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BAE Systems targets 300 Typhoon exports BAE Systems will go head-to-head with the US in the lucrative fighter plane export market as it attempts to sell up to 300 Eurofighter Typhoons abroad to keep production going when domestic orders dry up. By Amy Wilson The biggest potential export markets for BAE and its consortium partners, EADS and Finmeccanica, are India, Japan and Saudi Arabia, which is already buying 72 Typhoons. An order from Switzerland could come as soon as next year and the consortium is also pursuing sales in Greece and Romania. It also has long-term ambitions in Brazil, Malaysia...

More than 390 people are believed to have been buried alive in the village worst affected by a massive mudslide caused by Typhoon Morakot. A National Fire Agency disaster relief centre spokesman told the BBC's Cindy Sui of the fears for Hsiaolin Village. This is the first time the government has released a firm estimate on the number of people they believe might have been killed. Thousands of people are still stranded by the worst by mudslides and floods. The typhoon struck Taiwan at the weekend, causing the worst flooding in 50 years, and leaving at least 116 people confirmed...

Hotel Swept into River after Typhoon Source:Xinhua Updated: 2009-8-10 11:08:53 A six-storey hotel building leans before falling into a flooded river after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitung county, eastern Taiwan, August 9, 2009. People watch as a six-storey hotel building leans before falling into a flooded river. A collapsed hotel building is seen in flood waters.

Do you know the difference between a hurricane, a typhoon and a cyclone? People often think they are one in the same. It is confusing enough to try to keep up with the hurricane season and all the terminology, without having to decipher the difference between the three. All storms are the same after all, or are they? I found out that while they share common characteristics, they are still different. How are they different? Basically, the location is what gives the storm it's name. If a storm was to form in the Atlantic or eastern Pacific Ocean, we would...

Taiwan mudslide may have buried 600 villagers By Ralph Jennings and Yoko Kubota 37 mins ago TAIPEI/TOKYO (Reuters) – A mudslide triggered by torrential rains from a typhoon may have buried up to 600 villagers in mountainous southern Taiwan, disaster officials said on Monday. More than 50 people have died in tropical storms striking the Phillipines, Taiwan, China and Japan. The death toll so far in Taiwan stood at 15, with 55 missing and 32 hurt, since Typhoon Morakot struck the island on Friday and remained in the area through the weekend before battering China's populous east coast. Rescue squads...

This is submarine “Typhoon” as it was called in NATO documents or “Shark” as it was called in Russia. It is considered to be the biggest submarine in the world, with over than 170 meters (515 feet) long and 23 meter (70 feet) wide. It can carry 20 ballistic nuclear missiles and there were only six of those built. Only 3 left intact.

Evacuations continued Sunday along Australia's Queensland coast as a Category 5 cyclone moved closer to the mainland. Residents were preparing for Cyclone Hamish, possibly the worst storm in almost 30 years, to make landfall Tuesday between Bundaberg and Hervey Bay. Winds of up to 280 km/h were recorded as the cyclone approached islands in north Queensland on Sunday. The town of Airlie Beach, which is the gateway from the mainland to the Whitsundays, was already being pounded by strong winds and heavy rain. Evacuations were reported on several north Queensland islands, including Fraser, Lady Elliot, Heron, South Molle, Long and...

Here’s another video, from the Israeli Navy this time, showing attacks on Hamas targets with rockets and the Typhoon stabilized marine gun system.

I was officer of the deck from 1600 until 1800. I was serving on board a CVE, a so-called "baby flattop" or "jeep carrier," whose assigned duty was to escort a fleet of Navy tankers in the waters not so very far this side of the Philippines. Our mission was to protect the oilers while they steamed up and down in a very limited area close enough to the scene of operations so that Admiral Halsey could retire with the greater part of his powerful units and fuel his fleet, aircraft carriers and all, while the carriers' planes were over...

