這兩家不和的造船廠是波羅的海造船廠和北方造船廠。波羅的海造船廠是956EM5型驅逐艦葉漿和鍋爐的主要建商，是俄國唯一建造軍用漿葉和鍋爐的企業。北方造船廠則是建造現代級驅逐艦的總包商。

(中央社記者張弘光莫斯科一日專電)俄羅斯海軍北方艦隊編號為「K-159」的退役核潛艇，三十日凌晨在巴倫支海海域沉沒造成九人死亡的慘劇。肇事原因是當時這艘核潛艇正由四艘平底船拖往一家輪船修理廠準備拆卸，因實驗新拖吊方式失去平衡而翻覆沉沒。

據此間消息報導，K-159是俄羅斯冷戰時期蘇聯第一代核潛艇。此間燈塔廣播電台引用一名曾經擔任該艇艇長的官員談話指出，該潛水艇早在服役期間在水裡功能良好，但在水面航行時就故障百出。十四年前該艇就已退役，原定要拆解，三十日實驗新拖吊方式拖往波利亞爾內一個船塢，但遭遇暴風雨失去平衡而翻覆沉沒。

潛艇沉沒到一百七十公尺深的海底，只有一名艇員逃脫生還，其他九人死亡。俄國國防部說潛艇上的核反應器事前已經關閉，艇上也沒有武器裝備。

(中央社記者盧太城台東縣三日電)中國海洋研究船向陽紅九號，最近密集出現在台灣東部海域，軍方研判可能和在東部的軍方漢光演習有關。

軍方人員表示，向陽紅九號八月三十、三十一日一直逗留在綠島東方四十五海里處，海巡署海洋巡防總局緝私艇曾前往盤查，對方表示只是單純的水文研究，由於向陽紅九號尚未侵入我國海域，緝私艇只能跟在它附近，不能驅離。

內地企業購自俄羅斯，已退役的基輔號航空母艦，在河北省秦 皇島的船廠進行改裝工程時，發生火警，兩名工人死亡．事發在 昨日上午，由於艦內結構複雜，走廊佈滿濃煙，消防一度無法進 入灌救，最後經過六小時，才將火警救熄． 由於火警對基輔號的結構，無造成大破壞，預計基輔號可如期 在本月十六日，開往天津及向公眾開放，成為新的旅遊點．

海軍為四艘紀德艦完成命名 紀德明德同德武德

(中央社記者陳亦偉台北四日電)海軍總部晚間宣布，自
美採購的四艘紀德艦，將分別命名為紀德、明德、同德
、武德，以彰顯海軍「以德為本」的忠義軍風，四艘艦
的啟封將在美國南卡羅萊納的道頓 (Deytens)船廠進行
，首艘艦八月底已進行船體檢查及戰鬥系統軟體更新。

海總計畫署副署長季元俊指出，海軍評估紀德艦的
綜合戰力，足以因應二○○五到二○一○年間，因中共
擴建海軍兵力所造成的威脅，加上接艦期短、經費低廉
，因此決定向美方購買，除增加海軍水面艦隊戰力外，
也做為未來獲得「先進戰系」(即神盾艦)前的先期艦。

季元俊表示，經台美雙方研商，已於今年七月確定
由位在美國南卡羅萊納查爾斯頓的「道頓」船廠做為四
艘紀德艦的啟封廠，八月上旬，首艘艦已自費城拖運至
道頓廠，其餘三艘也將在年底前完成運送，首艘艦已在
八月二十五日進行船體檢查，而美方為台灣進行「戰鬥
系統新威脅提升」的軟體，則在七月就進行更新與整合
，以因應台海作戰。

海總表示，四艘紀德艦將分別命名為紀德、明德、
同德、武德，以彰顯海軍軍風，編號分別為一八零一、
零二、零三及零五。

海總在今天送交立法院的九十三年度預算中，編列
新台幣兩百四十三億九千五百四十四萬六千元，執行四
艘紀德艦軍購案，依照海軍的規劃，全案係循軍售管道
向美方以啟封的方式購買，首艘艦預計民國九十四年底
返國，第二、三、四艘艦將於九十五到九十六年間陸續
返台。

