台灣自行研製的新一代隱形導彈快艇，正式服役，軍方在高雄左 營基地舉行成軍典禮，將負責沿海防衛及突擊任務，提升台灣海 軍戰力。 代號光華六號計劃的台灣隱形導彈快艇，排水量一百七十多噸， 是現役海鷗級導彈快艇的三倍，裝備四枚雄風二型反艦導彈，艦 體採取降低雷達探測的設計，最高航速三十三節。

軍購新突破 我擬請美向荷購P3C

薛孟杰／台北報導　一度因美方拒絕出租、我方質疑新機太貴致使進度停滯的長程預警反潛機建案，最近出現突破曙光。據指出，由於荷蘭近期將汰換10架P3C獵戶座反潛機（如圖，本報資料照），該批P3C目前也正在美國原廠進行性能提升，頗符合國防部「租借或在國際現貨市場尋求」購機原則，軍方因此正研究請美方代購再轉售我國之可能，降低中共禁止荷蘭售我武器之壓力。

　　根據國防部日前向立院提報年度業務報告指出，為增強反封鎖戰力，國防部曾在民國86年華美會議向美方提出更新海軍現有S2-T反潛機的計畫，並在90年獲得美方同意，但基於美方已經停產P3C反潛機，如果要求重開生產線，單機價格高昂，所以國防部規劃採取「租借、尋求於國際現貨市場或美、日研發新機型」等方式辦理，並將以特別預算方式支應。

　　軍方人士指出，在美方建議我方優先採購的各項武器清單中，長程定翼反潛機是國軍迄今為止唯一完成建案程序者，但由於該機生產線已關閉，重開生產線，每架P3C預估就要3億美金，也遭立委質疑是「冤大頭」，海軍因此轉向美方爭取出租12架美軍現役P3C反潛機，以搭配紀德艦返國後，拉大作戰縱深，讓中華民國海軍此後得以走向大洋作戰，但這項要求遭美軍以P3C自己都不夠用而拒絕，全案進度因此停滯。

以色列宣佈擁有潛射核彈能力，以魚叉飛彈攜帶小型核彈頭

Israel Can Launch Nuclear Weapons from Subs -Report
Sat Oct 11, 1:53 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Israeli officials say Israel has modified U.S.-made Harpoon cruise missiles so it can launch nuclear warheads from submarines, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.

The State Department and Pentagon declined to comment on the report, as did an Israeli military spokesman, in line with that nations policy of refusing to say if it has nuclear weapons.

Israel is regarded as the only nuclear power in the Middle East.

According to a story posted on the newspapers Web site, U.S. officials disclosed the information as a caution to Israels enemies amid heightened tensions in the region and concern over Irans atomic program.

The newspaper said two U.S. administration officials described the Israeli modifications and an Israeli official confirmed it. All three asked not to be identified.

According to the U.S. officials, Israel modified nuclear warheads to fit the widely used Harpoon cruise missile. They would be carried on three diesel-powered submarines delivered by a German builder at the end of the last decade.

An Israel Navy Web site said the submarines carry Harpoon missile but does not give details on the warheads.

Deployed by the U.S. Navy since 1977, the Harpoon is in the arsenal of 28 nations. Israel has 120 Harpoons capable of submarine launch, according to various researchers. That version is 15 feet long and weighs 1,500 pounds with a range of 70 miles or more. It can carry a 488-pound warhead.

〔編譯魏國金╱綜合報導〕華盛頓時報十一日報導，根據軍方消息來源與前美國駐寮國大使指出，睽違近三十年後，第一艘美國軍艦將於十一月停靠越南港口五天，進行歷史性的訪問。

　 這是自一九七五年美國因美越戰爭撤離越南以來，首次進行的軍事拜會行動。該場戰爭奪走美國五萬八千條生命，並造成約一百三十萬至三百萬南越與北越人民喪生。此外，估計約一千兩百名美軍戰俘與失蹤者至今仍下落不明。

　 一名軍方官員十日指出，這項訪問主要基於反映兩國雙邊關係日益加深的象徵意義，該艘艦艇將停靠越南五天。美國海軍太平洋司令部發言人則以安全理由，拒絕置喙。

　 自一九九五年美越恢復外交關係以來，兩國雙邊關係逐漸改善，二○○○年雙方簽訂雙邊貿易協定，九日兩國並簽署恢復商務飛航協定。

　 前美國駐寮國大使、五角大廈智庫「亞太安全研究中心」外交政策顧問小所羅門說，「軍事對軍事方面的交流關係，目前處於發展階段」。

　 小所羅門與軍方來源皆稱，越南國防部長范文茶定於今年年末拜訪美國，這將是越戰後首位越南國防部長到訪美國。越南外長阮怡年近期才拜訪美國。

　 小所羅門說，儘管兩國關係增溫，但許多美國人仍嚴重關切美國戰俘與在戰爭中失蹤者問題，以及越南違反人權等相關議題。

（中央社記者姜遠珍漢城二十一日專電）北韓當局繼二十日下午在朝鮮半島東海岸發射一枚射程在一百公里以下的地對艦飛彈之後，今天上午又發射一枚類似的短程飛彈，似乎是向在曼谷舉行亞太經濟合作會議 (APEC)峰會期間，與南韓總統盧武鉉討論遏阻北韓研發核武的美國總統布希進行示威。