Weather forecasters on Sunday predicted thunder and rain in Beijing on the day of the Olympic opening ceremony and warned that typhoons could disrupt events in other host cities. Organisers have repeatedly said rain is their biggest worry ahead of Friday's opening ceremony, which will feature more than 10,000 performers and a massive fireworks display. But top officials from the Beijing Meteorological Bureau confirmed that bad weather was certain for the August 8, although they held out hope that the skies may clear for the evening ceremony...

Excerpt - Rescuers who have reached a ferry sunk by a typhoon in the Philippines and carrying more than 700 people say they have recovered only three survivors. The Princess of the Star ran aground after being hit by massive waves caused by typhoon Fengshen. ~ snip ~

According to the high prophet of global doom (warming), Mr. Gore blames current global warming on the severity of the recent typhoon in Burma which has resulted in approximately 100,000 deaths. I did some quick checking on major typhoon events over the last 50 years. April 29, 1991: Bangladesh, approximately 138,000 people killed and approximately 10 million people left homeless November 12, 1970: Bangladesh, killed somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 people; some estimates have put the death count closer to 1.2 million people when deaths from various illnesses resulting from stagnant water are included So is there a trend for...

BEIJING, April 17 (Xinhua) -- China's National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a warning against typhoon Neoguri on Thursday afternoon, forecasting it was likely to land along the southeastern coast of Hainan Province or skim over the offshore areas between Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. The latest forecast at 5 p.m. showed that the center of Neoguri was 350 kilometers southeast of the Sanya city in southern Hainan, packing winds up to 136.8 kilometers per hour. Typhoon Neoguri would affect southern Hainan and Guangdong provinces, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and southeastern Fujian Province, according to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA)....

More than 1.4 million evacuated; at least four killed on Taiwan. Typhoon Krosa lashed eastern China on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of more than 1.4 million people, the state news agency reported. The storm earlier hit Taiwan, leaving at least four people dead and 52 injured. After making landfall on eastern coastal China at Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, Krosa was downgraded to a tropical storm. The storm, with gale force winds and torrential rains, destroyed homes, cut power and disrupted road, sea and air travel, the Xinhau news agency reported. More than 75,000 boats were ordered to return to port...

North Korea reports heavy losses, disease after floods 19 minutes ago North Korea has been pummelled by heavy rains for a second time in a month, state media said Friday, as the communist nation struggles to contain disease outbreaks from earlier floods. Rice and other crops were lost as rains spawned by Typhoon Wipha inundated western provinces and the capital Pyongyang in the past three days, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). It said the new downpours had caused "heavy losses in many sectors" of the economy and some areas damaged by last month's floods had again...

Some 200,000 people are being evacuated from China's financial hub, Shanghai, as a powerful typhoon barrels towards the country's east coast. Residents from the city's exposed areas were being moved to temporary shelters ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Wipha. Forecasters said the storm, expected to make landfall by early Wednesday, could be the worst to hit in a decade.

TOKYO : A strong typhoon was churning in the Pacific towards Japan on Wednesday and may hit the Tokyo area later in the week, the weather agency said. Typhoon Fitow, packing winds of up to 108 kilometres (67 miles) an hour near its centre, was in the Pacific hundreds of kilometres south of Tokyo Wednesday morning and was forecast to reach Tokyo or its vicinity by early Friday. More...

RAF fighter jets were sent to intercept a Russian bomber which was heading towards British air space over the North Atlantic, it emerged this evening. Two Typhoons were sent from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to meet the Bear-H aircraft after the early warning radar system detected it heading towards UK territory, according to the Ministry of Defence. It is the first time the Typhoon Eurofighters have been scrambled since they took on operational duties on June 29.

On Saturday, the New York Times criticized the Pentagon’s spending plans for buying, among other things, the F-22 stealth fighter, also known as the Raptor. According to the paper, that’s just concentrating on “the kind of weapons that might have made sense during the cold war but have little use in the kind of conflicts America is involved in and is likely to face in the foreseeable future.” The Air Force acquired the F-22 to penetrate the Soviet Union and face its fleet of Su-27 fighters. The Times reasons that, because the USSR disappeared, so did our need for the...

