Germany's new warship postponed yet again

This is a US Navy warship.

Then we'll build it as a warship.

She is a Spanish warship of 60 guns, the Natividad.

You have been openly assisting a belligerent warship in Uruguayan territorial waters.

You might have fallen afoul of our warship Natividad before I could bring you the wonderful news.

According to the neutrality law a merchant ship must be given 24 hours' notice or 24 hours' grace before an enemy warship can sail after her.

If a given public work or special warship entails such complex and incomprehensible details that only a few individuals can understand the whole project, transparency is effectively lacking.

Little was known about the reasons behind the return, but German media cited a number of crucial software and hardware defects that made the warship useless if deployed on a combat mission.

(d) Vessel shall mean any type of water craft, including non displacement craft and seaplanes, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, except a warship, naval auxiliary or other vessel owned or operated by a Government and used, for the time being, only on government non commercial service.

In fact, the reinterpretation amounts to little more than a tweak Japanese forces can now shield an American warship defending Japan, but they remain prohibited from initiating offensive attacks or participating in multilateral military operations. Given that the United Nations charter recognizes individual and collective self defense as an inherent right of sovereign countries, the change should be uncontroversial.

Given the Kremlin s ambiguous behavior if not its deliberate policy of deceit it seems obvious that France should not deliver a Mistral class assault warship, which it previously agreed to sell to Russia. It is far better for France to be perceived as an unreliable arms dealer than as an irresponsible strategic actor, caring only about its mercantile interests.

Moreover, China dispatched a warship and four military aircraft to the Mediterranean to help evacuate 35,860 Chinese nationals and 2,100 others from Libya. That measure, the first projection of Chinese naval power so far from home, is consistent with Confucianism, which regards morality as the top priority of policymaking, rather than Marxism, according to which economic interests alone drive foreign policy.

However, it is a warship designed at the beginning of the 21st century after all. Armaments aside, its propulsion system and electronic radar system lag significantly behind the current mainstream frigates in the world. Considering that similar frigates in Europe have been equipped with full electric propulsion, small multi function phased array radars and large helicopter decks, it is time to develop new models.

SEOUL After a painstaking investigation, South Korea is pointing the finger of blame at North Korea for the sinking of its warship, the Cheonan, on March 26. The debate about how to respond is complicated by the fact that the Cheonan s sinking does not seem to be a stand alone event, but was, instead, part of a change in North Korea s general pattern of behavior.

In 2010, the South Korean public was sharply critical of the military s failure to retaliate immediately following the North s sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship carrying more than 100 personnel, and its shelling of Yeonpyeong Island later that year. After the recent landmine blasts, by contrast, President Park Geun hye would not back down from her demands that the North, which denied planting the mines, apologize.

On November 23, its army fired nearly 200 artillery rounds onto the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, near the two countries disputed maritime border, killing four including two civilians and demolishing scores of houses and other structures. The presence of civilians, many of whom had to be evacuated, made North Korea s attack even more provocative than its sinking in March of the South Korean warship Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors.