DF-16 Missile + CN Aircraft Carrier 16

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(1) Looking At The DF-16. Strategy Page, Sept 16, 2012
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htart/articles/20120916.aspx
("In early September China finally released photos of its new DF-16 ballistic missile. This is more than a year after Taiwanese intelligence revealed that the DF-16 existed and five months after commercial satellite images of the DF-16 were spotted. These satellite images confirmed that The DF-16 did indeed exist. Last year the Taiwanese claimed that China had deployed a new ballistic missile, the DF (Dongfeng) 16 and that some of them were aimed at Taiwan. The DF-16 had never been mentioned publically before that")

(2) Is This The End Of Sejong?  Strategy Page, Sept 15, 2012
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsurf/articles/20120915.aspx
("South Korea recently put another 'Sejong The Great' class destroyer into service after nine months of sea trials. This is the third, and possibly last, of these Aegis equipped warships. The first one entered service four years ago. These ships are also called KDX-III (Korean Destroyer Experimental) class guided missile destroyers and were designed to operate far from South Korea. This was part of a plan to give South Korea an international (or at least regional) naval capability. That plan changed two years ago after North Korea sank a South Korean corvette with a torpedo and shelled a South Korean island off the west coast. Now South Korea is scrambling to build more coast protection vessels and enhance anti-submarine capabilities")

(3) Vietnamese Kilo Hits The Water. Strategy Page, Sept 15, 2012
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20120915.aspx
("Russia revealed that the first of these [six] Vietnamese Kilos was in the water and will undergo sea trials before the end of the year. * * * Considering the low price [$300 million each], it appears that the Vietnamese boats do not have AIP (Air Independent Propulsion)")

(4) The Bill For Independence Comes Due. Strategy Page, Sept 15, 2012
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20120915.aspx
("European NATO nations are determined not to be humiliated again by their inadequacies. NATO nations were again embarrassed last year when they found themselves depending on the United States for most of its air reconnaissance and aerial refueling needs over Libya. So last May NATO nations once more signed an agreement to overcome this dependence. This would be done by having European NATO members making their air recon and refueling aircraft available as part of a NATO air support pool")

(5) Hull Number 16 Replaces Shi Lang. Strategy Page, Sept 14, 2012
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htnavai/articles/20120914.aspx
("the ship was recently assigned a hull number (16, which was pretty obvious to all nearby as shipyard workers painted it on the hull) and given its official name: Liaoning. * * * named after the province in which it has spent the last five years being refurbished")