Contents | JULY/AUGUST 2008
5 Editorial comment
Editor David Foxwell Bids submitted for more examples of
troubled LCS
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6-12 News
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6-12 News
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Feature 1 Aircraft carriers
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Feature 2 Coast guard and patrol craft
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18-19 New patrol craft for Trinidad and Tobago
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24-25 Ocean upgrade approaches completion
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Feature 4 Germany
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Feature 5 Ice class vessels
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Feature 6 Submarines
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32-34 Vidar concept study explores a high spec
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35-37 End-of-life preparation for submarines
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The German Navy’s fi rst
Sachsen class frigate was
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Australian shipbuilder Austal
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Ships Pty is to build six 30m
commissioned in November aluminium fast patrol craft for
2004 the Republic of Trinidad and
Tobago
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In the Vidar project, BMT is
studying a high spec non-
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