海軍這次除購買四艘紀德級飛彈驅逐艦外，還有二
百四十八枚標準二型防空飛彈、三十二枚魚叉反艦飛彈
、備份零組件、維修、船塢支援、人員訓練等設施，國
防部表示，全艦將在美國完成啟封、改裝手續，完成全
戰備後台灣才接受，屆時紀德艦將成為海軍噸位最大、
綜合戰力最強的艦種。920904

苗永慶：魚雷未中目標潛艦危機處理 收穫匪淺

（中央社記者郭傳信安卡拉八日專電）據中東國防科技新聞網頁「中東新聞線」今天報導，曾於今年一月底「驚鴻一瞥」出現在波斯灣某基地的美軍最新戰區補給艦「先鋒號」，在失蹤一段時間後，最近又出現在科威特的海軍基地。

據報導，艦首編號「TSV─1X」的「先鋒號」，是美軍當前最新科技結晶，曾在今年三月二十日英美聯軍對伊拉克發動戰爭的第一天「牛刀小試」，載運美軍海豹突擊隊和反破壞小組，虜獲伊拉克兩座離岸石油轉運站。

(中央社記者陳正杰華盛頓九日專電)最新一期國防新聞週刊報導說，去年剛以鉅資買下德國ＨＤＷ造船廠的美國資本公司已決定將船廠轉售。報導提到，這家美國公司是在德國政府反對以ＨＤＷ提供的技術為台灣生產潛艇之後，降低了藉擁有船廠爭取台灣潛艇訂單的興趣。

八日出刊的最新一期國防新聞說，總部設在芝加哥的投資公司One Equity Partners (OEP)原本希望買下ＨＤＷ造船廠的行動，能夠有助於美國國防大廠諾斯洛普葛魯曼利用ＨＤＷ的船體設計和複合材料，為台灣生產柴電動力潛艇。

諾斯洛普葛魯曼是有意爭取台灣潛艇訂單的美國廠商之一，其他主要美國廠商包括通用動力公司。

報導說，德國政府顧忌中國立場，反對ＨＤＷ的設計和技術被用來生產台灣訂購的潛艇，ＯＥＰ對本案的興趣因而降低。

ＯＥＰ出售ＨＤＷ船廠之後，對美國和其他國家廠商爭取台灣潛艇訂單的意願預料不會有直接影響，但這項行動顯然證實要藉德國的設計為台灣生產潛艇並非易事。

自紐約世貿中心廢墟所挖掘出來的大約廿四噸殘骸鋼筋，由洛杉磯一家船舶包商在八日鎔化，將造成一艘長一百九十六公尺的兩棲攻擊艦頭，新戰艦命名為「紐約」號，預計在二○○七年完成交後給美國海軍。

這艘命名為「紐約」的兩棲攻擊艦，造價為八點五億美元，建造時間為三年。該艦長一百九十六米，能夠搭載八百名海軍官兵並能停降直升飛機。

在九一一事件兩周年紀念日即將來臨前夕，格魯曼公司船舶部門宣佈，世界雙塔的殘骸鋼架重新冶煉成鋼材後，將被鑄造成為艦首的艏材，然後運送到該公司在紐奧爾良的造船廠。

世貿中心的鋼材將用在戰艦切開水面的最前沿部分，目的在紀念九一一事件中的罹難者、英雄人物，以及紐約客在遭到襲擊後所表現出的勇氣。

這廿四噸廢鋼材已運到了路易斯安那州的阿米特市，九日舉行廢鋼材重新冶煉的儀式。據指出，廢鋼材是來自世貿中心的南塔。在兩年前的九一一事件中，第一架美航班機先撞擊了北塔，第二架美航班機再客撞上了南塔，而南塔先於北塔倒坍。

美國國防部長倫斯斐昨天說，反對布希總統的意見將會鼓勵華府的敵人，並妨礙美國的反恐戰爭。

倫斯斐甫結束阿富汗和伊拉克的訪問到此，他強調伊國重建已有進展，並批評外界的質疑。他說如果華盛頓的敵人相信布希可能退縮或他的對手會勝利，對手的活動可能進一步受到鼓舞。