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's "Halsey's Typhoon" is man-against-nature drama at its best. It's an inspiring and thrilling read. It is a true story of heroism and hardship at war. It's also an account of the occasional cowardice, incompetence and cock-ups that occur in every military conflict. It's a story worth knowing and well told, with the pace and riveting immediacy of a good novel. In December of 1944, while supporting Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "I will return" invasion of the Philippine Islands, Adm. William "Bull" Halsey's 170-ship armada suffered a sneak attack from Typhoon Cobra, an unexpected enemy that did...

Typhoon delivers the fright stuff By Adam Lusher, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:35am BST 29/04/2007Page 1 of 3 Some joker has got his hands on of one of our aircraft. Unfortunately, that joker is me. I am at 36,000ft in an RAF Typhoon (aka the Eurofighter, cost £66.7 million), "flying" the result of Britain's most expensive and probably most controversial weapons project at almost the speed of sound above an unsuspecting part of Lincolnshire. What is truly alarming is not the speed or the altitude or the cost, or even that I have just been asked to execute a turn,...

Excerpt - A decision about the future of the Air Force facility on Wake Island, devastated last August by Super Typhoon Ioke, is expected later this month, officials told Stars and Stripes. ~ snip ~ A decision is expected from Pacific Air Forces sometime in late January, according to a statement from Maj. Clare Reed, spokeswoman for the 15th Airlift Wing, Wake’s parent command at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Ioke, a Category 5-equivalent tropical cyclone, passed just north of Wake overnight Aug. 30 and into the morning of Aug. 31, packing sustained 161-mph winds and 198-mph gusts. Weather sensors...

DARAGA, Philippines — The top Red Cross official in the Philippines said Sunday that he thinks 1,000 people or more have been killed by Typhoon Durian. "We're estimating the casualties could reach 1,000, perhaps more," said Sen. Richard Gordon, who heads the local Red Cross. His figure of 1,000 was based on reports from Red Cross officials on the ground in the devastated areas. Gordon said at present his group has recorded a death toll of at least 406, with 398 others missing, based on figures provided by mayors of devastated towns in the eastern Philippines, where Durian hit with...

LEGASPI - At least 469 people were dead or missing after rivers of mud and volcanic ash triggered by typhoon Reming (international codename Durian) swamped villages in Albay province, disaster officials said Saturday. The National Disaster Coordinating Council said the victims were all in the Bicol region, which bore the full brunt of the storm on Thursday. All the deaths were around the Mount Mayon volcano where mud and ash flows driven by torrential rain swamped villages on Thursday night. ~ snip ~

MANILA: Strong winds and heavy rains accompanying Typhoon Durian triggered massive landslides in the northern Philippine province of Albay, killing 198 people, officials said Friday. At least 260 people are missing. The landslides swept through at least three villages late Thursday near Mayon, the most active volcano in the Philippines and one of the country's most famous tourist attractions because of its near-perfect cone. The typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines on Thursday morning, loosening the rock and mud that the volcano had deposited on its slopes earlier this year. Officials said debris cascaded into rivers and villages, beginning Thursday...

(2nd UPDATE) MUDFLOWS from the slopes of the Mayon volcano, triggered by heavy rains from typhoon "Reming" (international codename: Durian) buried at least eight villages, killing up to 20 people and prompting search and rescue operations for an unspecified number of missing, local and disaster officials said Friday. But the Associated Press, quoting a report by Legazpi City Mayor Noel Rosal, said that up to 100 people may have been killed or injured in one village after it was swamped by rain-soaked volcanic debris. Padang is on the foothills of the volcano, which erupted in July, depositing millions of...

