– Defense News – Courtesy of BAE Systems, some Virginia-class submarines will be able to pack a bigger punch. The U.S. Navy has granted a contract to British company to produce payload tubes for two of the service’s Block V Virginia-class subs. Each will be extended in length with an additional mid-body section to create additional room for payloads and, in turn, for greater firepower.
Monthly Archives: June 2018
On the water and in the air, French military pushes back against Beijing’s South China Sea claims
– South China Morning Post – France has sent warships through contested waters and will hold air exercises in the area later this year.
Russia-China Naval Cooperation in an Era of Great Power Competition
– CIMSEC – Great Power competition is back, and such competition brings Russia and China together as political partners, and is echoed in their increasing naval cooperation. Such naval cooperation provides one another with tacit support in their respective areas of geopolitical interest.
Crisis Response Marines in Middle East Focused on Operations in Syria, Afghanistan
– USNI News – The Marine Corps’ Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Crisis Response force in U.S. Central Command is becoming increasingly distributed across the Middle East as its role evolves, but it is gaining additional aircraft and a ship it can call upon to help support its vastly spread out operations.
Automated Valor
– USNI Proceedings – A work of fiction by August Cole on future armored combat.
How Mattis Can Help Reshape the Navy
– National Interest – Arrhythmic operating patterns will help the sea services wrest the initiative from prospective foes, knocking them off-balance to American advantage.
Carriers Aren’t The Only Big Targets: The Challenges of Mobile Basing
– Breaking Defense – For years, we’ve heard about how vulnerable aircraft carriers are to enemy fire. They’re big. They’re not that fast — compared to a missile. But a big airbase isn’t exactly mobile. While it can be hardened, its location is well known.
What Secretive Anti-Ship Missile Did China Hack From The U.S. Navy?
– War Zone – Details surrounding the Navy’s Sea Dragon program remain scarce, but there are some distinct possibilities.
The US Navy’s fleet is getting old. It might get a lot older
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy is considering extending the service life of all its ships by at least seven years, and could stretch the life of some ships by 13 years.
Marines Won’t Need a Carrier for High-End Fight With MUX Unmanned System
– USNI News – The Marine Corps and Navy are preparing for a high-end fight that will require ships to be distributed across the ocean rather than clustered around an aircraft carrier, and the Marines’ future Group 5 unmanned aerial system will give them the airborne early warning capability to break free from the carrier and its E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning aircraft.
U.S., India, Japan Navies Start Malabar Exercise Tomorrow in Guam
– USNI News – The U.S. Navy is hosting naval forces from India and Japan in Guam for the annual Malabar Exercise, set to start Thursday in the Philippine Sea.
Israel Deploying to Eastern Europe, Pacific for First Time Alongside U.S. Forces
– Breaking Defense – The Trump Pentagon is undergoing a major shift to focus on great power competition. And it’s looking for allies to step up in places that might come as a surprise.
How to Spot the Secretive Activities of Rogue Fishing Boats
– BBC – For years it’s been impossible to see illegal acts happening at sea, from overfishing to human rights abuses. Now that’s changing.
Troubling U.S. Navy review finds widespread shortfalls in basic seamanship
– Defense News – A three-month internal review conducted by senior U.S. surface fleet leaders found that nearly 85 percent of its junior officers had either some or significant concerns in ship handling and that many struggled to react decisively to extricate their ship from danger when there was an immediate risk of collision, according to an internal message obtained by Defense News.
BALTOPS 2018 Continues Emphasis on Air-Sea Integration, Complex Free-Play Phase
– USNI News – The annual Baltic Operations exercise is underway for the 46th time, continuing last year’s priorities of increasing the integration of aircraft and ships and boosting the difficulty of the free-play phase that concludes the exercise.
Marines Forward-Deploy Portable Drone-Killing System
– USNI News – Forward-deployed Marines are using a new system to protect U.S. troops from the threat of cheap and lethal unmanned aerial vehicles.
Marine Corps Wants Forces in U.S. Ready to Surge for Major War
– USNI News – The Marine Corps wants to focus its continental U.S.-based forces training for a high-end large-scale war, in case a conflict on the Korean Peninsula or elsewhere requires a massive surge force.
At delicate moment, U.S. weighs warship passage through Taiwan Strait
– Reuters – The United States is considering sending a warship through the Taiwan Strait, U.S. officials say, in a move that could provoke a sharp reaction from Beijing at a time when Sino-U.S. ties are under pressure from trade disputes and the North Korean nuclear crisis.
France, Britain to sail warships in contested South China Sea to challenge Beijing
– South China Morning Post – Defence ministers tell security forum they are contributing to rule-based order.
Why A ‘Human In The Loop’ Can’t Control AI: Richard Danzig
– Breaking Defense – How do you stop a Terminator scenario before it starts? Real US robots won’t take over like the fictional SkyNet, Pentagon officials promise, because a human being will always be “in the loop,” possessing the final say on whether or not to use lethal force. But by the time the decision comes before that human operator, it’s probably too late, warns Richard Danzig. In a new report, the respected ex-Navy Secretary argues that we need to design in safeguards from the start.
U.S. Special Operations Command’s Elusive Mothership Is Packing Stealth Speedboats
– War Zone – We finally have high-quality images of the entire ship in its completed state.
10 Naval Infantry Units from Around the World
– USNI Blog – The United States Marine Corps is a well known and respected combat force, but the United States is not the only country to employ troops of this type.
Russia has plans for its future nuclear subs, and it involves hypersonic missiles
– Defense News – Russia’s next generation of multipurpose nuclear submarines, reportedly known as the Husky class, will be armed with hypersonic missiles, with the lead boat slated for launch in 2027
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