Even more South China Sea news

I am just going to note this here.

South China Sea news

The Philippines is upgrading their navy, and for a $100.

The Chinese maverick is at it again.

The Navy needs some new cruisers

Story here.  What is depressing is the previous designs that never went anywhere.  What a waste.

This is not good news

5000 shoulder fired SAMs in a country on the verge of collapse.

Well this is depressing

There is tons of money to be saved by cutting out the waste in Defense Department.

Iran

Some of the stories out of Iran seem pretty crazy.  This one does.

Is it worth salvaging?

It might be.

Indian Israeli military cooperation

The Indians have been shifting a lot of their military procurement to Israel from Russia.  The story of their recent SAM purchase is here.

South East Asia gets hotter

Taiwan is upgrading its fleet of aircraft. Makes sense to me, and IMHO the US should sell more such aircraft to Taiwan.  Only a united front will discourage China from adventurism in the South China Sea.

Russian strength or Russian weakness?

Russia is upgrading the missiles on two of their Oscar II SSGNs.  Originally they had planned to upgrade the missiles on all 8 boats, but now are upgrading only two.  I suspect this is an indication of economic weakness and budget problems.