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France Carries Out Airstrikes In Mali France Loses Gazelle, Soldier in Air Raid (from Aviation Week, Ares blog)

Contracts Highlight Growing Role of Video Game Training (National Defense, February 2013 issue)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40knj0qg_Us

USAF talks up new, improved C-130 gunship (Defense Aerospace)

India tests sea based Brahmos missile (RIA Novosti)

Yury Dolgoruky commissioned (RIA Novosti)

Limited liftoff looming: Y-20 transport prepares for first flight (The Diplomat)

Obvious material here ... Japan explores war scenarios with China (The Diplomat, Flashpoints blog)

More detail of your particular situation would help.

Chinese Beidou satnav system fully operational (Aviation Week)

Patriots enroute to the Turkish-Syria border (DefenseNews' Intercepts blog) With pics.

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

The '13550' figure I see in my version of the annex might be transposed, i.e. oughta be '31550'. But that would still be full load displacement, and Harpoon doesn't use full load displacement to calculate DP. As Gunny has said, DP may then be discounted for merchant construction (-50%), being an auxiliary (-25%), and other factors.

Good stuff there, Wrench Turner.

The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula (pdf, Center for Strategic and International Studies)

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

Yes, Red has a time on station victory condition, achieved by reaching the far end of the Baltic.

Obit for a carrier (Time, Battleland blog)

Cost issue overshadows F-35’s unsuitability (Ottawa Citizen) Canadian Military Would Need To Outsource F-35 Refueling (DefenseNews)

That's a pretty neat effort. Thanks for sharing it, Enrique.

How Good Is The World's Most Expensive Fighter Jet? At $130 Million A Plane, Critics Question The Cost Of The F-35 (National Public Radio, 2 January 2013)

You won't hear the mainstream media (or that clown Piers Morgan) pushing that story to the forefront, that's for sure. A small glimpse of the nightmare one might expect if faced with the same dilemma in Canada: Ian Thomson acquitted after shooting at his attackers (Full Comment, National Post)

Congressional Chaos Costs U.S. Navy Millions, Leaves Ships in Limbo (DefenseNews) (Article includes reference to 10 Perry frigates intended for transfer)

Is January Chinese ASAT testing month? (All Things Nuclear, Union of Concerned Scientists)

Key trends to watch in the Year of the Snake (China Real Time Report blog, Wall Street Journal) Good stuff here if you're pondering a venture into the Westpac battleset.