Tokyo has come up with a new plan to expand the scope of the mission in Djibouti. Currently, the troops there are tasked with securing the sea lanes in the Gulf of Aden.
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Category: Navy
Taiwan shelved plan to build helicopter carrier
Taiwan is embarking on an ambitious shipbuilding program over the next couple of years, however, the RoC Navy has shelved a plan to build a helicopter carrier due to budget constrains.
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PLA Navy had no political support from Beijing when it bought Varyag
In the second of a two-part series by South China Morning Post, Xu Zengping, said the PLA Navy told him the service was severely underfunded and there was no support in Beijing when they asked him to go to Ukraine to buy Varyag.
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China stole F-35’s radar and engine blueprints
Top secret documents disclosed by Edward Snowden have revealed details of what Chinese hackers had stole from the F-35 program.
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How one former basketball player bought China its first aircraft carrier
Xu Zengping was formerly the captain of the PLA Guangzhou Military Command basketball team, in the late 1990s, he was tasked with negotiating the purchase of China’s first aircraft carrier.
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