Nazis, spies, the cold war and the arms trade: The story of how a decorated ex-Nazi officer and arms dealer sold fighter aircraft to India and Pakistan, both under an arms embargo after the 1965 war.
Tag: Suez Canal
UK navy chief concerned about Egypt’s Suez Canal
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•“It (Suez Canal) is a really significant issue. We as military men and anybody worth their salt should be talking about it. It is a serious issue. I can see doomsday scenarios,” Admiral Stanhope, who is on a five-day visit to India, told a group of Indian journalists here.
Navy scratching its head over pirates’ fate
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•While the Indian Navy has every right to arrest pirates anywhere on the high seas, the problem of what to do with them is one that many countries have been struggling with since the upsurge in piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
Sailor says shipping cos endangering crew to cut costs
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•Reports of piracy are suppressed because shipping companies would not like this route to be perceived to be too dangerous as this would drive up their insurance costs and force them to either go around the Cape of Good Hope or cross the Pacific Ocean as well as cause them problems in recruiting crews and shipping companies put their own ships at risk by refusing to be escorted by international naval ships in convoys because of additional costs and delays.
Merchant ship was almost captured by pirates because of Defense Ministry bureaucrats
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•There was utter confusion at the Ministry of Defense with no one willing to take responsibilty for a decision on the situation leaving the Navy exasperated and furious.