The LCS and SSC Survivability Dilemma

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Is the United States’ littoral combatant ship (LCS) and follow-on small surface combatant (SSC) more survivable than larger combat vessels? Not according to Steven Wills. That’s because these vessels’ ‘operational profiles’ are defined more by weight limitations than anything else.

By Steve Wills for Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC)

This article was originally published on 15 January 2015 by the Center for International Maritime Security.

Chief Pentagon Weapon Tester Dr. Michael Gilmore remains fundamentally dissatisfied with the survivability of the Navy’s littoral combatant ship (LCS) and its upgraded follow-on, the small surface combatant (SSC). In an emailed statement described in a January 8th Bloomberg article, Dr. Gilmore stated, “Notwithstanding reductions to its susceptibility” compared with the design of the first 32 ships,

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Negative mortgage rates in Denmark…$3.6 trillion of European and Japanese debt with negative yields!

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Global Deflation

With negative interest rates in Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium and Denmark, it was about time that we saw negative mortgage rates in Europe as well. In January, as much as $3.6 trillion of debt in the Europe and Japan traded at negative yields. Unprecedented bond buying by the European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan (BOJ) has resulted in a manipulation of global capital markets that could result in another major asset bubble.

Negative Mortgage Rates

The situation has gotten so out of hand, that not only are interest rates -0.2% at the ECB’s overnight deposit facility, commercial banks are lending to individuals at negative rates as well. The ECB’s Mario Draghi may be biting off more than he can chew

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¿Dónde están desplegados los 2.100 militares españoles que participan en operaciones internacionales?

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Un militar español ha muerto este jueves en un ataque del Ejército israelí contra posiciones de Hezbolá en el Líbano

  • La misión más importante en la que participará España a partir de 2015 será la de entrenamiento y asesoramiento del Ejército iraquí para contener el avance del Estado Islámico
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Greece.- A turn toward responsibility

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ekathimerini 29.01.2015

 

By Alexis Papachelas

Whatever is meant to happen with regard to the new government’s negotiations with the country’s partners and creditors will happen swiftly as political correctness and established diplomatic courtesy is currently running out on both sides. No one should nurture any illusions. Anyone who does so will not differ from politicians meeting with Andreas Papandreou in the 1980s, when the PASOK founder managed to appease them with his well-known mantra “I can understand exactly what you’re saying,” before firing them as soon as they were out of the door.

Acting as messengers now will be the usual suspects: French President Francois Hollande and European Parliament President Martin Schulz, among others, based on the logic that a

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