Latest airliner loss for Malaysia: AirAsia flight QZ8501

Plenty of weather to go around on this one.

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China deploys submarine to Gulf of Aden

Chinese Song-class (Type 039) submarine. (Image via ChineseDefence.com)

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Maldives sighting: A piece of the MH370 puzzle?

 

Kuda Huvadhoo, Dhaalu Atoll, Maldives. If you’re going to be startled by a low-flying jumbo jet, it might as well be here.

Interestingly, the sighting of an unidentified jumbo jet in the Maldives on 8 March, just after 6:00 AM, doesn’t conflict with any other known information about the missing Malaysian Air 777.

So that’s a point worth considering.  Before going further, I should mention that I don’t think the aircraft stopped

Asian mysteries: MH370 and the Iranian naval flotilla

 

Conundrum.

We appear to have ourselves a bona fide mystery.  If anyone in authority knows what happened to the Malaysian Air 777 that took off on 8 March headed for China, he’s not talking.  The most recent revelations, as readers no doubt know, suggest that the plane continued flying for about 7 hours after the last official contact from the cockpit.

The UK Mirror produced a graphic depicting the 634 airfields where

Iranian navy takes another big step outward

A couple of years ago, the Iranian navy announced it had deployed a submarine to the Red Sea as part of its patrol force there.  We can’t be sure (from out here in Unclassified World) how many times submarines have deployed to the Red Sea since.  It’s probably not many; Iran does better now with her Russian-built, Kilo-class submarines than she used to, in terms of keeping them ready and deployable, but her performance still wouldn’t be called great.

It’s good enough, however, to back up last week’s announcement that the Kilo-class submarine Younus (also spelled Younes and Yunes in transliteration) was heading for a deployment around the Indian Ocean,