Contents | mArcH 2008
3 Editorial comment
Editor David Foxwell Future fleet could take battering from
Editorial Assistant Clare Nicholls
budget cuts
Design/Production Manager Sandy Defraine
Advertisement Manager Donna McGrath
4-8 News
Advertisement Production Manager Stephen Bell
Marketing Manager Adelaide Proctor
Publisher Mark J Staunton-Lambert
10-36 Features
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Feature 1 US Navy
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10-12 US examines nuclear option for
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Feature 2 Advanced hullforms
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13-14 Three contracts awarded for
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Feature 3 Unmanned vehicles
16-17 UK studies USVs via capability
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Feature 4 Helicopter handling
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18-21 Small ship helo ops challenge
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22-23 Ship/air interface simulation supports
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Feature 5 Submarine rescue
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26-27 Launch and recovery system is up
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Feature 6 S
sus ac, massa. Quisque
urface ship propulsion
venenatis interdum elit.
28-30 IES primed for warship propulsion

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Feature 7 Amphibious ships
January -
December 2006
31-33 NAO report identifies shortcomings
in LSD (A) procurement
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Feature 8 India
34-36 Smaller Indian naval acquisition programmes

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Contracts have been awarded
by the US Navy for the next phase
of
31
An NAO report has criticised the
UK Ministry of Defence for its
the Joint High Speed Vessel. handling of the Bay class project.
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