南韓「聯合新聞通訊社」今天以東京專電引述日本NHK報導指出，今天上午北韓朝向東海（日本海）發射的一枚地對艦飛彈，射程大約在一百公里左右，至於飛彈的種類及彈落地點，目前尚無法查證。

北韓當局曾於二十日下午發射了一枚地對艦飛彈，南韓合同參謀本部表示，此乃北韓例行活動，今年以來，已進行過二至三次類似的飛彈發射演習，據推斷，極有可能是北韓對現擁有的地對艦飛彈加以改良後，實施的性能測試工作。至於飛彈類型及具體的發射地點，尚無法證實。

南韓軍事專家透露，北韓當局曾於今年二、三月間，連續兩度朝向東海（日本海）發射過飛彈，卻均未能成功，有可能是發射了一枚中國製蠶式地對艦巡弋飛彈，據瞭解，二十日發射的飛彈，是一枚射程在一百公里以下，無法載運核彈頭的飛彈。

2003.10.22 中國時報
中國與巴基斯坦舉行海軍聯合演習
中央社

　香港文匯報報導，據巴基斯坦聯合新聞社從北京國防管道獲得的消息，巴基斯坦與中國海軍於十月二十一日起舉行聯合軍事演習。這項演習目的在進一步促進兩國在防務方面的雙邊合作。這次演習也是中共海軍有史以來首次與外國海軍舉行聯合軍演。

　據透露，演習將在上海海岸附近的水域舉行，雙方的前線戰艦、水上飛機和直升機將參演。巴基斯坦的兩艘載有七百名官兵的戰艦已於十月十八日抵達上海。

　報導表示，此次演習將有助於雙方進一步加強保衛海上邊防線和確保海上利益的能力，同時也為雙方分享海上經驗，處理海事事宜，相互享受對方的防衛能力提供了良機。

　此次演習是在印度和美國海軍本月初舉行有史以來最大規模海軍演習之後，其中意義耐人尋味。印度傳媒報導指出，自從印度和美國建立起更加密切的軍事關係，並從以色列和俄羅斯購買大量先進的武器之後，巴基斯坦對中國大陸的依賴性就進一步增強了。

Defense Week
October 20, 2003,

Volume 24, Number 41

Lockheed Martin Sells Rocket Launchers To Korea

Lockheed Martin said Wednesday it received a $127 million Foreign Military
Sale contract from the Navy to deliver the MK 41 Vertical Launching System
(VLS) for three Republic of Korea KDX-III destroyers.

The MK 41 VLS is capable of launching missiles for every threat in naval
warfare, including anti-air, anti-submarine, ship self-defense, land attack,
and missile defense, the company said.

Koreas KDX-III ships will feature cutting-edge design and systems
integration, Lockheed Martin said, including the companys Aegis Weapon
System.

Pacific Daily News (Hagatna, Guam)

October 18, 2003 Saturday

Pg. 3A

Nigeria buys Coast Guard cutter

Gene Park, Staff, [email protected]

By Gene Park

Pacific Daily News

The Nigerian navy wants it. The U.S. Coast Guard doesnt need it.

The Guam-based Coast Guard cutter Sassafras, which helped stop the entry of
boatloads of illegal immigrants from China in the late 1990s, will be
decommissioned on Halloween. The Sassafras has been sold to Nigeria and will
set sail to the country two days later under the Nigerian flag.

A new Coast Guard cutter, the 2,000-ton Sequoia, which is twice the weight
of the Sassafras, is expected to arrive in Guam by August next year from
Marinette, Wis.

It will have so much more space, giving us more habitability, said
Sassafras Chief Warrant Officer IV Michael Cullimore. Its going to have
high-tech equipment, which will be less labor-intensive.

The upgrade to a modern and larger ship comes as the Coast Guard on Guam
takes on an added role of helping beef up homeland security.

Since Sept. 11, homeland security has gone up the list of our priorities,
said Lt. James Jarnac, executive officer on the Sassafras and a member of
the Coast Guard for 12 years.

While waiting for the Sequoia to arrive, Jarnac said the Coast Guard on
island will make up for the workload. Another cutter, Galveston Island, is
homeported on Guam.

Equipment obsolete

Cullimore said Sassafras departure is overdue, as the cutter is 60 years
old.

