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14 December 2017 Military News

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  • Navy Releases Strategic Readiness Review NNS 14 Dec 2017 -- In September, the Secretary of the Navy, Richard V. Spencer, ordered a fleet-wide Strategic Readiness Review (SRR) in light of the recent surface fleet incidents which resulted in significant loss of life and injury.
  • Navy to Commission Littoral Combat Ship Little Rock DoD 14 Dec 2017 -- The Navy will commission its newest Freedom<-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Little Rock (LCS 9), during an 11:00 a.m. EST ceremony Saturday, December 16, at the Canalside waterfront in Buffalo, New York.
  • TF 51/5 commences bilateral amphibious combat rehearsal USMC News 14 Dec 2017 -- Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51, 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade announced the commencement of a bilateral amphibious combat rehearsal in international waters off the coast of Djibouti, Africa, yesterday.
  • ONR Announces Successful Final Helicopter Autonomous Flight Demonstration NNS 14 Dec 2017 -- Autonomy options for the Marine Corps have taken a major step forward, as ONR officials announced Dec. 13, a successful final helicopter flight demonstration with autonomous capability at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, part of the Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS) program.
  • NSWC Philadelphia's 3D Virtual Dry Dock Paves Way for CVN-78 Class Carriers NNS 14 Dec 2017 -- Engineers from the Advanced Data, Prototyping Technologies, and Virtual Environments (ADAPT.VE) Lab at Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) recently completed a project creating 3-Dimensional (3D) point cloud representations of Dry Dock 8 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY).
  • Lincoln Completes First F-35 Carrier Qualification NNS 14 Dec 2017 -- The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) successfully completed Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) Carrier Qualifications for the F-35C Lightning II program, carrier qualifying the first nine fleet aviators in the new aircraft, while underway Dec. 7-11.
  • Guam Welcomes USS Asheville NNS 14 Dec 2017 -- The Guam submarine force welcomed the crew and families of Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Asheville (SSN 758) during a homecoming celebration at Naval Base Guam following the submarine's homeport shift from Pearl Harbor, Dec. 14.
  • Upgrade on Track: F-35s to Get More Missiles, Better Targeting Capabilities Sputnik 14 Dec 2017 -- US military engineers are back on track to upgrade the F-35's software package after months of delays, according to a new report.

  • Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the start of the European Council meeting NATO 14 Dec 2017

  • Report Says Land-Mine Casualties Up In 2016, Record Number Of Child Victims RFE/RL 14 Dec 2017 -- A new report says armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, and Yemen contributed to a second year of "exceptionally high" casualties caused by land mines.

  • Female Afghan Army Officers to Learn Warfare Tactics in India Sputnik 14 Dec 2017 -- As part of Afghanistan's ambitious target of making its armed forces inclusive of at least 10 percent women, a group of freshly recruited women officers of the Afghan Army is learning warfare techniques at India's Officers Training Academy.

  • New aircraft carrier to safeguard sovereignty People's Daily 14 Dec 2017 -- China's first totally domestically built aircraft carrier will reportedly start its sea trial soon, strengthening not only the country's naval power but also the overall national defense. If the Type 001 Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, was the path-breaker then the new aircraft carrier (Type 001A) will lead the scientific modernization of the defense sector. The as-yet unnamed 50,000-ton Type 001A aircraft carrier has a design similar to the 60,000-ton Liaoning, with a ski jump-style deck for taking off and a conventional oil-fueled steam turbine power plant.

  • DoD Shows Iranian Weapons as Proof of Tehran's Duplicitous Ambitions AFPS 14 Dec 2017 -- Successive U.S. administrations have warned of Iran's malign influence in the Middle East, but lying in a hangar at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling here is concrete proof that the Iranian regime is exporting arms to sow instability and promote violence throughout the region.
  • Haley Says Iran Must Stop Destabilizing Behavior AFPS 14 Dec 2017 -- Standing in front of an Iranian rocket fired at an international airport in Saudi Arabia, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Iran must stop all its destabilizing behavior.

  • Iraq's Badr Organization chief places fighters under national army Press TV 14 Dec 2017 -- The secretary general of Badr Organization, Iraq's biggest Shia Muslim paramilitary group, has told his fighters to take orders from the national military and sever their relations with the group's political wing, which holds 22 seats in the Iraqi parliament.

  • INS Kalvari Commissioned into the Indian Navy Indian Navy 14 Dec 2017 -- The Honourable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi commissioned INS Kalvari (S-21), the first of the six Scorpene class submarines built under Project 75 (Kalvari Class) into the Indian Navy at an impressive ceremony held at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on 14 December 2017. The event marked the formal induction into the Navy of the first of the six submarines being constructed at Mazagon Docks Ltd., in collaboration with the French builder M/s Naval Group.

  • Pakistan Reports Rare Progress in Tense Ties With Afghanistan VOA 14 Dec 2017 -- Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed for the first time to place "liaison officers" at each other's military headquarters for better security coordination, and Islamabad is awaiting a formal response from Kabul to its proposal for opening a wide-ranging bilateral dialogue.

  • Taiwan will respect U.S. decision on port calls: foreign minister CNA 14 Dec 2017 -- Foreign Minister David Lee (李大維) said during a legislative hearing Thursday that his ministry is thankful for the support of the U.S. Congress in passing a piece of legislation that would facilitate port calls between the U.S. Navy and the Taiwan Navy.
  • US military, govt ties with Taiwan opposed People's Daily 14 Dec 2017 -- The Chinese mainland resolutely opposes any exchanges between militaries or government officials of the United States and Taiwan, a Chinese mainland spokesman said on Wednesday.
  • China Outraged as US Plans Navy Visits to Taiwan Sputnik 14 Dec 2017 -- US President Donald Trump has touched another sensitive issue, when he signed a law which de facto paves the way for military cooperation between the US and Taiwanese Navies. The move sparked fury in China, which claims the island is its own territory.
  • China Accuses US of Meddling Over Potential US Navy Visits to Taiwan VOA 14 Dec 2017 -- China submitted an official protest with the United States Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a measure that could result in U.S. naval warships visiting self-ruled Taiwan.

  • Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders The White House 14 Dec 2017

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