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132856
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2014.
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While the UK's mercantile fleet is but an echo of its former glory with some 300 vessels over 500grt directly under the red ensign, the country continues to control substantial mercantile fleets. UK shipping has risen substantially to contribute £12.9 billion annually while services such as insurance, ship brokering and legal work provide some £3.8 billion, indeed directly and indirectly shipping provided the UK economy with some £56 billion) annual turnover.
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ID:
091208
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2009.
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In some respects the CVF project is a case of back to the future for in the mid 1960s a new fleet carrier programme, CVA-01, was planned to replace HMS ARK Royal, Eagle and VICTORIOUS, which had all been laid down during the Second World War.
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ID:
109294
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ID:
112000
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ID:
086773
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2009.
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Summary/Abstract |
One of the United Kingdom's most distinguished military historian has drawn a parallel between the decline of British military power and its manufacturing base. He noted that Whitehall tends to be dominated by classically educated people with little industrial knowledge or even comprehension.
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ID:
119616
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2012.
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Military history has traditionally been a contest between its Navies and its enemies land power often described as the Whale versus the Elephant. Each is supreme in its own environment but powerless in the othre's; but for nearly seven decades this analogy has been under threat, largly through air power but increasingly through the ability to project power from below the sea.
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ID:
130116
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2013.
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The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is a service that punches above its weight and will receive a substantial boost to its force projection capability.
The RAN has to cover a huge expanse of water, around the 7.7 million square kilometer island continent and Canberra's interests extend into the Solomon Islands, where the RAN supports a regional assistance mission in Operation "Anode," and New Guinea to the north west, the Antarctic, as well as deploying a frigate in the Persian Gulf supports the campaign against terrorism by operating in Operation "Slipper."
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ID:
130283
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2013.
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The anti-ship missile is regarded as the greatest threat to surface combatants and merchantmen in modern naval warfare with the threat coming from the air, the land, the sea and from under the sea.
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ID:
123826
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2013.
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Summary/Abstract |
With some more than 70% of the world surface covered by water developments on and below its are clearly of great importance, yet the underwater environment some times appears to be neglected, however, it is predicted that the world market for diesel electric submarines would grow by 1.8% per year until 2022.
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ID:
071406
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