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Prospects for Russian Navy amphibious forces development in the wake of the cancelled Mistral contract: ships and equipment
Recent events testify to the fact that the experts promoting the idea of developing the Russian Navy first and foremost as a coastal fleet, capable of controlling the 200-mile exclusive economic zone in peacetime and of defending our seacoast during the war, proved to be wrong.
Russia has political and economic interests away from its shores. Moreover, it has overseas allies and rendering ...
... facilitation of future transitions to rule out failures when aircraft are decommissioned in the absence of replacement.
Royal Navy
Britain has traditionally taken great pride in its Royal Navy, while after the Second World War it became second to the American fleet, and in two decades after massive decommissioning with no adequate replacement to major aircraft carriers, its key strike asset, fell third after the Soviet naval force. But now, for the first time in several decades, the Royal Navy seems to on ...
... the Argentinean armed forces in the war of 1982. Brazil still supports Argentina in its territorial dispute with the United Kingdom.
The countries of the region are also concerned over the symbolic gesture by the United States to revive the U.S. 4th Fleet (U.S. Navy command in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1943–1950, which was reestablished in 2008). The Brazilian president, along with the state leaders of Argentina and Venezuela, condemned the move, saying that the initiative by the U.S. mighty ...
... operating in the near-ocean zone. It can be argued that countering U.S. Naval forces has not been put to the fore yet and the emphasis is laid on containing regional rivals and a gradual access to the high seas. The improved technical level and the growing fleet size do not give China a decisive maritime superiority in the region, but inevitably pose a threat to key countries of the Asia-Pacific
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Crawling tigers
South-East Asia is the most dynamic region in terms of military activity. The Southeast Asian arms market is relatively small: the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) estimates it collectively worth only $2 billion to
$3 billion annually
. However, it is quite diverse in terms of suppliers: in contrast to Northeast Asia, ...