The ship is old, the equipment has become obsolete, and its become
time-consuming to maintain the ship, he said.

Commissioned in 1943, the Sassafras was homeported in New Jersey and Hawaii
before arriving in Guam in the fall of 1998. Jarnac said the ship has been
used to aid navigation, mark safe waters, as well as ensure safe navigation
for commercial, military and recreational ships.

The Sassafras also has kept watch on the surrounding islands of Rota, Tinian
and Saipan. On Oct. 1, the crew was on a training mission to Yap, and
carried medical supplies and humanitarian aid for the islands flu epidemic.

Although the Sassafras equipment may be obsolete to the U.S. Coast Guard,
Capt. Jo Olutoyin of the Nigerian navy said that the ship will be a
significant addition to their fleet.

In Nigeria, the Sassafras will cover 420 nautical miles, patrolling coastal
areas.

We will use it to patrol our oil fields to make sure there are no illegal
bunkering, Olutoyin said. There is also the possibility that we will use
it for logistic lifting, or providing medical supplies.

Since Sept. 30, the Nigerian navy has trained under the Sassafras crew,
whose ship has been sold to Nigeria, along with three other Coast Guard
cutters, for $857,000.

Lt. Cmdr. Matt Meilstrup, commanding officer of the Sassafras, said that the
Nigerian crew must learn how to use the Sassafras navigation and
engineering equipment. Progress has on or ahead of schedule, although he
said some of the equipment is unfamiliar to the trainees.

For example, they had no idea what a thermal imager is, said commanding
officer Meilstrup. Its to show where fires are. In essence, were showing
them how to utilize and operate the ship.

Cultural relations

The two crews aboard the Sassafras continue to learn new things about the
60-year-old cutter and each other.

Jarnac said that his crew is learning as much as the Nigerian crew, in terms
of cultural relations.

We have here what you might call a huge cultural infusion, where we learn
about their practices and they to ours, Jarnac said. By training them, we
also have to re-evaluate how we operate as we teach. Its been a learning
experience.

Jarnac said that Sassafras crew members also have been taught soccer, which
they play every Wednesday.

And theyre a lot better than us, Meilstrup added.

Olutoyin said that he appreciates the Sassafras crews willingness to go out
of their way to train his people, and enjoys the interaction they have when
they play soccer.

I view the relationship between United States and Nigeria as a good thing,
Olutoyin said. We are looking forward to getting more ships, all of which
will be a great help to our policing duties back home.

Lt. Paul Garcia, manager of foreign military sales for Coast Guard
International Affairs, said that the payment for the four ships will support
the training and transfer of the ships, saving American taxpayers millions
of dollars.

Scrapping the vessel would require a cleaning crew to come in and make sure
there are no hazardous materials, which would be costly, Garcia said.
Selling the ships saves the taxpayers money and the Nigerian navy receives
new vessels.

The Sassafras will be the 109th vessel transferred utilizing the Coast
Guards Foreign International Affairs, which started in 1995.

TO THE POINT

s The Coast Guard cutter Sassafras will be transferred to the navy of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria Oct. 31. The cutter Sequoia will replace the
Sassafras and will arrive next August.

ON THE NET

s For more information on the U.S. Coast Guard, visit www.uscg.mil.

Gobal News Wire - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire
Copyright 2003 BBC Monitoring/BBC
BBC Monitoring International Reports

October 6, 2003

UKRAINE TO SUPPLY EQUIPMENT FOR RUSSIAN-BUILT HOVERCRAFT

Kiev, 6 October: By the end of this year, the Mykolayiv-based
Zorya-Mashproekt state-owned gas turbine plant will supply energy equipment
for another Zubr landing hovercraft being built in Russia for the Greek navy.

Interfax-Ukraine has learnt from informed sources in the
military-industrial complex that the supplies of power equipment will be
carried out under a subcontract which was signed with the St
Petersburg-based Almaz shipbuilding company this year.

The Zubr high-speed hovercraft is capable of transporting 150 tonnes of
cargo, including up to three medium-sized tanks and a landing party of 500
troops. The ship can move at a speed of more than 60 knots, or about 120
kph, on land, water and ice and can negotiate such obstacles as a
1.5-metre-tall vertical wall. The hovercraft is equipped with five gas
turbines.

In January 2000, Greece bought two Zubr landing hovercraft worth a total of
about 200m dollars from Ukraine. Such craft are produced in Ukraine by the
Feodosiya-based More shipbuilding company. The value of the contract with
Ukraine was approximately 97m dollars, while Russia received about 101m
dollars.

The hovercraft under construction is planned to be handed over to the
customer in 2004.

