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  • US approves $180m sale of advanced torpedoes to Taiwan;

    05/21/2020 8:14:09 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    Al Jazeera ^ | 05/21/2020
    The United States approved a $180m sale of heavyweight torpedoes to Taiwan, the State Department said on Wednesday, in a move that is likely to further strain ties between Washington and Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own. Approval for submarine-launched weapon sale comes on same day President Tsai Ing-wen was inaugurated for a second term. The US framed the sale as a mutually beneficial transaction. "This proposed sale serves US national, economic, and security interests by supporting the recipient's continuing efforts to modernise its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability," the State Department said. The sale...
  • N. Korea: More Info on the N. Korean Explosion Site(is a major military supply node)

    04/22/2004 11:28:07 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 38 replies · 209+ views
    KBS1 Radio(AM) ^ | 04/23/04 | N/A
    More Info on N. Korean Explosion Site(A recent defector's take) KBS1 Radio around 1pm in S. Korean time interviewed a recent N. Korean defector(refugee) from Shinuiju, located 10 miles north of Ryongchon, where the massive blast was believed to have killed or wounded 3,000 people yesterday. He says: (1) A lot of cargos are hauled in Ryongchon these days. Other established site like Yongju station does not have enough capacity to handle them all the time. Freight cars which cannot find their parking space are often parked in Ryongchon. Significant part of supplies destined for N. Korea from China went...
  • 140 years since the first successful torpedo attack today.

    140 years ago, Imperial Navy was the first in the world to use torpedoes in combat. The attack was carried out within the framework of the Russo-Turkish War and proved the effectiveness of torpedoes for conducting combat operations. More details about the development of torpedoes and their first application are told by Gazeta.ru. In 1877 another Russian-Turkish war began. It was ignited, in particular, by the rise of the national liberation movement in the Balkans and the aggravation of international contradictions in this connection. Russia supported the fraternal Slavic peoples in the Balkans. Attempts to resolve the conflict diplomatically did...
  • USS Nimitz Fifth Carrier Armed with Anti-Torpedo Weapon

    10/12/2016 11:34:15 AM PDT · by Enchante · 23 replies
    Seapower Magazine ^ | October 11, 2016 | RICHARD R. BURGESS
    ARLINGTON, Va. — When the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz emerged from an extended period in a shipyard last week, it featured a new installation of an anti-torpedo system. Nimitz is the Navy’s fifth carrier to have the Anti-Torpedo-Defense System installed. The system includes the Torpedo Warning System, an acoustic sensor that detects an incoming torpedo; a tactical control station; and the Countermeasure Anti-Torpedo (CAT). The CAT, a small torpedo designed to intercept an incoming torpedo, was developed by Pennsylvania State University’s Applied Research Lab. Compared with air- or ship-launched cruise missiles, anti-ship torpedoes are much more difficult for a...
  • Iran Threatens To Torpedo US Carriers In The Persian Gulf

    01/19/2012 10:28:22 AM PST · by Strategy · 44 replies
    Business Insider ^ | January 18, 2012
    Underscoring its desire to keep U.S. aircraft carriers from the Persian Gulf, a senior Iranian military commander today announced his possible plan to ambush the American fleet. Chalk this one up to more bluster, or part of a mounting back and forth rhetoric headed nowhere good, either way - Tehran plans to rely on its subs. Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army's Self-Sufficiency Jihad, Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri told Fars that Iran has the finest electic diesel submarines in the world, and that while the U.S. has focused on Tehran's "astonishing surface capabilities," it has forgotten about the underwater threat....
  • Australia to receive 200 MK 54 torpedoes from DSCA

    10/07/2010 10:58:03 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 1 replies
    Brahmand.com ^ | 10/8/2010 | Brahmand.com
    The Government of Australia has plans to procure up to 200 MK 54 All-Up-Round Torpedoes from US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) under the Foreign Military Sale (FMS) programme. Under the $169 million contract, DSCA will also provide 179 mk 54 flight in air material kits, 10 mk 54 exercise sections, 10 mk 54 exercise fuel tanks, 10 mk 54 dummy torpedoes, 6 mk 54 ground handling torpedoes, support and test equipment to upgrade intermediate maintenance activity to MK 54. According to the DSCA, the agreement will also provide technical and logistics support services and other related elements of logistics...
  • Taiwan eyeing U.S. tanks, torpedoes

    07/20/2010 7:39:38 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 10 replies
    UPI ^ | 7/21/2010 | UPI
    Taiwan is planning to purchase torpedoes and heavy tanks from the United States in an attempt to further fortify its defense capabilities against China. The Liberty Times reported that Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou ordered the country's defense ministry to draft a draw up a shopping list of weapons that include MK-54 torpedoes, dozens of M1A2 tanks and amphibious landing vehicles. If acquired, the Taipei daily reported, the torpedoes will be used to replace Taiwan's aging MK-46s. The decision comes despite an easing of tense relations between China and Taiwan in recent years. The move also follows a decision by the...
  • South Korea to produce Red Shark torpedoes

    09/18/2009 4:53:04 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 3 replies · 470+ views
    UPI ^ | 8/21/2009 | UPI
    South Korea has given the production go-ahead for the first 70 Hongsangeo anti-submarine torpedoes for deployment between 2010 and 2012, the government has said. Up to 70 of the long-range ship-to-submarine light torpedoes, called Red Shark in English, will be operational aboard some of South Korea's newest country's destroyers, the KDX-I/II, according to the procurement agency Defense Acquisition Program Administration. After nine years of development, the final tests were completed earlier this year, the DAPA's sister organization the state-funded Agency for Defense Development announced in June. Deployment is in response to a growing threat from North Korean submarines, the ADD...
  • Shock tactics to destroy torpedoes

    10/07/2005 10:15:04 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 146 replies · 2,241+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 10/6/05 | Paul Marks
    THE US navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them. The ships would be equipped with arrays of 360 transducers each 1 metre square - effectively big flat-panel loudspeakers - running along either side of the hull below the waterline. When the ship's sonar detects an incoming torpedo, the transducers simultaneously fire an acoustic shock wave of such intensity that the torpedo either detonates early or is disabled by the pulse's crushing force, according to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is funding...
  • The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, Jr. - Nov. 15th, 2004

    11/14/2004 11:09:04 PM PST · by SAMWolf · 68 replies · 2,246+ views
    "Charles Lockwood, Architect of Attack" | Paul Crozier
    Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... . U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. . . Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family...
  • The FReeper Foxhole Studies The Early History of Torpedoes - December 21st, 2003

    12/21/2003 5:08:19 AM PST · by snippy_about_it · 89 replies · 8,940+ views
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    Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...
  • American Opt-Out Torpedoes Anti-Smoking Treaty

    05/01/2003 7:20:34 PM PDT · by blam · 17 replies · 248+ views
    Independent (UK) ^ | 5-2-2003 | Andrew Gumbel
    American opt-out torpedoes anti-smoking treaty By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 02 May 2003 The United States was accused yesterday of seeking to undermine yet another international treaty after it sought special exemptions from a World Health Organisation initiative to curtail tobacco use. The Bush administration claimed it intended to sign the treaty, which was negotiated by 171 countries, but said in a letter to the WHO that it wanted a clause allowing governments to opt out of any provision they found objectionable. That prompted anti-tobacco lobbyists and some Democrats to accuse the Bush administration of attempting to torpedo the...