Current Events in Asia-Pacific

From Aviation Week 24 F-22s Deployed To Guam and Okinawa Jan 26, 2009 By David A. Fulghum In the fourth and largest F-22 deployment so far, a squadron of the U.S. stealth fighters has shifted from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, to Andersen AFB, Guam. Another 12 fighters from Langley AFB, Va., flew to Kadena AFB in Okinawa, Japan, earlier this month. The first F-22 deployment was from Langley to Elmendorf, the second was from Langley to Okinawa and the third was from Elmendorf to Guam. All were temporary single squadron moves to test the new aircraft’s logistics and reliability and — in the last two moves — to participate in the rotation of units to th…

From Armed Forces Journal, November 2011 issue [excerpt]

From Navy Times Police raid Japanese base over suspected leak By Mari Yamaguchi - The Associated Press Posted : Tuesday Aug 28, 2007 7:18:28 EDT TOKYO — Police raided a Japanese naval base Tuesday to investigate an alleged leak of sensitive warship technology data shared between Japan and the U.S., defense officials said. The leak involves U.S.-developed technology for the Aegis radar systems used on several Japanese destroyers and U.S. warships carrying missile interceptors. Investigators believe the information was circulated among Japanese naval academy students. The scandal has embarrassed Japanese defense officials at a time when Tokyo and Washingto…

Employing Land-Based Anti-Ship Missiles in the Western Pacific (RAND, pdf)

Lots of details on the Type 052D China Destroyer Consolidates Innovations, Other Ship Advances (Signal)

From ARES Malaysia Takes Delivery of Its First Ever Submarine Posted by Christina Mackenzie at 1/27/2009 9:39 AM CST Malaysia took delivery today of its first ever submarine: a Scorpene built by French military shipyard DCNS in partnership with Spanish shipyard Navantia. The submarine, named the Tunku Abdul Rahman (after Malaysia's first Prime Minister following independence in 1957), completed its sea tests at the end of December and was handed over to Admiral Dato'Sri Aziz Hj Jaafar, chief of staff of the Royal Malaysian Navy at a ceremony in the Mediterranean port of Toulon. The vessel will sail to Malaysia in the summer and meantime the crew will comp…

From Navy Times Report: Chinese ships confronted Kitty Hawk Kyodo News Service Posted : Tuesday Jan 15, 2008 16:08:22 EST TAIPEI — A Chinese attack submarine and destroyer shadowed U.S. warships in November in the Taiwan Strait, sparking a 28-hour standoff that brought the group to a battle-ready halt in the tense waters, a report in a Taiwan daily said Tuesday. The confrontation occurred as the Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and other ships in its battle group were heading back to Japan following China’s sudden cancellation of a long-scheduled holiday port call in Hong Kong, the China Times said, citing U.S. military sources. The carrier strike group …

Moskva takes a shot line from the Petr Velikiy, somewhere in the Indian Ocean in May 2010.

China Security Report 2012 (pdf, National Institute of Defense Studies, Japan)

Amazingly our Aussie sub didn't break down, sink or miss. Video Used a Mark 48 Mod 7 (CBASS) do we have these in Harpoon ?

From Flight International DATE: 06/11/08 SOURCE: Flightglobal.com PICTURE: J-10 debuts at Airshow China 2008 By Barbara Cockburn China's J-10 strike fighter aircraft, made its debut during an aerial display on 4 November in front of a crowd of spectators at the 7th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, known as Airshow China, held in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province.

From Defence Talk China to begin projecting military around the world: analysts Agence France-Presse | Jan 28, 2009 London: China is likely to begin deploying its military increasingly further from its borders, analysts at a top thinktank said on Tuesday. The Asian power was also unlikely to constrain its defence budget because of an economic downturn that has left the World Bank forecasting the slowest pace of growth in China since 1990, the analysts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies said. Noting that China began using a naval convoy in the Gulf of Aden to protect the country's shipping from Somali pirates, IISS director of transnation…

From Jane's [excerpt]

Chinas Increasingly Good Mock Air Battles Prep Pilots for Real War (Wired, Danger Room blog)

Japan Plans to Raise Military Budget Amid China Row (DefenseNews)

The U.S.-China Military Scorecard: Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996–2017 (RAND, pdf)

These things are pretty cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K9_Thunder

http://alert5.com/2012/09/25/breaking-varyag-is-named-liaoning-officially-inducts-into-plan/

From Defense Aerospace Deed of Settlement and Release Signed for FFG Upgrade (Source: ADI Ltd.; issued May 30, 2006) ADI Limited has signed a Deed of Settlement and Release with the Commonwealth of Australia formalising the Government’s decision to reduce the FFG Upgrade Project from six ships to four and resolving all outstanding commercial and contractual issues on the A$1 billion project. The deed, signed by vice president Thales Naval Australia and ADI director of naval Ali Baghaei, and Defence Materiel Organisation deputy CEO Kim Gillis on Monday May 29, is the result of several months of detailed negotiations. The signing comes one month after the fir…

N. Korea ditches nonaggression pact with S. Korea By JAE-SOON CHANG, Associated Press Writer Jae-soon Chang, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 30, 4:02 am ET SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea said Friday it is ditching a nonaggression pact and all other peace agreements with South Korea, in an apparent attempt to use the threat of an armed clash to press Seoul to give up its "confrontational" stance. The communist nation also said it will no longer respect a disputed sea border with the South, raising the prospect for an armed clash along the Yellow Sea boundary — the scene of deadly skirmishes between the two navies in 1999 and 2002. South Korea said it regretted…