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March 1985 issue of International

Defense Review: The combination of increasing commitments and probable retirement of a number of now-active surface combatants "leaves very large requirements for new destroyers, to support the Aegis cruisers and to protect underway replenishment groups and amphi- bious groups, all of which might well be exposed to intense air attack.

Earlier Navy studies indicated there would be a requirement for "up to 63 missile-armed destroyers. . . .

Note that by the late nineties it will be necessary to replace, in addition, the large number of ASW escorts built during the sixties. The replace- ment is now generally designated the FFX, but it might conceivably use the Burke's hull." • Finally, it would be difficult if not impossible to overstate the

Navy's need—both present and fu- ture—for a new destroyer of the

Burke's capabilities. In that con- text, an assessment made many years ago by Fleet Admiral Ches- ter W. Nimitz—and repeated in the October 1984 issue of Sea Power

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Magazine, in a DDG-51 article by

Vincent C. Thomas—seems as relevant today as when it was first uttered: "Of all the tools the Navy will employ to control the seas in any future war, the most useful of the small types of combatant ships, the destroyer, will be there. Its ap- pearance may be altered, and it may even be called by some other name, but no type—not even the carrier or the submarine—has such an assured place in future navies."

Equador Will Host 9th

Panamerican Congress

On Naval Engineering

The Panamerican Institute of

Naval Engineering (IPEN) has an- nounced that the 9th Panamerican

Congress on Naval Engineering,

Maritime Transportation and Port

Engineering (COPINAVAL) will be held in Guayaquil, Equador, July 14-18 this year. The site will lie the

Uni Hotel located in downtown

Guayaquil. A concurrent exhibition of marine products and services will take place at the same location.

The Organizing Committee for IX

COPINAVAL is headed by Adm.

Guillermo Duenas Iturralde, president of IPEN. Others on the

Committee include: Tte. de Navio

Diego Mantilla Jaramillo, gen- eral coordinator; Eng. Roberto

Toledo and Eng. Cristobal Mar- iscal, protocol and social events;

Miguel Zea Laino, public rela- tions and press; and Eng. Gustavo

Frydson Caicedo, the exhibition.

Several post-congress tours have been planned by the Organizing

Committee at very attractive rates.

These include a four-day trip to the

Galapagos Islands; a three-day tour of Quito and surroundings; and a three-day visit to the city of Cuenca and surroundings.

For additional information on IX

COPINAVAL, contact Roberto

Toledo, P.O. 9138, Guayaquil,

Equador; telephone 025-296-5.

Dutch Drydock Purchased

By Norfolk Shipbuilding

Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock

Corp. (Norshipco) of Norfolk, Va., has purchased a used floating dry- dock from the Verolme Botlik Ship- yard in Rotterdam.

Built in 1960, the steel dock is in excellent condition and is expected to need no major repairs. It is 204 meters long (670 feet) by 39.29 me- ters wide (123 feet), and has a capacity for lifting vessels weighing up to 20,000 metric tons.

Heavylift oceangoing barges will carry the dock from Rotterdam to

Norfolk in two separate sections, with the first scheduled to arrive this month, and the second in mid-

July. The dock is expected to be operational by early fall.

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