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U.S Navy Second New Carrier

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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lead ship <i>Gerald R Ford</i> (CVN 78) is tracking to cost around USD12.9 billion</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The USN is planning to procure second-in-class <i>John F Kennedy</i> (CVN 79) for USD11.3 billion</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the US Navy's (USN's) new Ford-class aircraft carrier programme prepares for lead ship launch in mid-November, a 3-D computer-aided modelling tool may hold the key to helping shipbuilders cut costs and save time constructing future carriers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), the division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) building the USN's new first-of-class <i>Gerald R Ford</i> (CVN 78), officials told <i>IHS Jane's</i>that achieving cost savings and efficiencies on subsequent Ford-class ships involves the assembly of larger-size units and a greater degree of outfitting of those units earlier in the construction process.</span></div>

U.S Navy Second New Carrier

Key Points Lead ship Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) is tracking to cost around USD12.9 billion The USN is planning to procure second-in-class...

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China Fighter jets tail U.S and Japan fighter jet.

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China launched two fighter planes Friday to investigate flights by a dozen U.S. and Japanese reconnaissance and military planes in its new maritime air defense zone over the East China Sea, state media said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China responded on Thursday to growing international defiance of its new air-defense zone in the East China Sea both by sending advanced fighter jets to the area and trying to play down any threat of military retaliation—underlining the confusion and escalated tension over territorial disputes in East Asia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The announcement by China's air force that it had sent fighters and an early warning aircraft to patrol the zone came just a few hours after Japan and South Korea, following the U.S. lead, said their military aircraft had flown into the zone without notifying Beijing over the past few days, and would continue to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The United States and other countries have warned that the new zone could boost chances for miscalculations, accidents and conflicts, though analysts believe Beijing's move is not intended to spark any aerial confrontations but rather a long-term strategy to solidify claims to disputed territory by simply marking the area as its own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The State Department said Wednesday it is advising U.S. airlines to take necessary steps to operate safely in China's newly declared air defense zone in the East China Sea, a day after two American B-52 bombers flew through the contested airspace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters at a daily press briefing that the U.S. is attempting to determine whether China's new air defense zone rule requiring foreign aircraft to identify themselves applies to commercial airlines, Reuters reported.</span></div>

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US B-52s Fly over China's 'Air Defense Zone'

