Defense, Police, Prisons, Weapons etc. 02 (Mar 17 - Dec 25)

[winston]

Trump’s Defense Spending Plans Make these ETFs Buys Again

A rising defense budget will lift these ETF plays higher

Source: Zacks Investment Research

http://investorplace.com/2017/03/trumps ... MBj4vl96M8

[winston]

Can China's powerful new navy behemoth outclass America's warships?

The People's Liberation Army Navy is developing Asia's largest warship in the form of the Type 055 destroyer. The vessel, China's latest symbol of renewed military prowess, could launch as early as next year

Source: SCMP

http://www.scmp.com/infographics/articl ... ss-its-own

[winston]

Aircraft carriers, championed by Trump, are vulnerable to attack

By Scot Paltrow

Last week, President Donald J. Trump chose the deck of the newest U.S. aircraft carrier, the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford, for a speech extolling his planned boost in military spending.

Trump vowed to expand the number of carriers the United States fields from 10 to 12.

And he promised to bring down the cost of building three “super-carriers,” which has ballooned by a third over the last decade from $27 to $36 billion.

The Gerald R. Ford alone is $2.5 billion over budget and three years behind schedule, military officials say.

The second Ford-class carrier, the John F. Kennedy, is running five years late.

All told, since the early 1980s, U.S. and British carriers have been sunk at least 14 times in so-called “free play” war games meant to simulate real battle, according to think tanks, foreign navies and press accounts. Th

The U.S. fleet of 10 active carriers is 10 times as big as those deployed by its primary military rivals, Russia and China, who field one active carrier each.

Trump has said he will make good on his campaign promise to increase the Navy's fleet to 350 ships.

The Navy currently has 277 deployable ships. The cost of a single new, Ford-class carrier – $10.5 billion without cost overruns – would consume nearly 20 percent of Trump’s proposed $54 billion increase in next year's defense budget.

In order to be relatively safe, a carrier would have to stand off by 1,300 nautical miles, or 2,300 kilometers – out of range of the Dong Feng missiles.

And the F-18s have a range of only 400 nautical miles (equal to 460 statute miles or 740 kilometers) to a target with enough fuel to return.

The F-18s are to be replaced by 2020 with new F-35C Lightning IIs, but these have only a marginally better range of 650 nautical miles.

Each carrier usually has an escort of at least five warships, a mixture of destroyers and cruisers, at least one submarine and a combined ammunition-supply ship and helicopters designed to detect subs.

When close enough to shore, carriers are also protected by new, land-based P-8 Poseidon jets, designed to detect and destroy subs.

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-t ... News%20Now

[winston]

Global Leaders Rattle Their Sabers As The World Marches Toward War

By Michael Snyder

Source: The Economic Collapse Blog

http://www.thetradingreport.com/2017/03 ... oward-war/

[winston]

These 3 Defense Stocks Are Near Buy Points Ahead Of Trump Budget

by BILL PETERS

Source: Investor's Business Daily

http://www.investors.com/news/ahead-of- ... yptr=yahoo

[winston]

China readying countermeasures against missile defence shield in South Korea, retired PLA general says

The military will deploy its own system before Seoul sets up the American one, Wang Hongguang says

Yue said an ideal place to install the Chinese equipment was on the Shandong peninsula on the country’s east coast, opposite South Korea.

Fu Qianshao, an aviation equipment expert with the PLA Air Force, said China could also send planes – manned or unmanned – to fly close to THAAD to interfere with its radar signals. All the country’s armed forces had the capacity to interfere with radar signals, Fu said.

Source: SCMP

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomac ... le-defence

[winston]

This troubled, covert agency is responsible for trucking nuclear bombs across America each day

Source: LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nuc ... tory.html#

[winston]

President Trump says he wants to build dozens of new warships in one of the biggest peace-time expansions of the U.S. Navy.

But the initiative would cost nearly $700 billion in government funding, take 30 years to complete and require hiring tens of thousands of skilled shipyard workers - many of whom don't exist yet because they still need to be hired and trained.

Source: Reuters

[winston]

UBS Says Defense Growing Much Faster Than Expected: 4 Top Picks to Buy Now

By Lee Jackson

Source: 24/7 Wall Street

http://247wallst.com/aerospace-defense/ ... Newsletter

[winston]

3 ‘War Stocks’ to Buy After Trump’s Syria Strike

The surprise attack on Assad's forces initially spooked Wall Street

By Anthony Mirhaydari

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2017/04/3-war- ... OhGFNJ96M8