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[FCarvalho]

Pergunta estúpida: para quê um país como Bangladesh que tem um litoral irrisório e uma população esfomeada e paupérrima precisa de submarinos?

abs.

[Bolovo]

Pergunta estúpida: para quê um país como Bangladesh que tem um litoral irrisório e uma população esfomeada e paupérrima precisa de submarinos?

abs.

Porque a existência desse país deve-se a uma guerra entre Paquistão e Índia, dois países nucleares, portanto é bom ter alguns cãezinhos de guarda.

[Penguin]

Pergunta estúpida: para quê um país como Bangladesh que tem um litoral irrisório e uma população esfomeada e paupérrima precisa de submarinos?

abs.

Disputas territoriais com Mianmar e India

[delmar]

Pergunta estúpida: para quê um país como Bangladesh que tem um litoral irrisório e uma população esfomeada e paupérrima precisa de submarinos?

abs.

Tu não pensa nas vantagens de passar fome. Apenas 3% dos habitantes de Bangladesh são obesos. No Brasil este número está acima de 20%. O país tem a área do Ceará e uma população de 156 milhões de habitantes, de onde conclui-se que é um povo muito unido, um no ladinho do outro para caberem todos, tipo metrô na hora do pico. Dhaka, a capital, tem mais de 17 milhões de habitantes, maior que São Paulo. É gente amontoada por todo lado. A grande exportação de Bangladesh é de gente, para os países árabes, onde trabalham de peão nas obras.
Não consigo imaginar, assim, por qual motivo alguém invadiria Bangladesh. Igualmente não consigo imaginar o porque de ter submarino.

[Penguin]

Nossa...Bangladesh constrói OPVs...

http://www.defencebd.com/2015/09/bangla ... on-of.html

[Valdemort]

Donald Trump wants to start the biggest Navy build-up in decades

Donald Trump has pledged that he'll lead the biggest U.S. Navy build-up since the Reagan administration, but the details on what's likely to be an expensive and potentially decades-long effort remain to be seen.

Trump vowed to build the 350-ship fleet Republican defense hawks have long sought and reverse decades of fleet contraction which has yielded today's battle force of 272 ships. And while the politics of large increases to the defense budget are dicey in the best of times, Trump sees a naval build-up as part of his agenda to create jobs, according to an October internal Trump campaign memo obtained by Navy Times.

The plan, if enacted, would aim to restore the Navy to a size it hasn’t been since 1998, and would mean tens of thousands of new sailor jobs. So far, it remains unclear what mix of ships the incoming administration wants to build more of, from $10 billion Ford-class carriers or $3 billion Virginia-class attack submarines to $500 million littoral combat ships, and how that fleet composition is connected to a strategic vision.

Trump’s camp believes generally that if you have more ships and more capabilities, you give the government more options in a crisis to deter conflicts and defeat enemies. That’s what top Trump advisers told Navy Times' sister publication Defense News in October ahead of the election.

“I think at this point in history with the credibility of president of the United States eroded, were they to suspect that the United States is abandoning its defense spending,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., in the interview. “It takes more than a speech to turn this around.”

Trump's Navy
Trump has pledged to build a much larger fleet that experts say will cost many billions more per year, as state-of-the-art technology raises the price of new ship classes.

“Trump's plans are actually to build more ships and maintain a higher number of troops and aircraft. It will go a lot further than words to convince the world that we remain strong. It will help us to maintain the peace. ”

In the campaign memo, sent by a senior aide to Rep. Randy Forbes, an outgoing Virginia congressman and a top contender to be Trump's Navy secretary, Trump promises to fund modernizing “a significant number of the Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers,” some of which the Obama administration has sidelined for months or years until they get their modernization overhauls.


Navy Times
The Navy keeps sidelining its best surface ships. Here's why
The memo also lays out a plan to invest heavily in new submarines and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, and to revitalize the shipyards and get warships the maintenance that has been deferred in the last few years because of across-the-board budget cuts.

“Mr. Trump's plan will require a significant partnership with a defense industrial base that has been strained by years of significant cuts to shipbuilding and ship repair,” the memo reads. “The nationwide infrastructure of yards, depots, and support facilities that created and sustained the World War II and Cold War-era Navy has been largely dismantled.”

The solution, the memo says, is to find places where old shipyards went out of business and have the ability to restart, an effort that would be led by the incoming Navy secretary. Trump also wants to build a robust training pipeline for skilled workers in the shipyards to increase the support base for the growing Navy.

Growing the fleet

Expanding the fleet is an idea that has gained currency both in the current administration, which is trying to boost the fleet to 308 ships up from 272, and among conservative defense proponents who have advocated for a much larger fleet.

The fleet could be grown to the size advocated by Trump, or at least close to it, by the 2030s, said Bryan Clark, a former senior aide to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert and an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

To get there the Navy would need to start building three Virginia-class attack submarines per year and continue to pump out LCS and its follow-on frigates starting in 2019 to do low-end missions. The submarine build-up would need to continue even as the nation begins on the next-generation of ballistic missile submarines, which are estimated to cost at least $5 billion per hull.

The Navy, he said, could also accelerate the production of the aircraft carriers to get the fleet up to 12 by the 2030s. That buildup would get the Navy from an end strength of about 330,000 sailors today to more than 380,000 in Trump’s Navy.

