To follow up on Dave's post about the Royal Navy, it appears that the first steel has been cut for Queen Elizabeth, the first of the RN's new big deck carriers.The debate on defence budgeting in the UK is a good deal healthier and more...
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Fascinating; the unscientific popular choice for the name of China's first aircraft carrier is Mao Zedong:But which was the runaway favorite in two polls conducted earlier this month? Mao Zedong.He.
MRG forwarded me this piece this morning. I had seen it previously and intended to refrain from comment, but... you know. In general, it's best not to get one's defense.
Apparently there is still some controversy. The standard story is this; a flight of torpedo bombers approached the Japanese task force, and was massacred by Japanese combat air patrol. That CAP was then in poor position to fend off an attack made shortly thereafter by...
Matt points out that Eliot Spitzer has become a shill for our robot would-be overlords. Even more alarming, Josh Keating posts the graph to the left, indicating international robot density.The.
The government of India has more important things on its plate right now, but if you're interested in how the Admiral Gorshkov negotiations might play out, take a look at.
NYT:A high-ranking Chinese military official has hinted that China’s fast-growing navy is seeking to acquire an aircraft carrier, a move that would surely stoke tensions with the United States military and its allies in Asia.China has been floating rumours of aircraft carrier construction for at...
...do not buy aircraft carriers from Russia. These photographs are pretty awesome (even seen an aircraft carrier in the middle of a field of snow?), but do not fill one.
The United Kingdom is considering pulling out of the F-35 project:BRITAIN is considering pulling out of a £9 billion project with America to produce the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
Yglesias points out this report from the Center for American Progress on sea-based ballistic missile defense, in which Andrew Grotto and Rebecca Grant argue for continued funding of research and development into AEGIS based ballistic missile defense systems. I can't really disagree with that conclusion,...
Via ID, it appears that the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is deploying from Murmansk to the Mediterranean. The expectation seems to be that she will operate (at least for.
A couple of aircraft carrier related links for your afternoon...Via Danger Room, Martin Sieff has a new series at UPI on the vulnerability of carriers to submarine attack. Galrahn has.