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Defense Focus: ASW dangers -- Part 4
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Defense Focus: High-tech limits -- Part 2
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Defense Focus: Subs vs carriers -- Part 3
Defense Focus: Subs vs carriers -- Part 3
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Defense Focus: Carrier strategy -- Part 5
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Defense Focus: Carrier strategy -- Part 4
WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- Watching the PBS documentary about life on the USS Nimitz, it is easy to imagine that America's nuclear-powered super aircraft carriers are unsinkable. But no ship is unsinkable, and when it comes to aircraft carriers, a lot of the best naval warfare submarine, torpedo and ballistic missile designers in the world have worked long and hard for decades to come up with new ways to sink them.
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“ From the picture we've seen of it, Anjian also looks very stealthy -- i.e., it looks like it utilizes stealth technology, ”
U.S. nuclear supercarriers have glass jaws
United Press International
“ Frankly it makes one wonder how the U.S. Navy plans to protect our carrier battle groups against modern quiet attack submarines armed with standard torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, and the new breed of supercavitating torpedoes like the Russian Shkval-2. Given the current lack of U.S. ASW/ASuW capability, we don't see how the U.S. Navy can. ”
Defense Focus: ASW dangers -- Part 4
United Press International
“ Frankly it makes one wonder how the U.S. Navy plans to protect our carrier battle groups against modern quiet attack submarines armed with standard torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, and the new breed of supercavitating torpedoes like the Russian Shkval-2. Given the current lack of U.S. ASW/ASuW capability, we don't see how the U.S. Navy can. ”
Defense Focus: Subs vs carriers -- Part 3
United Press International
“ From the picture we've seen of it, Anjian also looks very stealthy, i.e., it looks like it utilizes stealth technology. If China's already perfected this item, it would be another weapon that our Navy can't combat, ”
Defense Focus: Carrier strategy -- Part 4
United Press International
“ After the failed attempt to kill Conte on Jan. 19, these same sources have reported that the effort will soon be repeated, ”
U.N. links Liberian Taylor to Guinea coup
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