One idea that wouldn’t work, Clark said, would be to bring ships out of the mothball fleet the way the Reagan administration did. Reagan famously recommissioned the World War II-era Iowa-class battleships to try and meet his 600-ship Navy goal.

“The difference between the ships in the fleet and the ships in mothballs is the technology is two or three generations removed from what’s in use today,” Clark said. “In the 1980s, the ships you could pull out of mothballs, the combat systems were not that far removed from the systems of the day. It wasn’t that dramatic.”

Clark said the modern-day equivalent would be to modernize all the existing cruisers to keep them in the fleet through the 2030s, an idea that has gained traction in the incoming Trump administration.

Now they just have to find a way to pay for it.

Navy and defense spending isn’t the only thing Trump wants to spend money on, and figuring out the winners and losers among Trump’s policy agenda is going to be a challenge, experts warn.

“There are going to have to be lot of trade-offs,” said Dan Palazzolo, a professor of political science at University of Richmond. “ Donald Trump wants a lot of things: Big tax cuts, big infrastructure spending, doesn’t want to touch entitlements, defense spending. There are tensions here that are going to have to get unwound.

“Really this is going to be the challenge of Trump’s presidency: How do you translate these broad policy proposals into policies, and defense in that mix. It’s going to be on Congress to help him figure that out.”

[JL]

Bem que podia esticar a viagem e vir dar um passeio por aqui.

http://www.planobrazil.com/uss-zumwalt- ... cartagena/

[JL]

https://twitter.com/knoon001 Mas fotos de Cartagena

[P44]

Myanmar Navy commissions first corvette with reduced RCS

Mrityunjoy Mazumdar, Alameda, California - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
29 December 2016


The Myanmar Navy commissioned its first guided-missile corvette featuring radar cross-section-reducing characteristics (shown in the background) on 24 December. Source: CinCDS/ Myanmar Navy

The Myanmar Navy (MN) commissioned several new vessels on 24 December, including UMS (Union of Myanmar Ship) Tabinshwehti with pennant number 773: the service's first guided-missile corvette featuring radar cross-section (RCS) reducing characteristics.


Launched in late November 2014, UMS Tabinshwehti is also the third guided-missile corvette to enter service with the MN. Unlike the two older 77 m guided missile corvettes, UMS Anawrahta (771) and UMS Bayintnaung (772), the recently commissioned corvette has a reduced-RCS superstructure with two masts and a helicopter hangar.

Weapons include one Oto Melara 76 mm gun in a stealthy cupola and two Chinese-made NG-18 gun systems for close-in defence. The ship also features a box launcher for six man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS) - presumably from North Korea.

Moreover, two sets of five-barrelled Chinese-origin RDC anti-submarine rocket launchers are mounted ahead of the main gun and what appear to be two sets of two box launchers for Chinese C-802-series anti-ship missiles are fitted amidships.

The commissioning ceremony, which took place on the MN's 69th anniversary, was attended by the commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who noted that Myanmar is now capable of constructing missile corvettes to its own specifications from start to finish. "Building warships on a self-reliant basis saves money and provides benefits to Myanmar," he added.

The MN also displayed a locally developed unmanned surface vessel (USV) project using what appears to be a rigid-hull inflatable boat (RHIB) from French manufacturer Sillinger fitted with what appears to be a remotely operated machine gun.

Video footage of the demonstration suggests that the USV is controlled by two operators using a commercial-off-the-shelf-based control system with joystick controls and a line of sight radio control.

Other vessels commissioned on 24 December include a 77 m troop transport ship UMS Chindwin and six 29 m landing craft mechanised (LCM) vessels capable of carrying two armoured fighting vehicles.

http://www.janes.com/article/66579/myan ... educed-rcs

[Bolovo]

Malditos franc... digo, alemães.

Criminal probe launched over Israel's submarine deal with ThyssenKrupp

An investigation has begun into allegations of corruption by Prime Minister Netanyahu's lawyer over the submarine deal. Israel ordered three underwater craft, which the military said were too expensive and not needed.

Israel's State Attorney confirmed on Monday the opening of a criminal probe into a procurement contract between Israel's Defense Ministry and German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.

The deal, to buy three Dolphin submarines worth an estimated 1.4 billion euro ($1.5 billion),has come under public scrutiny since it emerged that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's own lawyer, David Shimron, who is also his cousin, represents the local agent of ThyssenKrupp.

http://www.dw.com/en/criminal-probe-lau ... a-37740401

[FCarvalho]

Corrupção é uma doença endêmica em todas as partes do mundo. Do primeiro ao último.
E não tem vacina.

abs.

[P44]

Lockheed Martin Canada is one of three finalists for the four ship Finnish Squadron 2020 corvette combat suite; offering their CMS-330.

[artenobre]

olha que interessante e nacional: http://www.rhinodefense.com.br/barcos/i ... s/aluminio

[pmicchi]

Nossa...Bangladesh constrói OPVs...

http://www.defencebd.com/2015/09/bangla ... on-of.html

a bem dizer, é uma corveta bem armada (sonar, MANs, etc) e não um mero navio de patrulha.

[P44]

Saudi Arabia and Turkey will sign a deal to provide 5 Ada-class corvettes to Saudi navy in IDEF 2017. -reports.