Acording to china´s defence ministry, japanese ships disrupted chinese naval exercices

China Files Protest as Japanese Ships Disrupt Military Exercises – Bloomberg

JMSDF ships were possibly monitoring current PLAN carrier workups. If so I hope some uncensored photos are provided of PLAN carrier operations

More: http://mil.sohu.com/20131101/n389360691_2.shtml

What do they expect, when Chinese subs pop up in US carrier groups …

Netherlands reverses Karel Doorman decision

http://www.janes.com/article/28960/netherlands-reverses-karel-doorman-decision

Indeed, as I indicated.

While the Makassar class is undoubtedly cheap, IIRC the $150m contract price was the payment to Daewoo, not the total cost. I’ve heard, though can’t verify it, that weapons were extra, & it didn’t include the local costs of the two built in Indonesia.

Good ships for a tight budget, but not top drawer. Sensible for Peru, which has just started building two. Chile might prefer Siroco, when she comes on the market, so as to have a matching pair with Foudre (now LSDH-91 Sargento Aldea), which the Armada is reported to be content with, & I’m pretty sure the Brazilian navy would like something a bit more up-market, if possible.

Agree with Stan that Australia doesn’t want KD. The RAN has Choules for transport, & would probably want a couple of dedicated support ships of one type. Also agree re Canada. Fits the stated requirement well, but doesn’t fit the policy of propping up commercially failed shipyards regardless of cost to the military budget.

These are comparisons with LPDs, which the JSS is not. It is an AOR with a cargo/transport/seabaing capability: it does not have a docking well. Besides:

In September, 2013, it was announced that as part of a series of Dutch defense budget cuts, the vessel wouldn’t enter military service [1][3], but this decision has been reversed by the Dutch government. The vessel will get in service when it is completed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Doorman_class_support_ship

Joint logistic Support Ship will replace in 2015 Hr. Ms. Zuiderkruis, which was decommed in 2012 and Zr. Ms. Amsterdam which will decom in 2014 (i.e. without the JSS the Dutch navy would be left without RAS capability, which is unthinkable)

http://www.marineschepen.nl/marschepen/jss.html

The South Korean Navy believes it can deploy two light aircraft carriers by 2036.

S. Korea Envisions Light Aircraft Carrier

The Navy also puts a priority on acquiring reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. In particular, the service laid out plans to buy the Lockheed S-3 Vikings retired from front-fleet service aboard aircraft carriers by the US Navy in January 2009.

The service will purchase 18 S-3 jets and modify them into a new configuration meeting the Navy’s operational requirements. If adopted, it will be the first fixed-wing jet patrol aircraft operated by the South Korean Navy, which flies 16 P-3CK turboprop patrol aircraft.

“The S-3 introduction will offer a great opportunity for the ROK Navy to operate a carrier-based jet, as the service envisions deploying aircraft carriers in the future,” Kim Dae-young, a research member of the Korea Defense & Security Forum, a private defense think tank here. “From the operational perspective, the S-3 is expected to be used for various purposes, such as patrol, surface warfare and aerial refueling.”

Not a likely P3 replacement, therefore 2 carriers envisioned must be of significant size.

Navantia is offering a CEAFAR radar equiped F-105 derivative for the Brazilian Navy Prosuper bid. Despite superlative technical/operational performance earlier US-heavy AEGIS configurations (F100/Spy-D & F310/SPY-1F) apparently failed to attract the Brazilian politicians against DCNS, Fincantieri, BAE and TKMS prtoposals, basicly due to bilateral political issues.

http://www.alide.com.br/joomla/component/content/article/75-extra/4592-ceafar-o-as-na-manga-da-navantia-para-o-prosuper

Other Brazilian Navy naval requipment program updates here:

http://www.alide.com.br/joomla/component/content/article/75-extra/4591-comandante-da-mb-atualiza-alide-sobre-os-programas-de-modernizacao-da-forca

Use Google Translator for a pretty fair access to the original Portuguese text. Comments?

Regards

If/when they choose an ARH missile for their ships, they wouldn’t need much more than sMART-s MK2 OR eLTA aLPHA ….

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5471/9789628544_375bc4d262_o.jpg

Just for fun, with obvious innacuracies.

Double ski-jump :applause:
Mega shipborn armament :stupid:

Maybe one day we will see the F-35C flying with the “White Tigers”.

It is not necessary to include all images of the previous post in a one line reply, I would think.
I’m just saying, as I got banned for less on this forum

Wanshan.