倫斯斐告訴隨行記者說：「他們會深信不疑，進而使更多錢流入恐怖活動，或者更多人參加恐怖活動，或者帶來更多鼓勵，或者使他們把持權力更久。我們的工作無疑會更困難。」

倫斯斐說：「恐怖分子研究美國受到打擊的例子，便自以為我們為屈從於其所作所為。」

在維珍尼亞對開海岸的美國航空母艦華盛頓號, 一架F18大黃蜂戰 機降落時發生意外, 戰機起落架同攔截鋼纜接觸時破裂, 飛出的 碎片將十多人擊傷, 其中三名重傷船員需要由直升機送往岸上醫 院救治.

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美軍指部份機密資料落入中方手上
[12/09 星期五 09:57]

美國海軍就前年四月, 中美軍機在海南上空相撞事故, 發表調查 報告, 指中國當局並無銷毀美國軍機上的所有機密資料, 因此好 有可能部份資料已落入中方手上. 但報告無提到有關機密資料, 會對軍方造成甚麼衝擊. 前年四月一日, 美軍一架偵察機, 在海南陵水附近, 同解放軍一 架戰機發生相撞, 解放軍戰機墮海, 飛行員失蹤. 美軍偵察機受 損, 被逼降落海南陵水, 二十四名美軍機員被扣, 事件僵持一段 時間, 終於獲得解決, 廿四名美軍機員獲釋.

Defense News
September 8, 2003

U.S. Firms Vie For $1B In Israel Navy Awards
Israel Seeks Full Partnership in Deals

By Barbara Opall-Rome, Tel Aviv

By Richard Scott, JDW Naval Editor, London

The UK is currently in the midst of what Rear Adm Nigel Guild, Controller of the Navy and Executive Director 4 in the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), characterises as the busiest and most challenging naval acquisition programme for many years.

As Controller, Adm Guild is a member of the Navy and Admiralty boards, and maintains an overview of all Royal Navy (RN) procurement matters. It is an agenda that currently includes: the new Type 45 air-defence destroyer (six ships under contract with further orders planned); the Astute-class nuclear attack submarine (SSN) programme (three boats on order with further buys planned); and the Bay-class landing ship dock auxiliary vessels (four ships in build). Looking further ahead, the forward equipment programme projects the acquisition of a new class of surface combatant, a future afloat support capability and, most significant of all, two new adaptable aircraft carriers.

But while this may appear to be a bonanza for the UKs warship building base, it is acknowledged that a number of structural, technical and management weaknesses have blighted parts of the shipbuilding industry. In latter years these shortfalls have been opened up to increasing scrutiny as a number of major procurement programmes have fallen behind schedule.

Programme difficulties have hit hardest at BAE Systems Barrow facility, culminating in a series of delays and overruns that have left relations between the DPA and its most important supplier severely strained. Loading problems at the yard have stemmed from difficulties encountered in the introduction of a newly acquired computer-aided design (CAD) system, resulting in engineering congestion and build delays that affected the Landing Platform Dock (Replacement) - LPD(R) - and Auxiliary Oiler programmes. CAD problems, and associated management weaknesses, have more recently had an even more serious impact on the Astute submarine programme.

Things you think are easy can come back to bite you, said Adm Guild speaking at the DMAs Fleet for the Future seminar last January. In the past we had little difficulty getting the hull and platform built, but we worried enormously about the combat system. Now we have a 180º change. Adm Guild also noted that a decline in the UKs commercial shipbuilding industry had made it a lonely market for the DPA to procure ships.

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New carrier age takes off

By Nick Brown, Richard Scott and Kathryn Shaw

Ever since the Second World War, when aircraft carriers established themselves as the pre-eminent naval power projection asset, the debate has raged as to the military value and cost effectiveness of organic naval air power. Critics have argued that the high costs associated with its construction, operation and defence (accounting for accompanying escorts and fleet trains) do not translate in terms of cost or mission effectiveness. They also contend that land-based strike aircraft and long-range cruise missiles represent a viable alternative to the naval air wing, and further suggest that the aircraft carrier is an arcane and potentially vulnerable behemoth in an age of agile network-centric forces.

