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Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 5:40 am:

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DALIAN: The "Zhenghe" training vessel of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy left Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Monday for visits to the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan.

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Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 6:27 am:

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VLADIVOSTOK, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian Pacific Fleet task force that has been on anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden has completed an official three-day visit to the port of Klang in Malaysia, a spokesman for the fleet said.

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Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 6:02 am:

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VLADIVOSTOK, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - The missile cruiser Varyag, the flagship of Russia's Pacific Fleet, will sail on Tuesday on a month-long tour-of-duty, which will include a visit to Singapore, a fleet spokesman said.

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Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 6:33 am:

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PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY -- The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force achieved another ballistic missile intercept in space using a Raytheon Company -built Standard Missile-3. During the Oct. 27 test, the SM-3 Block IA missile engaged and destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target more than 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

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Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 6:59 am:

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SEKONDI, Ghana (NNS) -- Fifteen maritime professionals from Ghana concluded three weeks of at-sea training with a graduation ceremony held on the flight deck of the Dutch Africa Partnership Station (APS) platform HNLMS Johan de Witt (L 801) Oct. 26.

The Ghanaian class is the first of three to graduate on this APS platform since the training commenced in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 9.

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Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 - 5:09 am:

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A design has been chosen for a new monument to honour the Canadian navy.

It will be installed by the Ottawa River in 2011, at the end of a year celebrating the fleet's centennial, the navy and the National Capital Commission announced Thursday.

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Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 - 6:04 am:

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NEW DELHI - India plans to build up its maritime security agency, the Coast Guard, with additional personnel and assets, a move prompted by the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai by terrorists who arrived by sea.

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Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 3:10 am:

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Karachi, Oct 30(ANI): The Pakistan Navy is considering setting up an organisation assigned to oversee all the maritime authorities of the country to minimize the chances of a terrorist attack being launched on a neighbouring country from its land and waters.

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Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009 - 4:39 am:

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MOSCOW -- Moscow plans to buy a French amphibious assault ship, the first such purchase from a NATO country, as the Kremlin seeks to reaffirm Russia's global reach, a Russian news agency reported Saturday.

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Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009 - 4:58 am:

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MOSCOW, October 31 (RIA Novosti) - A French warship will visit Russia in November, a top Russian Navy official said on Saturday.

"In November, the Mistral helicopter carrier will arrive on a visit to St. Petersburg," said Oleg Burtsev, first deputy chief of the Navy Main Staff.

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Posted on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 5:09 am:

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NEW DELHI - India will commission a Coast Guard station Nov. 4 at Karwar, India's state-of-the-art, integrated naval base on the western seaboard, as it continues to strengthen coastal security. Karwar, India's fourth naval command headquarters, will develop into one of the biggest such bases this side of the Suez.

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Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 4:21 am:

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JERUSALEM: Israeli commandos seized a ship Wednesday that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons bound for Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement — the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered.

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Posted on Friday, November 6, 2009 - 6:09 am:

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In case you were wondering what was all that chanting from boatmen in the Inner Harbor this morning, it was the arrival of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

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Posted on Saturday, November 7, 2009 - 7:38 am:

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The latest in a series of Australian-sponsored Pacific Patrol Boat refits has been completed and the refurbished vessel handed-back to the Federated States of Micronesia at a ceremony at the Rosshaven Marine Shipyard in Townsville QLD today.

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Posted on Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 7:34 am:

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PARIS - Thales is keen to raise its stake in naval systems company DCNS to 35 percent from 25 percent, as systems integration plays an increasingly important part in the design and building of modern warships, said Marc Darmon, head of Thales' naval division.

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Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009 - 6:17 am:

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New Delhi: Navy and the Coast Guard are carrying out operations simulating 26/11-type attacks to prepare themselves to tackle such incidents in future and a similar drill is being planned in Mumbai around the date the militants struck last year.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 6:37 am:

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SEOUL, South Korea - Navy ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, South Korean military officers said.

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Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 3:31 am:

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CAIRO: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday imposed a naval blockade on the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen to combat Shi' ite rebels along its border, an adviser to the government said, in the latest escalation of fighting in the southern Arabian peninsula.

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Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 4:08 am:

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KALININGRAD, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - The Yantar shipyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad is planning to float out the first of the three frigates being built for the Indian Navy at the end of November, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

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Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 1:47 am:

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SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea warned it was ready to deter any retaliation by North Korea following the two countries' first naval clash in seven years, reportedly deploying two warships to the disputed sea border Wednesday.

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Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 2:13 am:

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The India Navy and the coast guard deployed aircrafts and ships in search-and-rescue operations on the Maharashtra coast post the cyclone threat.

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Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 2:45 am:

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KIEV, November 11 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko believes Russia's Black Sea Fleet stationed on the Crimean Peninsula is leading to instability between the two countries' relations.

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Posted on Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 6:33 am:

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Warships would be open for the public from November 19 to 22.

Kochi: The Southern Naval Command here is all set to celebrate the Navy Day with a bevy of programmes lasting a fortnight in a bid to bring the force closer to the general public.

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Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 5:12 am:

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DUBAI, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will soon sign a new deal with India on additional funds to finish a refit of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Sunday.

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Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 5:30 am:

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23:31 17/11/2009 KALININGRAD, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian shipyard will float out the first of three frigates for India's Navy November 27, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

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Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 6:31 am:

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Kochi: Another male bastion would soon fall in the Indian Armed Forces when, for the first time in Naval history, two women officers would don flying overalls at a function here on November 20.

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Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 - 7:05 am:

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With new submarines, destroyers and mine warfare ships, China's Navy is clearly benefiting from modernization financed by the nation's rapidly growing economy, a new report tells U.S. lawmakers.

But a more shadowy Chinese force probably poses a greater immediate threat to the United States - that is, China's secretive army of intelligence collectors and cyber warriors, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

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Posted on Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 6:47 am:

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FOR the Nigeria Navy (NN), they are nothing but a bunch of impersonators masquerading as naval officers. And this is why it has sworn to deal with these

self- acclaimed members of the merchant navy said to be led by one 'Commodore' Benson Edema. A group which dresses its members in the traditional blue and white on white uniform in order to pass themselves convincingly as genuine naval men

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Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 6:32 am:

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Christchurch (New Zealand), Nov 21(ANI): Mhadei, the Indian Naval Sailing Vessel, with Commander Dilip Dhonde at the helm entered Lyttelton Port of Christchurch on Saturday after covering about 9000 Nautical miles of his voyage.

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