Navy's Use of Sonar Is Severely Limited
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A federal judge yesterday severely limited the Navy's ability to use mid-frequency sonar on a training range off the Southern California coast, ruling that the loud sounds would harm whales and other marine mammals if not tightly controlled.
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Despite president's decision granting exemption, Navy must follow sonar laws, federal judge rules.
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A federal judge ordered the Navy on Thursday to adopt measures that would lessen the impact of sonar on whales and other marine life during exercises near Southern California.
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Ruling bloc and opposition lawmakers Thursday criticized the government&#39;s slow response to a mystery submarine that intruded into Japan&#39;s territorial waters the previous day.
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The White House yesterday sought to overrule a federal court's decision limiting the Navy's use of sonar in training exercises, exempting the service from complying with two major environmental laws.
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A failed effort to soften the noise from British military helicopters led to a breakthrough enabling surfaces from mobile telephone screens to car roof liners to be turned into stereo speakers.
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A federal judge has ordered the Navy to adopt stringent new safeguards intended to improve protection of whales and dolphins during its sonar training exercises off Southern California.
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The Navy has a monkey on its back. Since at least 1982, U.S. Navy ships plying the Persian Gulf have been taunted by mysterious radio transmissions that are alternately obscene, nonsensical, racist, infantile, misogynistic and menacing. Sometimes they threatened U.S. ships; at other times they...
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The U.S. military's reserves and National Guard forces are not prepared to meet catastrophic threats at home and face an "appalling" shortage of forces able to respond to chemical, biological or nuclear strikes on U.S. soil, according to a congressional commission report released today.
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Britain's military is at the limit of its capacity and can barely cope with the demands placed on it, the head of Britain's army said in an interview.
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A laser designed for military use is close to hitting a power threshold thought necessary to turn it into a battlefield weapon.
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A federal appeals court decided Wednesday that marine mammals have no standing to sue to stop the U.S. Navy from using sonar.
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US Navy came close to firing on 'attack craft' over weekend, CNN reports
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The Coast Guard lacks the resources to adequately protect tankers carrying liquefied petroleum or crude oil from a possible terrorist attack, congressional auditors reported Wednesday.
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The  crescendo of noise in the oceans is interfering with marine mammal communication, campaigners say.
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One misstep on this former U.S. Navy bombing range can be fatal.
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After six years and $3.7 billion, the system doesn't provide the U.S. Navy with information superiority or foster innovation, according to the Government Accountability Office.