MANILA, Philippines - A powerful typhoon battered the eastern Philippines on Thursday, cutting off power to thousands of homes and stranding of ferry passengers as it churned toward Manila. With sustained winds of 119 mph and gusts of up to 140 mph, Durian has become a major typhoon, said chief weather forecaster Nathaniel Cruz. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the island province of Catanduanes, about 230 miles east of Manila, after authorities ordered the evacuation of coastal areas before the storm struck, said Arthur Goleze, deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense. Catanduanes residents said the...

Super Typhoon 22W (Cimaron) Warning Nr 011 Upgraded From Typhoon 22W 01 Active Tropical Cyclone in NorthWestPac Max sustained winds based on one-minute average --- Warning Position: 290600z --- Near 16.3N 123.5e Movement Past Six Hours - 285 Degrees At 11 Kts Position Accurate To Within 025 Nm Position Based On Center Located By Satellite PRESENT WIND DISTRIBUTION: MAX SUSTAINED WINDS - 140 KT, GUSTS 170 KT RADIUS OF 064 KT WINDS - 045 NM NORTHEAST QUADRANT 045 NM SOUTHEAST QUADRANT 045 NM SOUTHWEST QUADRANT 045 NM NORTHWEST QUADRANT RADIUS OF 050 KT WINDS - 070 NM NORTHEAST QUADRANT...

9/14/2006 - WAKE ISLAND (AFPN) -- After Super Typhoon Ioke's 155 mph winds and driving storm surge devastated Wake Island Aug. 31, members of the 36th Contingency Response Group at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, made up the initial assessment team sent to the island. "Prior to the storm the experts were all saying there would be no runway left to assess," said Maj. Pat Poon, the team commander. "The thought was the waves and storm surge were going to erode the runway or at least cause some major damage, so we had to come by ship on the...

9/5/2006 - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AFPN) -- A U.S. Coast Guard aerial assessment of Wake Island Sept. 2 showed less destruction than expected from Super Typhoon Ioke, but the Air Force needs people on the ground at Wake to determine the full extent of damage, officials said. The Coast Guard flew the mission to check for pollution releases. It was flown in a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point in Kapolei, Hawaii. Footage and pictures taken on the mission, which were reviewed by Coast Guard and Air Force officials, don't show any...

Excerpt - HONOLULU (AP) _ A first look at the storm damage inflicted on Wake Island by Typhoon Ioke showed no oil spills. A Coast Guard C-130 flew over Wake Island this weekend to make an initial assessment of the destruction brought on by the storm. Observers aboard the plane couldn't see any spills or other hazardous material releases. ~ snip ~

9/3/2006 - ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AFPN) -- Airmen and Sailors from Andersen will sail 1,500 miles to Wake Island to see how well the U.S. territory survived Super Typhoon Ioke. The Air Force evacuated all 188 island residents on two C-17 Globemaster III aircraft Monday before the typhoon arrived Thursday with 155 mph winds and gusts to 190 mph. The residents include Airmen, Department of Defense employees and Defense contractors. Members of Andersen's 36th Contingency Response Group and U.S. Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 will sail Sept. 4 on an expected four-day trip to the island....

The Air Force is waiting for Super Typhoon Ioke to clear out of the way before it files back to survey Wake Island. A Hickam Air Force Base spokesman said he does not expect that to occur until Sunday at the earliest. Once the 10,000-foot runway is deemed safe to use, an assessment team will be dispatched. The super typhoon was expected to head straight for the three-island atoll. Last night, its eye was about 60 miles east of Wake, with the storm traveling west at about 10 mph. "That's a bull's-eye, as far as I'm concerned," said Tim Craig,...

