Current Events in Europe

From Maritime News http://www.marinelink.com/news/constructio...gate342743.aspx The Yantar Shipyard in the Baltic area of Kaliningrad is to start the construction of a new Krivak IV class frigate for Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

From RIA Novosti [excerpt]

Hi, Was at Portsmouth naval base this morning and got some close up looks at HMS Dauntless and Dragon, Lot of work going on around the main mast of Dauntless and I notice neither ship currenetly had Phalanx mounted. I guess this will happen just before deployment down South. As an aside I took a photo of some equipment just aft of the Sea Viper Launchers. I think I've seen something similar before, however wonder if any of you guys could tell me what it is...... survival equipment / decoys / storage / etc. The picture can be seen here http://www.flickr.com/photos/77383808@N08/...73009/lightbox/ Regards... Roger

From DefenseNews [excerpt

The main shipbuilders' union isn't happy.

From RIA Novosti [excerpt] Interesting graphic provided with the story:

From Air Force Magazine, Feb 2012 issue [excerpt]

Names for the S-80 class boats (in French), from Mer et Marine: http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=118768 Isaac Peral, Narcis Monturiol, Cosme Garcia and Mateo Garcia de los Reyes.

From RIA Novosti [excerpt]

From RIA Novosti [excerpt] CV32: Nice shot of the Yury Dolgoruky.

From RIA Novosti [excerpt] CV32: Goes without saying that the plan is optimistic, but even so I expect they will have better luck with an established design like the Project 636 [improved Kilo] than was had with Project 677 [Lada].

From Flight Global [excerpt]

Great series of hi rez photos of the first production Sukhoi Su-34 'Fullback' strike jets at Air Power Australia.

From RIA Novosti [excerpt]

From RIA Novosti [excerpt]

From RIA Novosti [excerpt]

New SAM for British frigates

From RIA Novosti [excerpt] CV32: "Flarecraft" is a reference to 'wing in ground effect' vehicles or 'ekranoplan'.

From RIA Novosti [excerpt] CV32: You can already find the AA-X-13 'Arrow' in the HCDB.

From RIA Novosti [excerpt]