defence Forces Database for "DD-21" Search Defence Industry Database for "DD-21" Internet drives survey vessels to deeper depths The massive growth in telecommunications, mostly spawned by the Internet, has led to a corresponding demand for the means of transporting those communications - some 90 per cent of this is by subsea fibre optic cables. Right now there are huge cable-laying projects both underway or planned. 22/01/01  RELATED
LINK:Jane's Catalogue: Jane's Survey Vessels. Cole attack highlights inadequate security  Before
the 12 October attack on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer
USS Cole (DDG-67), US forces in the region were not sufficiently protected,
a US Department of Defense (DoD)-appointed commission has found. 16/01/01
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ARTICLES:US Navy personnel killed in attack on USS Cole in Aden ATTACK ON US SHIP SHOWS VULNERABILITIES Egyptian Navy orders four Ambassador MK III PCFGs  The Egyptian Navy has placed an order in excess of $400 million for four new Fast Attack Craft - Missile (PCFG). The four Ambassador MK III PCFGs will be built by the USA's Halter Marine, a subsidiary of Friede Goldman Halter, at its Mississippi facilities, with construction expected to begin in the second quarter of this year. 11/01/01
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ARTICLES:Egypt bolsters navy Special Report- Jane's Middle East/Africa News AH-1Z Super Cobra flies  The
first Bell
Helicopter Textron AH-1Z Super Cobra for the US Marine Corps made its
first flight from the company's Flight Research Center at Fort Worth, Texas,
on 7 December 2000, writes Michael J Gething. 10/01/01 RELATED
ARTICLES:Bell rolls out first AH-1Z Super Cobra for USMC. Defence Gallery AH-1Z Super Cobra India under fire over delay in carrier upgrade India's Parliamentary Def- ence Committee has criticised the government for the delays in modernising the Indian Navy's lone aircraft carrier, INS Viraat. The committee, which tabled its report in Parliament on 18 December, said that by delaying Viraat's modernisation the government has failed to appreciate the magnitude of the threat in the north Arabian Sea. 02/01/01
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ARTICLES:Refit for Indian carrier US Navy and Marines expand their expeditionary horizons  Mention
'expeditionary' to many people and their vision is of Marines weighed down
with equipment, struggling through the surf to face defensive positions.
This thinking is out of date, as Scott C Truver explains. 21/12/00
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ARTICLES:Market Review: Jane's Amphibious Warfare Capabilities France boosts amphibious capabilities  France
has placed a FFr3.5 billion ($472 million) order for two 21,000-tonne displacement
Nouveaux Transports de Chalands de Debarquement (NTCD) multi-purpose amphibious
ships for the French Navy. State-owned warship builder Directions des Constructions
Navales (DCN) will be prime contractor for the new ships, to be built in
conjunction with commercial shipbuilder Chantiers de l'Atlantique.20/12/00
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ARTICLES:France budgets to keep all its major projects France expands reach as carrier takes up role India planning to lease Russian SSN India is examining the possibility of leasing a Russian nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) to help bolster the development of its Advanced Technology Vessel intended to form a key component of its nuclear deterrent. 20/12/00
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ARTICLES:Market Review: Underwater Technology 2000-2001 Market Review: Underwater Warfare Systems 2000-2001 Russian Navy: Assessment Guidance and tracking upgrade for UK Seawolf  Type
22 and Type 23 frigates of the Royal Navy (RN) are to receive an upgrade
to the tracking and guidance system for its Matra BAe Dynamics (MBD) Seawolf
air defence missile system. 21/12/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:Technology Insertion: US CEC for UK Type 23 frigates. Market Review: Fighting Ships 2000-2001 UK plans new minesweeping capability The UK Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) in January 2001 plans to issue an invitation to tender for the Assessment Phase of the Royal Navy's projected Replacement Influence Minesweeping System (RIMS) programme. 06/12/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:'Mine conscious' surface ships back on the agenda - Advancing to organic systems Hornet upgrade programme accelerates  As
the US Navy (USN) and Marine Corps (USMC) are preparing to upgrade the structure
on some of their Boeing (formerly McDonnell Douglas) F/A-18C/D Hornets,
other international operators are also modernising their aircraft. 05/12/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Canada's Hornet upgrade restructured Super Hornet success depends on upgrades Propeller blade incident leads to carrier recall French naval authorities fear the new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will be unable to join France's fleet until next spring. This follows an incident that forced it to break off its first long-distance trials in the North Atlantic and return to port on 9 November. 22/11/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:Safety checks force UK submarine recall Defence Gallery: Charles de Gaulle France expands reach as carrier takes up role Rolls-Royce powers up for Type 45 A Rolls-Royce/Northrop Grumman team is to supply its new WR-21 intercooled recuperated marine gas turbine for the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) Type 45 Daring-class destroyer programme after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) decided to set aside the industry-run competition for the ship's prime movers. 13/11/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:Type 45 programme steams ahead New gas turbine engine enters final test phase Norwegian design France expands reach as carrier takes up role  As
of mid-October, the French Navy's long-awaited new aircraft carrier Charles
de Gaulle (R 91) had taken up its place in the fleet - more than four years
later than planned (mainly because of budget cuts) and at a final price
tag of Ffr20 billion (US$2.8b). However, when the nuclear-powered, DCN-built
ship finally sailed into Toulon Naval Base early last month, it brought
with it a power projection capability never before seen in a French carrier.02/11/00  RELATED
ARTICLES:Naval Forces Gallery:Charles de Gaulle More delays for French Navy's Charles de Gaulle Carrier changes will cost France dearly French decision soon on second aircraft carrier French Government urged to provide funding for second carrier January flaw in French carrier may prove more severe Power fault foils French carrier sea debut Aeronavale faces multirole challenge...  French
naval aviation (known as the Aeronavale) is wrestling with the operational
crew concept for its planned fleet of 60 Dassault Rafale M multirole fighter
aircraft.02/11/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:...as French Navy gets the go-ahead for two-seater Rafales ...as French Navy gets the go-ahead for two-seater Rafales The French Navy has been given the green light to change its order for the naval variant of Rafale to ensure that up to 40 of the 60 fighters it intends to buy will be two-seat aircraft. Under the original contract with manufacturer Dassault Aviation all were to have been single-seat fighters. 02/11/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:Dassault's Rafale fighter French Navy to order twin-seat Rafale BMs Jane's Aircraft Upgrades Market Review 1998 - 1999 (Dassault Rafale) Aeronavale faces multirole challenge... Torpedo upgrades from Russia Upgraded Type 53 (TEST-71) 533mm torpedoes are available from Russia's Dvigitel state unitary enterprise plant, the newest version of which is in service with the Russian Navy; the company also told JDU that 15 units have been sold to China and eight to India. 01/11/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:Other Articles from Defendory International: HAF C-130 avionics upgrade shortlist Chilean M101/33 howitzers in service Czech pontoon bridge strengthened New tip for Polish tank ammo US Navy redefines LCAC SLEP The first of the US Navy's (USN's) Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) hovercraft to go through a service life extension programme (SLEP) at Textron Marine Systems (see JDU Vol III No.7 p2), LCAC-91, is expected to be delivered this December. 01/11/00  RELATED
ARTICLES:SLEP replaces SRP for US Navy P-3C Orions Safety checks force UK submarine recall All 12 of the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) Swiftsure- and Trafalgar-class nuclear attack submarines (SSNs) have been withdrawn from service pending an investigation into their pressurised water reactor (PWR) cooling circuits. 01/11/00 RELATED
ARTICLES:UK looks ashore for nuclear submarine disposal
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