Excerpt - Super Typhoon Ioke, a Category 5 storm and the strongest to hit the Pacific in more than a decade, slammed into tiny Wake Island Thursday, threatening to submerge the U.S. territory, U.S. Navy weather forecasters said. The storm, packing sustained winds of more than 220 mph, with some gusts topping 250 mph, came ashore at about 10 a.m. ET, and was slowly tracking west, gaining strength over the warm tropical waters, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported. Wake Island is located about 2,300 miles west of Honolulu. ~ snip ~

KHON TV - Super typhoon Ioke is barreling towards Wake Island It's big and packing quite a punch. Super typhoon Ioke is barreling towards Wake Island. The massive storm is churning around in the central pacific. It's packing winds of more than 160 miles per hour, a category five storm. Roy Matsuda from the Central Pacific Hurricane Center says, "it is projected to go along this track toward wake island as you can see and to reach Wake Island approximately Wednesday afternoon our time within 13 nautical miles." And because of that a team from Hawaii will head to Wake...

The Eurofighter has taken more than 20 years to design and build Saudi Arabia has confirmed it is to buy 72 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft from the UK, in a deal that could be worth more than £6bn ($10bn). The contract, brokered between the Saudi government and the Ministry of Defence, will safeguard thousands of jobs at UK defence firm BAE Systems. Saudi Arabia is buying the Eurofighters to replace its range of Tornado jets which were also made by BAE. The Eurofighter was developed by BAE with European firms EADS and Alenia. Confidential figure "The required commercial principles have now...

China hit by strongest typhoon for half a century · 1.5 million evacuated, state of emergency declared· Summer of damage for storm-devastated region Jonathan Watts in Beijing Friday August 11, 2006The Guardian (UK) The most powerful typhoon to strike China for half a century tore into one of the country's manufacturing heartlands yesterday, killing at least two people, injuring 80 and forcing the evacuation of 1.5 million residents. With winds of up to 135mph, typhoon Saomai hit the coastal town of Mazhan in Zhejiang province, dumping a torrent of rain on a region still recovering from earlier floods. A dozen...

LITENING for UK's Eurofighters Posted 20-Jul-2006 07:31 Ultra Electronics Holdings announces that its Sonar & Communication Systems business, based in Greenford, Middlesex, has been selected by the UK Ministry of Defense to supply and support "LITENING EF 3rd generation airborne surveillance & targeting pods" for the RAF's Eurofighter aircraft. Ultra will act as the prime contractor and assemble the pods in the UK, with its Sonar & Communication Systems business unit running the project. LITENING designer RAFAEL of Israel will act as the principal sub-contractor. The Eurofighter has initially been produced and delivered in its air defense version; full muti-role...

Typhoon Ewiniar forecast to hit South Korea on Monday By Dave Ornauer, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, July 9, 2006 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Like a slow-moving predator, Typhoon Ewiniar continued tracking further northwest on Friday and appeared as if it would spare U.S. bases in southwestern Japan much of its bite. But the fourth storm of the northwest Pacific’s typhoon season remained a threat to Okinawa and put another target squarely in its crosshairs: the Korean peninsula. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast Ewiniar would graze Okinawa to its west late Saturday, then make landfall along Korea’s west...

BEIJING - China evacuated more than 7,600 people from their homes near the eastern city of Ningbo as a typhoon skirted the coast on Sunday, heading for South Korea. Evacuations were also under way in other cities of Zhejiang province, including Taizhou, Zhoushan and Wenzhou, Xinhua news agency said. More than 8,000 ships had returned to harbor in Ningbo, south of Shanghai, and Zhoushan. Typhoon Ewiniar was heading almost due north and was expected to make landfall on the Korean peninsula on Monday, the Hong Kong Observatory said on Saturday night.

Rafael markets “Protector” unmanned boat in US The unmanned naval patrol vehicle is the only one of its kind in the world Ran Dagoni, Washington 25 Jun 06 17:03 Rafael Armament Development Authority Ltd. launched one of its largest marketing efforts in the US last week for its Protector unmanned naval patrol vehicle to the US Navy and Department of Homeland Security. The Protector is the first boat of its kind in the world. Rafael USA VP business development Dr. Patrick Bar-Avi, a senior company engineer, told “Globes” that the Protector held its first performance demonstration at Tampa Bay, Florida,...