Two B-52 bombers from Guam flew recently through China’s newly expanded air defense zone during a training flight that had been planned for a year, a Defense official told Air Force Times on Tuesday.<br />
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The Wall Street Journal first reported the two bombers flew over the Senkaku Islands about 7 p.m. Monday without getting permission ahead of time from China, which announced days earlier that it was expanding its Air Defense Identification Zone to include the island chain.<br />
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The bombers were not armed and Chinese aircraft did not attempt to intercept the B-52s during the aircraft, said the defense official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter. The flight was described as a routine training mission.<br />
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The U.S. government has been alarmed by China’s decision to expand the air defense zone, which requires that aircraft flying in the East China Sea report their flight plans to China beforehand.<br />
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“We are very concerned about this escalatory development which increases regional tensions and affects U.S. interests and those of our allies,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in an email. “We have conveyed our strong concerns to China and are coordinating closely with allies and partners in the region.”<br />
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An American carrier battle group and a flotilla of Japanese warships will arrive Wednesday near a vast stretch of ocean claimed by China in what is shaping up as a test of how Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the U.S. will stand up to the challenge.<br />
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China has been laying claim to nearly 1 million square miles of ocean known as the East China Sea, insisting that the sea’s energy resources and fisheries belong to China. Much of the ocean territory it claims is hundreds of miles from its shore, including waters off the coasts of Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.<br />
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On Saturday China went further than ever, announcing it had designated much of the sea as an air-defense zone it controls. The zone includes the Japan-held Senkaku Islands, a string of uninhabited islets that China calls the Diaoyus. The Chinese Defense Ministry said the zone was created to “guard against potential air threats.”<br />
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“China has been pushing and testing Abe since he took office and for the most part he has been passing,” said Brad Glosserman, executive director of the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Honolulu.<br />
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“This is a very dumb, very risky move by China,” he said. “If the People’s Liberation Army tries to interfere (with the U.S.-Japan exercise), there will be real problems.”<br />
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The challenge represents a test for Abe, a conservative party prime minister elected in 2012 who has vowed to shift Japan’s deferential military posture to a more muscular stance that recognizes its right to defend itself.<br />
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On Tuesday, Abe directly confronted China, stating he would not recognize the Chinese air zone over the East China Sea or any of its claims to the Senkakus.<br />
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“We will take steps against any attempt to change the status quo by use of force as we are determined to defend the country’s sea and airspace,” Abe said.<br />
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Chinese action represents a “destabilizing attempt to alter the status quo” and “will not in any way change how the United States conducts military operations in the region.”<br />
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To that end, the U.S. Navy arrived in force Tuesday off the coast of Japan for a complex exercise in which Japanese naval ships and U.S. fighter jets, warships and submarines will practice scenarios for a possible attack on Japan.<br />
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Sailing into the waters southeast of Okinawa on Tuesday to prepare for a long-planned exercise was the aircraft carrier George Washington, guided-missile cruiser Antietam, guided-missile destroyers Curtis Wilbur, Lassen, McCampbell, Mustin, maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft and a Navy submarine.<br />
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China issued a protest with Japan and the U.S. government over the exercises and opposition to China’s self-claimed right to an air-defense zone over the sea. Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said Japan’s complaint about the zone is “absolutely groundless and unacceptable,” according to Japan’s Kyodo news service.<br />
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Yang said Japan has “no right to make irresponsible remarks” on the sea’s airspace, portions of which have been jointly administered by Japan and the United States for decades. Yujun also urged the United States to “not take sides.”<br />
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Earlier this year, Japan scrambled fighter jets when Chinese planes flew near the Senkaku islands, a rich fishing ground annexed by Japan in 1895 and purchased by the legislature in 2012. Chinese interceptor aircraft conducted the first flights into the zone after it went into force at 10 a.m. on Saturday.<br />
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The Chinese moves have inflamed Japan and worried other nations that say they may now need to inform China when their commercial flights are heading over the East China Sea. It also has U.S. allies concerned that China is becoming more aggressive against them since the installation a year ago of Xi Jinping as leader of the Communist regime.<br />
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But Hagel reaffirmed the U.S. military commitment to the 1952 U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty that commits Washington to intervene in defense of Japan if there is an attack on Japanese-administered territory. And Abe has backed up his belief that Japan must modify its stance held since World War II that Japan’s defense can be outsourced entirely to the United States.<br />
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Abe has been pressing for Japan to raise its readiness and play a bigger role in global security since he came to power in December 2012 and won a majority for his Liberal Democratic Party in the upper house of the Japan legislature in July.<br />
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Defense spending in Japan has seen its largest increase in 22 years, says Kyodo. The spending has zeroed in on boosting Japan’s capabilities to defend against amphibious assaults.<br />
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But Abe has yet to garner the votes to change Japan’s constitution so its defense forces can project the full military powers of a sovereign state. The constitution, written by the U.S. military after the defeat of Japan in WWII, restrains what Japan can do militarily.<br />
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The U.S. military retains bases in Japan, primarily in Okinawa, and exercises between the two militaries have grown in size and complexity in recent years.<br />
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Although precise locations have not been announced for the latest exercise, specific training events — which will include land-based patrol planes and other aircraft — are supposed to take place across large stretches of Japanese and international airspace, including parts of the East China Sea.<br />
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China’s Ministry of National Defense announced that any foreign aircraft entering its newly drafted “East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone” must file a flight plan with Chinese authorities, stay in two-way radio contact and follow other instructions.<br />
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Failure to do so will result in “defensive emergency measures” by China’s armed forces, according to the statement.<br />
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It is not clear why China chose to announce the new air restrictions now, said Narushige Michishita, Director of the Security and International Studies Program at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. Whether Jinping approved of it or the military demanded it is unknown, Michishita said.<br />
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“It is a scary scenario,” Michishita said. “What happens next is up to China.”

