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Iraq To Buy 26 Billion Dollars Worth Of Armaments From USA
Iraq will buy armaments worth $13 billion from the United States by 2013 and will spend another $13 bn on weapons later, a Baghdad newspaper reported citing an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman. Al Ittihad quoted Major General Mohammed Al Askari as saying that Iraq has already concluded a contract worth more than $13 bn with [...]
BAE Offers Warships, Technology Transfer to the Brazilian Navy
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: BAE Systems has today submitted a detailed proposal to the Brazilian Navy to supply a package of naval vessels to meet its ambitious fleet renewal programme through a full technology transfer agreement, with the ships to be built in Brazil. The proposal comes on the back of the recent Defence Cooperation [...]
Russia plans to upgrade Black Sea Fleet with new warships
SEVASTOPOL: Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will receive up to four frigates and four diesel-electric submarines in the next five years, a Navy source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The Russian official said that the new warships were needed to replace vessels which have been in service for over 30 years and may soon not be [...]
Russian warship starts patrol of Somali waters
Moscow: A Russian frigate, the Neustrashimy, has started a patrol mission in the pirate-infested area off the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden, a Russian Navy spokesman said. “The Neustrashimy crew has started its mission to protect shipping routes and fight piracy. It has successfully escorted a convoy of commercial vessels through the [...]
Iran threatens to hit Western warships in Gulf if attacked
Tehran: Iran’s Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said Tuesday that Western warships stationed in the Gulf are “best targets” for the Islamic republic if its nuclear sites are attacked, Fars news agency reported. Iranian officials have repeatedly threatened to deliver a “crushing response” and hit US targets, including its bases in the Gulf and neighbouring Iraq [...]
Russian Navy could be in dire straits by 2015
The Russian Navy’s combat capabilities could seriously decrease by 2015 due to a large-scale decommissioning of ocean-going warships, a former commander of the Northern Fleet has warned. “If the current situation [with shipbuilding] remains unchanged, we will face a grand-scale removal of ocean-going warships from service with the Russian Navy by 2015 and, as a [...]
Russian warships resume patrols off Somali coast
VLADIVOSTOK: A Russian Pacific Fleet task force has resumed anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden after a five-day visit to the Seychelles, a fleet spokesman said on Thursday. The task force – comprising the Admiral Tributs destroyer with two helicopters, a salvage tug, a tanker, and a naval infantry unit – escorts commercial ships, [...]
Russian ships return home after anti-piracy duty
VLADIVOSTOK: The Russian Pacific Fleet’s Admiral Panteleyev destroyer and Irkut tanker returned on Wednesday to their base in Vladivostok after an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden. The Udaloy-class destroyer, accompanied by a salvage tugboat and two tankers, joined the anti-piracy campaign on April 27, 2009, and patrolled the pirate-infested waters off the Somali [...]
Iran sends six warships to international waters: report
Tehran: Iran has sent six warships into international waters including the Gulf of Aden, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday, just days after it test-fired a new missile that can reach some parts of Europe. “We have dispatched six warships to international waters and the Gulf of Aden,” naval commander Habibollah Sayari was quoted as [...]
