Maritime Security & Defence №5 2021

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MARITIME POLICY, STRATEGY & FORCES
7 Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Surprise
Dr. Peter Layton
13 Sweden's Navy:
Cooperation in the Geo-Strategic Continuum from the Arctic to the Baltic to the Black Sea
Interview with Rear Admiral Ewa Skoog Haslum,
Sweden’s Chief of Navy
17 South America – A Unique Naval Market: An Overview
Guy Toremans
SHIP DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGIES
22 Evolving the FREMM
The US Navy’s CONSTELLATION (FFG-62) Class
Sidney E. Dean
27 Developments in the Global Sonar Market
Bob Nugent
30 Major Surface Combatant
Procurement: Status Report
Conrad Waters
36 Warship Habitability Today
Bruno Huriet
MARITIME INDUSTRY
42 Cruise Lines after the Pandemic:Rising from the Shutdown
Franz Neumeier
MARITIME OPERATIONS & DOCTRINE
46 Opinion: Three Global Flashpoints of Area Denial
Tim Guest
50 NATO’s Maritime Centres of Excellence
Edward Lundquist
53 600 Blue Dots
Why NATO should adopt Multi-Domain Operations
Andreas Uhl
56 Lessons Learned – Collision Avoidance
Guy Toremans