Friday, January 15, 2010

Restoring The USN Submarine Fleet

The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Norfolk (SSN 714).

From The New Wars:

As we’ve been looking at this past week, Dr. Wayne Hughes and others have authored an important document titled The New Navy Fighting Machine, detailing specific proposals to rebuild the American Navy for a new century. The Fleet he suggests is one America should have been designing all last decade, while restoring numbers to a rational point matching likely budget allocations. Here’s hoping we won’t repeat the same mistake and shrink further in the 2010’s.

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More News On The World's Submarine Fleets

Coping With The Great American SSN Shortage -- Strategy Page
UK Conservatives to delay Trident replacement by five years -- The Telegraph
Pearl Harbor to get third Virginia-class nuclear sub -- Star bulletin
Sub North Carolina to arrive at Pearl by summer -- Navy Times
Northrop Grumman Delivers New Mexico Submarine Ahead of Schedule in Record Time -- Defence Professionals
New submarine delivered to U.S. Navy -- UPI
Sixth Virginia-class submarine delivered in record time -- Janes
Israel in talks to buy 6th submarine from Germany -- Reuters
Germany Sells Another Submarine To Israel -- Economic Voice
Russia to lease nuclear submarine to India for decade: report -- China View
Russia's Nerpa nuclear sub to be 'fine-tuned' next month -- RIA Novosti
New Russian Subs Await Missiles -- Aviation Week

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