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Congressional Republicans and Israeli officials are voicing their strong opposition to the six-month “first st<a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> government last night, calling the deal dangerous and saying it doesn't go far enough in dismantling the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> nuclear program.</div>
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Iran and USA are talking on the nuclear program-me . USA is trying to stop the Iran nuclear program-me as it will effect the world peace</div>
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Speaking on ABC News on Sunday morning, Republican Sen. Sax by Chambliss said “nothing in the details that I have seen thus from moves us in the direction” of stopping the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> uranium enrichment program. “They’re going to continue to enrich uranium” he said.</div>
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Despite statements from US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry that the interim deal makes an <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> bomb less likely, Chambliss added: “I just don’t see this movement in the direction of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon at all,” since the current deal expires in six months if no longer-term deal can be reached.</div>
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While the agreement calls for the US to loosen some economic sanctions on the<a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> economy, Chambliss insisted current sanctions are working and “now is the time to tighten those sanctions and get a long-term deal” on dismantling the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> enrichment program.</div>
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And despite Obama’s pleas to Congress to leave further sanctions alone for the moment in order to let diplomacy work, Chambliss said, “You’re going to see a strong movement in the United States Senate toward tightening sanctions” in the coming days.</div>
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Announced late Saturday night after intensive negotiations in Geneva, the Non-Proliferation Treaty [NPT] signed by Iran and the “P5+1” <i>—</i>the United States, France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia — is limited to the next six months, during which time the two sides will work to hammer out a more comprehensive accord. The document prohibits Iran from installing or starting new centrifuges, and demands the country halt work at its plutonium reactor while submitting to inspections by international nuclear inspection teams.</div>
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The deal also calls for Iran to leave inoperable about half of the centrifuges installed at its Natanz facility and three-quarters of installed centrifuges at Fordow to ensure the plants cannot enrich uranium.</div>
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In return, the United States will temporarily halt some economic sanctions against Iran worth about $6 billion or $7 billion, according to the White House.</div>
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“The relief Iran gets under this agreement is insignificant, economically” a White House official insisted Saturday night, adding they are “limited, temporary, targeted, and reversible” if the Iranians do not adhere to the terms of the agreement.</div>
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The White House insisted no sanctions targeted at Iran’s sponsorship of terrorist groups, or targeting its support for the regime in Syria, would change.</div>
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Obama hailed the temporary deal as marking<i> “</i>the first time in nearly a decade we have halted the progress of the<a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a>  nuclear program, and key parts of the program will be rolled back.”</div>
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As with any negotiated deal, different interpretations of the written text emerged almost immediately.</div>
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In a press conference in Geneva after the deal was announced,<a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a>  Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted “people should stop threatening to use force because that option is no longer on the table” and the agreement recognizes the “inalienable right” of Iran to be able to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.</div>
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Kerry, who rushed to Geneva on Friday to take part in negotiations, shot back minutes later: “This first step does not say that Iran has a right to enrichment.”</div>
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A senior Obama administration official backed up the Kerry’s comments, saying flatly “The document does not say anything about recognizing the right to enrich uranium. We do not recognize their right to enrich uranium.”</div>
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On Sunday morning, Kerry backed up those comments, telling ABC News “There is no right to enrich. We do not recognize the right to enrich.”</div>
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“Under the terms of this agreement there will be a negotiation over whether or not” Iranians can pursue future enrichments. “They could only do that by mutual agreement, and nothing is agreed on until everything is agreed on ... they could only gain that capacity only if they live up to all the terms” he added.</div>
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., released a statement on the agreement Sunday morning, reading the deal in the same way as the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> government .</div>
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The agreement “explicitly and dangerously recognizes that Iran will be allowed to enrich uranium” Cantor said. “It is clear why the Iranians are claiming this deal recognizes their right to enrich,” he added.</div>
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Cantor lines up behind growing Republican calls for more sanctions as well, stating that “loosening sanctions and recognizing Iran’s enrichment program is a mistake, and will not stop Iran’s march toward nuclear capability.”</div>
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South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted Saturday night that “unless the agreement requires dismantling of the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a>centrifuges, we really haven’t gained anything.”</div>
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