（中央社記者鄒明智巴黎二十二日專電）巴黎法院前預審法官容皮爾（Thierry Jean-Pierre）經過數年調查法國出售拉法葉艦弊案，將調查結果彙集成「台灣連線」（Taiwan Connection）一書預定日內出版，公開向法國前任及現任財經部長挑戰，指售艦機密一日不解，法國將因此醜聞而永遠蒙羞。

巴黎人報今天率先報導容皮爾出書剖析轟動全球的軍售醜聞部分內容。報導開門見山就點出「五十億法郎（七億五千萬歐元）晦暗不明佣金，八人無故死亡，司法調查涉及五個國家，以及法國式的國防機密」。作者出書公開向前財經部長費比亞斯及現任部長梅爾挑戰，因為這兩位部長不僅將軍事機密列為國防機密，同時也以同樣理由不公開售艦有關的金錢往來紀錄文件。

該報引述容皮爾在書中的感嘆，因為法國前後任財經部長此舉使司法調查售艦佣金回流弊案完全觸礁。目前為執業律師且又擔任歐洲議員的容皮爾指出，在台灣外海洶湧浪濤揮發的五十億法郎中，有一部分回流到法國政黨的金庫中。他甚至透露，有人告訴他這大筆佣金也有部分流到美國共和黨的錢庫，可能成了布希競選總統的經費。

他在全名為「台灣連線，法蘭西共和國核心醜聞及謀殺案」的書中，也提到在調查過程中，他獲得的消息甚至包括一九九五年法國總統大選主要候選人的競選經費，也因受佣金現鈔之惠而更為充裕。但書中並未提到任何可以佐證的證據，不過這位前預審法官聲稱，不論這些傳言是否屬實，唯一可能澄清的是政府解除「喝采行動」售艦案非軍事部分的國防機密，讓司法當局得以全力調查。

容皮爾的調查在法國是依調查拉法葉艦弊案的范倫貝克的路線，在台灣則獲拉艦特別調查委員會的合作，其調查起點很簡單，就是湯姆笙出售六艘拉法葉級巡防艦給台灣，雙方在交易契約上白紙黑字寫明絕不能支付佣金。

但是計有三條網絡接觸到「齒輪潤滑油」，第一條是台灣軍火商汪傳浦路線，第二條劉麗麗的中國路線，第三條法國路線就是億而富石油集團的經理錫爾文及向前外長杜馬獻殷勤的情婦鍾顧夫人。他說，調查結果已揭曉佣金分配這三條路線的款項，可是卻不知這些錢的去向。

容皮爾說，范倫貝克法官目前調查遇到了瓶頸，為無法揪出佣金受惠人而大傷腦筋，恐怕最後因無法突破而被迫結案。他進一步指出，一波未平他波可能又起，因為另一項醜聞正在成形，台灣控告湯姆笙賠償六億美元，依情況看，法國可能在二○○六年被判決賠償台灣。

(中央社記者郭芳贄曼谷二十八日專電)印度海軍總司令辛格將軍透露，印度計劃建構三艘航空母艦外加兩百艘戰艦的龐大艦隊，以便成為擁有強大海軍軍力的國家。

這位印度海軍最高負責人在首都新德里主持海軍司令年會開幕時，未披露完成這項建軍計劃的時間表，不過證實已經開始著手這項成為海上強權的計劃。

泰國新聞信社報導，依照印度官方資料，目前印度擁有一百四十艘戰艦，海軍造船廠每年打造兩至三艘戰艦。

（法新社河內三十一日電） 越戰結束將近三十年後，美國一艘戰艦可望在十一月中旬訪問胡志明市（前南越首府西貢）。美國大使館一名官員表示，美國一艘海軍戰艦下月中旬可能訪問胡志明市的計劃已經成形。他拒絕透露這艘戰艦的名稱、抵達的確切日期，以及停留時間。

越南國防部長范文茶昨天告訴國營媒體，他將在十一月八日至十二日前往美國進行一項歷史性訪問。

分析家指出，范文茶的華府之行將顯示越南保守派軍方對前敵人美國政策的重大改變。范文茶如果成行，將是越南歷來首位訪問美國的最高軍事官員。

范文茶此行是報聘兩千年三月當時的美國國防部長柯恩訪問越南三天。

柯恩是一九七五年四月三十日西貢淪陷、越戰結束以來，首位訪問越南的美國國防部長。越戰造成五萬八千名美軍和約三百萬越南人喪生。

范文茶接受「越南網」訪問時說：「我訪問美國主要將與美國國家安全顧問萊斯、國務卿鮑爾和國防部長倫斯斐會談。」

他說，會談的議題將包括失蹤美軍，以及美軍在越戰期間噴洒橙色落葉劑問題。

一九九五年，美國與越南恢復正式外交關係，在此之前一年，前美國總統柯林頓解除對越南的貿易禁運。

二００一年十二月生效的一項雙邊貿易協定，導致雙邊貿易額遽升，但兩國政治關係並不熱絡。