USNI News – U.S. Pacific Air Forces is crafting a dual strategy of defensive capabilities and dispersal of forces in order to negate the threat posed to its forces and bases by China’s increasing military capabilities, the PACAF commander said.
Yearly Archives: 2021
Two Iranian Navy Ships Are About To Sail Into The Atlantic And That’s A Big Deal
War Zone – The two Iranian Navy ships appear headed for Venezuela, which, while a token gesture, could still have significant geopolitical ramifications.
US Navy creates DDG(X) program office after years of delays for large combatant replacement
Defense News – The U.S. Navy has created a new program office to usher the next class of destroyer into the fleet, after the service has struggled to find a replacement for its aging cruisers and destroyers over the past decade.
Close-Up Photo Shows China’s New Aircraft Carrier Rapidly Taking Shape
War Zone – Work is well underway on the next aircraft carrier due to join China’s fast-expanding navy. A leaked photo now brings us our closest view yet of the vessel, which is set to provide the People’s Liberation Army Navy, or PLAN, with a significant leap in capabilities, including catapults for launching aircraft, a major advantage over the service’s previous two, smaller aircraft carriers with their “ski jump” takeoff ramps.
Analysis: Hammerhead, Orca, SSGN
Strikepod Systems – With great power competition driving shifts in weapons priorities, offensive mine warfare, long neglected since World War II, is on the cusp of dramatic change both within the United States Navy, and within the navies of U.S. adversaries as well.
Pat Roll on Tactics of the Maritime Strategy and Cover and Deception Operations
CIMSEC – CIMSEC discussed the 1980s Maritime Strategy with Captain Pat Roll (ret.), who served as a staff tactician for Admirals Ace Lyons, Joe Metcalf, and Hank Mustin. In this conversation, Capt. Roll discusses how tactical development fleshed out the execution of the Maritime Strategy at sea, the Navy’s use of cover and deception operations to move battle groups undetected, and the core relationship between strategy and tactics.
Navy Picks Pacific Homeport For Future Frigates: Hello, China
Breaking Defense – The first 12 Constellation-class frigates will all be based out of Everett, Wash.
Loss of Iranian Navy Ship Mutes Tehran’s Global Ambitions, 3rd Warship Lost Since 2018
USNI News – The loss of Kharg, Iran’s only replenishment ship, created new challenges for the under-resourced Iranian Navy. The fleet oiler was an essential unit in Iranian ambitions to operate beyond the Middle East.
MEDUSA Is U.S. Navy’s Secret Minelaying Submarine
Forbes – The U.S. Navy wants offensive mine warfare capability, and it wants it fast. That’s the message from a new project called MEDUSA contained in the Navy’s latest budget release.
US, UK, French navies agree to bolster joint operations, tech collaboration
Defense News – The chiefs of the U.S., U.K. and French navies met in France on Thursday to affirm their commitment to deeper collaboration and interoperability between their fleets to address some of the most vexing maritime security issues around the globe.
Navy Not Ready to Repair Battle Damaged Ships
USNI News – The Navy is poorly positioned to fully repair its fighting fleet of warships damaged in future high-end battles, the Government Accountability Office found in a report released this week.
Close the Gaps! Airborne ASW Yesterday and Tomorrow
CIMSEC – A call to establish unmanned sea control squadron (VUS) squadrons. These squadrons would provide Sea Combat Commanders with a dedicated medium-range ASW aircraft that would allow commanders to detect, classify, track, target, and engage submarines outside their weapons engagement zone.
Not Even The Monarchy Wants This New Royal Yacht
War Zone – The last thing Britain seems to need right now is a Royal Yacht, a ship that could be as big of a security risk as it is a national symbol.
China’s advanced lightweight tank Type 15 enters PLA Navy Marine Corps service
Global Times – China’s independently developed, most advanced lightweight tank, the Type 15, has been commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Marine Corps.
Kharg fire: Large Iranian navy ship sinks in Gulf after blaze
BBC – A large Iranian navy ship has sunk after catching fire in the Gulf of Oman during a training mission.
16 Chinese Airlifters Made A Run Over The South China Sea At Malaysian Airspace
War Zone – The Royal Malaysian Air Force deemed the mission over the South China Sea a “threat to national sovereignty and aviation safety.”
Sudan says will review naval base agreement with Russia
TASS – Sudan will review its naval base agreement with Russia, because some of its provisions are harmful for the country’s interests.
The Navy’s Railgun Looks Like It’s Finally Facing The Axe In New Budget Request
War Zone – After some 16 years of research and development, the U.S. Navy appears poised to kill its electromagnetic railgun program. The service has not asked for any new funding for the project in its latest budget request and says it will wrap up all the work it has planned now by the end of the current fiscal year, before effectively putting what’s left of this effort into storage.
Iranian Warship Thought to be Headed to Venezuela Left Port with 7 High-Speed Missile Boats Aboard
USNI News – An Iranian Navy ship thought to be bound for Venezuela left its port in late April with seven high-speed missile-attack craft strapped to its deck.
From Orbit to Ocean—Fixing Southeast Asia’s Remote-Sensing Blind Spots
US Naval War College Review – Improving maritime domain awareness (MDA) in Southeast Asia is critical not only for regional states but for the national-security interests of the United States. MDA in the coming decades will be dominated by cheaper, more-efficient remote-sensing tools, and the United States and other outside parties should shift toward introducing partners to the booming private-sector offerings in remote sensing.
Stop Saying The U.S. Military Spends More Than China (It Might Not Matter)
1945 – James Holmes discusses the casual claim that because the United States spends more on defense than the next X countries combined—X usually being defined as ten or upwards—it is so crushingly superior that it need not spend more and could probably get away with spending less on the armed forces.
Indian Navy’s First Indigenous Aircraft Carrier Vikrant Catching Up To China
Naval News – The Chinese Navy is rapidly expanding its aircraft carrier fleet, with two in service and at least one more under construction. And while still new to the game, their experience of operating carriers is growing all the time. Regional rival India has a much longer tradition of carrier aviation, but fewer and smaller carriers. The first indigenous aircraft carrier, Vikrant, could keep India competitive however.
Check Out This Backpack-Mounted Signals Intelligence System Worn By A Marine Special Operator
War Zone – “Body-worn” signal snooping gear gives American special operators an additional way to spot and track enemy forces, and monitor their surroundings.
7th Fleet CO: Deployed LCS USS Gabrielle Giffords ‘Pretty Much Owned’ South China Sea
USNI News – The Navy is now pushing the Littoral Combat Ships out into the Pacific in force after more than a decade of stops and starts and studies.
Fleet Growth Stymied by Fiscal Year 2022 Navy Budget Request
USNI News – The long-delayed Navy Fiscal Year 2022 budget request submitted to Congress May 28 reflects modest increases in several areas, but overall shows no significant changes, either in weapons procurement or readiness accounts.
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