But proponents maintain that the carrier offers a uniquely mobile, flexible, reconfigurable and truly independent platform for repeated and sustained operations in distant theatres. Its advocates further claim that, far from being a dinosaur of the industrial age, the carrier is today emerging as a critical node in networked concepts of operations. And, in an era of expeditionary operations, the carrier alone enables the unfettered projection of tactical air power independent of any host nation support. Recent operations in Afghanistan, and latterly Iraq (where the US-led coalition had minimal host nation support for land-based fixed-wing fighters and strike assets), have served to cement this view.

Transforming CVN 21M
For over 50 years the aircraft carrier has been a central and highly visible tenet of US foreign and security policy. The ability to influence events by having strike platforms and offensive air assets forward deployed remains the fundamental rationale underpinning the US Navys (USNs) carrier fleet. Seven carriers were surged for deployment as part of Operation Iraq Freedom.

In total, the USN operates a force of 12 aircraft carriers: these comprise nine Nimitz-class ships (with the latest, USS Ronald Reagan [CVN 76], commissioned in July); USS Enterprise (CVN 65); and the conventionally powered USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) and USS John F Kennedy (CV 67). USS Constellation (CV 64) retired in August 2003.

The tenth and final Nimitz-class carrier, USS George H W Bush (CVN 77), was laid down in May 2003 and is scheduled for completion in 2008. It will then remain in service until around 2058.

But while the Nimitz class represents the pinnacle of current carrier capability, it is acknowledged that the design is both manpower and maintenance intensive. To address these shortfalls the USN embarked on a programme to develop a future class of carrier, CVNX, which received Milestone I approval in April 2000. However, in line with the USNs Sea Power 21 policy, CVNX has recently been re-examined and re-scoped to ensure coherence with the navys transformational goals.

Renamed CVN 21, the programme is a core component of the Sea Basing portion of Sea Power 21 to provide the USN with a credible, sustainable, independent forward presence... wherever and whenever it is required, as set out in the USNs carrier mission statement. Rear Adm Dennis M Dwyer, Program Executive Officer Aircraft Carriers in the US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), notes that the first [of 12] CVN 21 carriers will deploy in around 2014 and will have a 50-year life, so the design needs to be transformational.

As the sole source for the design and construction of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Northrop Grummans Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) operation is the prime contractor for the detailed design, construction and integration of CVN 21, effectively a Nimitz-class ship in hullform from the flight deck down.

The carrier new design is required to meet a minimum threshold demand of a 15% increase in sortie rate over the current Nimitz class (from 140 to 160 sorties a day). However, the objective is a further increase of 38% - a 57% increase overall (to 220 sorties a day) during times of high operational tempo.

In designing CVN 21 NNS has tried to look at the USN air wing beyond 2020 so that the future carrier will be capable of launching and recovering future air vehicles, such as replacements for the EA-6B Prowler and E-2C Hawkeye, and unmanned combat air vehicles.

UK studies CVF trade-offs

On the other side of the Atlantic, concerns over the affordability of the 65,000t adaptable carrier design selected as the basis of the UKs Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF) programme in early 2003 have forced the UK Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) and the BAE Systems/Thales industry alliance to urgently explore a smaller and cheaper fallback design concept. Concurrently, the DPA and industry are studying the cost implications of de-scoping certain CVF capability requirements and design features as part of a wide-ranging programme of cost/capability trade-offs.

Due to enter service in 2012 and 2015, the UKs two new carriers are intended to operate the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), selected in September 2002 as the UKs Future Joint Combat Aircraft. They will also embark a Maritime Air Surveillance and Control capability.

In keeping with the increasingly joint nature of operations, it is anticipated that other air assets will be embarked and supported aboard the CVF to suit specific operational circumstances. For example, medium and heavy lift helicopters could be brought aboard to participate in an evacuation and/or disaster relief operation. Alternatively, attack helicopters could be flown from the deck of CVF to provide air support to expeditionary forces.

