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Canada orders warships to stay in Mediterranean
Canada will maintain warships in the Mediterranean Sea until the end of 2012, Defense Minister Peter MacKay announced Sunday. The HMCS Vancouver frigate was originally deployed as part of NATO’s mission in Libya. It will remain in the Mediterranean Sea until early 2012, when it will be relieved by the HMCS Charlottetown, MacKay said. Officially, [...]
Royal Navy Faces Shortage of Attack Submarines
The Royal Navy faces a shortage of attack submarines because of decisions taken in the Government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review. That is the conclusion of the National Audit Office which says delays to the new Astute class would leave the Navy without sufficient submarines for operations over part of the next decade, while adding [...]
If asked, NATO could provide training for Libya: US
NATO could provide security advice and military training for Libya if the country’s new leaders ask for it, the US ambassador to the alliance said Monday. “NATO is prepared, if requested by the new Libyan authorities, to consider ways in which it could help the Libyan authorities, particularly in the area of defense and security [...]
US weighs shift in strategy in Afghanistan war
President Barack Obama’s advisers are debating a shift in the military’s mission in Afghanistan that would focus on advising Afghan forces while scaling back combat operations much earlier than planned, officials say. The potential change raises the possibility of a faster-paced drawdown of US troops, but administration officials insist it is too early to speculate [...]
NATO Builds on Afghanistan’s Once-modern Air Force
Afghanistan’s military retains the vestiges of a modern air force, and its skilled and eager airmen have NATO trainers encouraged as they build up the force, the commander of NATO Air Training Command Afghanistan said today. The Afghanistan air force has about 5,000 of its 8,000-member goal, and 66 of 145 aircraft NATO plans to [...]
UK’s National Security Policy ‘Mismatched’ with New Threats
Defence and security experts believe Britain’s national security policy is mismatched with the new threats being faced. The survey by the Royal United Services Institute of 1,543 people, found 59% judged that it was not “appropriate to the geopolitical challenges the country faces”. It also suggested a large majority (68%) believed the decision to axe [...]
NATO Tests MANTA System, Aircraft Protection Solution Against MANPADS
The MANTA system, a solution developed by Indra to protect aircraft from surface-to-air missile attacks, was tested by NATO with positive results. The system passed the tests during the recent EMBOW trials, which consist of exercises conducted by the Atlantic Alliance, an entity that has studied threats to air platforms and countermeasure technologies for over [...]
Thales sonars key to Royal Navy minewarfare operations
A Royal Navy minehunter fitted with Thales sonar has located and destroyed a 2,000-pound mine and torpedo lying on the seabed off the port of Tobruk in eastern Libya. HMS Bangor, a Sandown-class mine countermeasures vessel (MCMV), has been on NATO operations off the Libyan coast, tasked with searching for and disposing of any ordnance [...]
Libya war gives US air power advocates a lift
Advocates of US air power are seizing on the outcome of the NATO campaign in Libya as further evidence that high-tech aircraft are the key to maintaining US military might. With its relatively low price tag and short duration, the Libya conflict offers a stark contrast to the protracted and costly ground wars in Iraq [...]
