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COMMENTARY SPECIAL

IF YOU WANT 'COLD WAR RELICS' LOOK NO FURTHER THAN ARMY TANKS & RAF TYPHOONS

Odin’s Eye – Our monthly editorial takes another penetrating look at bids by the RAF and British Army to destroy the Royal Navy

SPECIAL REPORT

TEN YEARS OF NAVAL ACTION

INTRODUCTION
By Iain Ballantyne, Editor Warships
IFR 1998 - Today

RELICS - A Typhoon air superiority fighter, a type of aircraft unlikely to bring the RAF the air-to-air kills that is has failed to obtain since the end of WW2. It is not capable of carrier operations and unlikely to deploy to Afghanistan. Photo: Dave Billinge. Also pictured: A Challenger 2 tank, of little use in counter-insurgency warfare. Photo: Iain Ballantyne.

Night operations on the flight-deck of the USS Enterprise become a ballet of lights as the aircraft carrier launches

SPECIAL SECTION

WAR ON TERROR UP-DATE
Autumn/Winter 2008/09

INDIAN NAVY FIGHTS MUMBAI SUICIDE SQUADS & HUNTS TERROR SHIP LAUNCHPAD

Indian Navy commandos in November fought floor by floor through luxury hotels, battling terrorists armed with AK-47 assault rifles, explosives and grenades, following a shocking attack from the sea on a number of targets in the city of Mumbai (Bombay).

NEWS EXTRA

TAURUS 2009 BEATS ROYAL NAVY OVERSTRETCH

With wars East of Suez sucking the cash out of the defence budget, and the Royal Navy spearheading the fight against the Taliban in sectors of southern Afghanistan, the British fleet has still, somehow, launched a milestone deployment.

An Indian Navy warships on exercise in the Indian Ocean off Mumbai with warships of the US Navy. India's naval forces did not detect terrorists using the same seasAn Indian Navy warships on exercise in the Indian Ocean off Mumbai with warships of the US Navy. India's naval forces did not detect terrorists using the same seas