North Korea has threatened to attack U.S and South Korea warships that are in the waters near Koreas' disupted maritime border, just two days after firing nuclear test missiles. Meanwhile U.S Secretary of State,...
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China is set to join the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden. According to the BBC, three ships are preparing to steam to the waters off the coast of Africa to join the international effort against the...
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" BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Two Chinese destroyers and a supply ship will set sail for the Gulf of Aden on Friday to protect Chinese merchant ships from an increasing number of pirate attacks in the waters off the...
In reaction to unusual international media questioning over the recent Venezuelan-Russian joint naval exercises, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a strong clarification. "Russia sees no need to set up...
In the first ever military presence in the region after the end of the Cold War, Russia participated with Venezuela in a joint naval exercise called VenRus 2008. This military cooperation heralds the beginning of...
" U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack mocked the exercises, noting that Russia's navy is but a shadow of its Soviet-era fleet and reasserting U.S. dominance in the region. "Are they accompanied by tugboats this time?" he joked to reporters in Washington. "I...
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A couple of days agao it was Indian Navy that repeled attacks from pirates off the cost of Somalia in the gulf of aden and today it was the turn of British and Russian Navy to get into action to save a danish vessel from the clutches of Pirates.CUrrently there are more than a...
Pirates, no indication to surrenderU.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser monitors the pirated Ukrainian cargo ship Faina in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia, carrying T-72tanks. Six U.S. warships circled the...
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The Somali pirates being confronted by a coalition of the worlds' navies off the Africa coast have been surrounded by three warships: one Russian, one American, and one unknown. "Somali pirates aboard a ship...
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Russian revival started showing its face on geo political mirror of world. Russian warships set sail on Monday for manoeuvres in the Caribbean area calculated to demonstrate to the United States...
" "That`s why we will buy them in stages, maybe two in the first stage," he said after a function marking the transfer of post of the Naval Chief of Staff from Admiral Sumadjono at the Eastern Indonesian Fleet Command Headquarters here on Friday. The Navy used to have a...
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Any research including the words "cloak" and "impervious" is automatically awesome. Actually, even without those words of power, this is pretty cool."Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an "acoustic cloak", which could make objects impervious to sound waves.The...
"Eastern Fleet commander Vice Admiral Lili Supramono is leading the taskforce moving the location of the joint military exercise which has its headquarters on the Indonesian warship KRI Surabaya-591.Eastern Fleet chief spokesman Lt Col Toni Syaiful said that the 34 warships...
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It's been more than a month since the cyclone that devastated burma hit, and the government has still not allowed the US and French military ships with aid docked just outside to come in. Now the US ship is leaving, and the Myanmar government has arrested yet another...
Washington (ANTARA News) - A US warship is moving into position to try to shoot down an out-of-control US spy satellite as early as Wednesday before it tumbles into the Earth's atmosphere, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.Armed with two specially modified interceptor missiles,...
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