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Spilling her guts out * In response’s to the Pentagon’s latest assessment of Chinese military capability, China issued their usual credulity-stretching denials. Of course everybody spies on everybody, and China has been caught again and again with their hand in the cyber cookie jar. * The US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is now handling the remains of former USS Guardian, the minesweeper that ran aground a reef near the Philippines in January. * The latest Naval War College Review observes [PDF] that the US Marine Corps is almost as large as the entire British or Japanese militaries, and might be too big for its own good. * The British Ministry of Defence released its 2013 review [PDF] of the profit formula used for non-competitive government contracts, since the government tweaked its parameters. * Has the Australian Navy stopped the publication of the number of days at sea by vessel type to hide availability issues? * Hungary is still trying to sell its MiG-29s, according to a local newspaper. They were decommissioned in 2010 and first put on the block the next year. Defense Minister Csaba Hende recently said [in Hungarian] that the country needs to modernize its military equipment, including […]
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Spilling her guts out

* In response’s to the Pentagon’s latest assessment of Chinese military capability, China issued their usual credulity-stretching denials. Of course everybody spies on everybody, and China has been caught again and again with their hand in the cyber cookie jar.

* The US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is now handling the remains of former USS Guardian, the minesweeper that ran aground a reef near the Philippines in January.

* The latest Naval War College Review observes [PDF] that the US Marine Corps is almost as large as the entire British or Japanese militaries, and might be too big for its own good.

* The British Ministry of Defence released its 2013 review [PDF] of the profit formula used for non-competitive government contracts, since the government tweaked its parameters.

* Has the Australian Navy stopped the publication of the number of days at sea by vessel type to hide availability issues?

* Hungary is still trying to sell its MiG-29s, according to a local newspaper. They were decommissioned in 2010 and first put on the block the next year. Defense Minister Csaba Hende recently said [in Hungarian] that the country needs to modernize its military equipment, including its helicopters.

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