SHANGHAI (AP) - Tropical Storm Chanchu swept into the East China Sea Friday leaving behind a path of destruction in southern China, where it killed at least 11 people and left 27 Vietnamese fishermen missing after their boats sank in Chinese waters. Chanchu, downgraded early Thursday from a typhoon, has killed at least 50 people in Asia, including 37 last weekend in the Philippines, where it destroyed thousands of homes. There were fears the death toll could rise dramatically. Chanchu hit China Thursday, flooding scores of homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 1 million people before weakening to...

U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Typhoon connect with Royal Netherlands support ship HNLMS Amsterdam prior to refueling. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bobby Northnagle USS Typhoon Operates in Horn of Africa The underway period marked only the second time a Navy patrol craft has operated in and around the waters surrounding the Horn of Africa. By U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Bobby Northnagle MANAMA, Bahrain, May 1, 2006 — USS Typhoon completed a month-long operation with Combined Task Force 150, April 27, that called for the patrol craft to conduct maritime security operations alongside...

Tracking Info For Typhoon Longwang Time Lat Lon Wind(mph) Storm type ------------------------------------------------------------- 18 GMT 09/25/05 19.8N 144.4E 35 Tropical Depression 00 GMT 09/26/05 19.5N 143.4E 35 Tropical Depression 12 GMT 09/26/05 20.2N 142.0E 50 Tropical Storm 18 GMT 09/26/05 20.9N 141.7E 70 Tropical Storm 00 GMT 09/27/05 21.5N 141.0E 80 Category 1 06 GMT 09/27/05 21.7N 140.1N 100 Category 2 12 GMT 09/27/05 22.0N 139.2N 105 Category 2 00 GMT 09/28/05 22.3N 137.5N 125 Category 3 06 GMT 09/28/05 22.5N 136.7N 140 Category 4 12 GMT 09/28/05 22.5N 136.1N 140 Category 4

Typhoon LONGWANG was born in Mariana Islands. It is forecast to move westward for the moment. This makes three typhoons active in the western north Pacific, which means that we are in the middle of the peak season of typhoons. Speaking about the peak season of typhoons, in Japan, today is known to be a unique day in terms of typhoon (landfall). This is because three famous typhoons made landfall at Japan on September 26; namely Toyamaru Typhoon (195415 / MARIE), Kanogawa Typhoon (195822 / IDA), and Isewan Typhoon (195915 / VERA). The list of typhoon damage reveals that these...

SHANGHAI, China – Typhoon Damrey slammed into southern China's resort island of Hainan on Monday, killing at least two people, collapsing houses and sweeping away rice, rubber and banana crops. Packing winds of up to 125 mph, Damrey made landfall north of Hainan's Wanning City before dawn, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It was the island's strongest typhoon since 1973, the agency said. The storm, whose name means "elephant" in Cambodian, scoured the island's southern portion before heading out to sea to toward Vietnam to the west. More than 200,000 people were being evacuated along the coast ahead of...

Every year huge rotating storms packing winds greater than 74 miles per hour sweep across tropical seas and onto shorelines--often devastating large swaths of territory. When these roiling tempests--called hurricanes in the Atlantic and the eastern Pacific oceans, typhoons in the western Pacific and cyclones in the Indian Ocean--strike heavily populated areas, they can kill thousands and cause billions of dollars of property damage. And nothing, absolutely nothing, stands in their way. But must these fearful forces of nature be forever beyond our control? My research colleagues and I think not. Our team is investigating how we might learn to...

YEONCHEON, South Korea, Sept. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has suddenly released a massive amount of water from a dam near the demilitarized zone last week, causing hundreds of millions of won in flood damages in the northern part of South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, officials said Tuesday. The officials said the North opened the gates of its April 5 Dam on the Imjin River on Friday without prior notice to the South, raising the water level of the border river to a near-flood level of 3.96 meters, up from the normal level of 1.16 meters in a little over...