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2003 02:00:57 AM ]

NEW DELHI: While the Indian and American special forces kicked off a high-altitude exercise in eastern Ladakh on Monday, the Navies of the two countries are gearing up to hold their biggest-ever joint manoeuvres off the Kochi coast in early-October.

The joint naval exercise in the Arabian Sea, ‘‘Malabar-6’’, will witness the participation of an American nuclear submarine for the first time. The other US warships will include two US ‘‘Perry Class’’ destroyers, along with a P-3C Orion long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft.

The Indian side, in turn, will field two ‘‘Kashin Class’’ missile destroyers, anti-submarine Kamov helicopters and a reconnaissance aircraft.

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India: Navy plans indigenous air-defence ship
By: UNI
September 11, 2003

The Indian Navy is planning a new dry dock near the three-century-old Naval Dockyard here to handle bigger ships including aircraft carriers.
There are also plans to build an air-defence ship, which is a smaller version of an aircraft carrier, indigenously, according to naval officials.

The directorate general of naval projects wants to initiate a massive project for the new dry dock, which will be situated next to the existing facilities in the dockyard, a senior Indian Navy official said.

A big dry dock is necessary in Mumbai, as it is also the headquarters of the Western Naval Command (WNC) - the sword arm of the Indian Navy.

The naval dockyard, the biggest in Asia, has four docks - Bombay dock, Torpedo dock, Duncan dock and Cruiser Graving dock.

At any given point of time around twenty ships and submarines can undergo refit at the dockyard, the official said and pointed out that the naval dockyard is one of the finest defence dockyards equipped with state-of-the-art facilities.

The navys aircraft carrier INS Viraat, which underwent a mid-life refit two years ago, had to be sent to the Cochin Shipard Ltd for the retrofitting that increased the warships life by over ten years.

颶風伊莎貝爾吹向美國東岸, 預計在美國時間明日在北卡羅萊納 州登陸, 之後再吹向華盛頓, 將有約五千萬人受到影響, 北卡羅 萊納州及維珍尼亞州經已進入緊急狀態, 當局已下令住在外島及 岸邊的大約十一萬人進行疏散. 在諾福克的約四十艘美國軍艦, 包括航空母艦列根號及多艘潛艇, 就駛往其他地區避風, 空軍一 號總統專機及約一百一十架戰機, 亦飛往其他基地. 美軍太平洋 艦隊發言人強調, 雖然大批軍艦及戰機離開駐扎基地, 但東岸的 保安, 不會受到影響.

俄羅斯一間核廢料處理廠的十二名工作人員，在拆卸一艘退役核 潛艇時，長時間受到超出正常標準的輻射照射，當局說，他們的 健康未受影響，其中一人感到不適，需送往莫斯科檢查，調查發 現是有人違反安全規條，釀成事故。

Indonesia to buy 2 subs as well as other warships
2003-09-20 / Associated Press /

The Indonesian navy will purchase a number of new warships, including two submarines, as part of efforts to modernize its aging fleet, media reports said yesterday.

The announcement by Lambertus F. Silooy, the defense ministrys director of procurement, did not specify which country would be the supplier. But the Indonesian military, which traditionally relied on U.S. weaponry, has said it wants to diversify its sources of defense equipment.

Last month, the air force accepted its first four Russian-built Sukhoi SU-27 long-range fighters and two Mi-35 attack helicopters. The purchase, worth US$192.6 million, is part of a larger barter deal between Jakarta and Moscow that may see the delivery of up to 40 Sukhoi planes this decade.

The Jakarta Post daily cited Silooy as saying the navy would receive two submarines, four guided-missile destroyers and two minesweepers between 2005 and 2011. According to the report, each submarine will cost about US$220 million.

An undetermined number of French-made Exocet surface-to-surface missiles costing US$140 million would also be acquired, Silooy said.

The Indonesian navy currently has 117 ships in operation, including two submarines, 14 destroyers and frigates, 57 patrol boats and 44 support ships such as oilers and water tankers. Many of the ships are said to be unserviceable and some date back to the early 1950s.

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