The Space Review – Russia’s Glonass satellites do more than provide navigation services including performing naval signals intelligence.
Author Archives: Naval Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
A third of New Zealand’s Navy ships are docked over lack of crew
Defense News – Three of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s nine ships are now docked at the Devonport naval base indefinitely, due to insufficient personnel.
Canada’s Recent Naval Deployments and Power Projection Across the Pacific and Beyond
CIMSEC – Canada has been conducting annual Pacific deployments of strategic import, including Westploy in 2016, Operation Poseidon Cutlass in 2017, and Operation Projection since 2018. These deployments highlight increasing Canadian naval presence and naval exercising with other China-concerned partners in the region. The particularly successful Operation Projection of 2022 has complemented Canada’s recently-released Indo-Pacific Strategy and its maritime provisions for the future.
Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance and Control due to achieve Initial Operating Capability in 2023
Navy Lookout – The Merlin helicopters equipped with the Crowsnest ASaC role kit provide are a critical aspect of the carrier strike programme. In this article, we look at how the troubled Crowsnest development project and efforts to bring the system into frontline service have progressed in the last year or so.
Thailand warship capsizes leaving 31 sailors missing
BBC – The Thai navy says 31 sailors are missing after a warship carrying more than 100 crew capsized and sank during a storm in the Gulf of Thailand.
Bulldogs Away
CIMSEC – A FICINT short story.
NATO’s Maritime Vigilance: Optimiziing the Standing Naval Force For the Future
War on the Rocks – NATO still maintains standing naval forces, units that are directly under the bloc’s day-to-day operational command. Yet even in this time of high tension, very few combatants are attached to the alliance’s two major standing naval groups.
Exit Music
CIMSEC – A FICINT short story.
Submarine “Riachuelo” reinforces Brazil’s sovereignty in the Blue Amazon
ElSnorkel – The “Riachuelo” is the first of a class of four conventional submarines with diesel-electric propulsion, which will allow greater deterrent power in the 5.7 million km2 of the Blue Amazon, whose rich waters, seabed and subsoil are important for economic, scientific and environmental development. It is in this maritime area where Brazilians carry out fishing activities, where 95% of Brazilian foreign trade passes and where biological and mineral resources are exploited.
(Thanks to Alain)
This Is Australia’s New ‘Ghost Shark’ Unmanned Combat Submarine
War Zone – The Ghost Shark unmanned underwater vehicle will eventually be the size of a school bus and offer both surveillance and attack capabilities.
South Korean SLBM Tests: An Arms Race Heating Up?
Wavell Room – South Korea’s possession and development of ballistic missile capabilities has historically been something rarely featured in mainstream discussions and military profiles of the country. This is owing more towards South Korea’s desire to keep its missile capability and related developments as secretive as possible due to geopolitical sensitivities, than general disinterest in the subject both domestically or in international military circles. It is an undeniable fact however, that given North Korea’s ongoing pursuit of developing nuclear weapons and the relevant ballistic missile capabilities to launch them, South Korea would have to make commensurate investments into similar capabilities for its own national security interests and overall survival.
Russia’s Largest Floating Dock Arrives at Place of Deployment
SeaNews – December 8 the port of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East saw the arrival of PD-100, the largest floating dock in Russia and one of the largest of the kind in the world.
(Thanks to Alain)
Splash Twelve
CIMSEC – A FICINT short story.
PLA Navy Identification Guide (2022)
US Navy Office of Naval Intelligence – The 2022-2023 Recognition and Identification Guide
B-1B Bomber’s New Ultra Long-Range Focus Hints At Future B-21 Ops
War Zone – The U.S. Air Force’s B-1 bomber community has become primarily focused on executing very long-range land-attack and anti-ship strike missions utilizing stand-off cruise missiles as the supersonic swing-wing jets steadily enter the twilight of their careers.
Russia tests Il-80VKP submarine communication system
Scramble – Russia’s ‘Doomsday’ plane, the Ilyushin Il-80VKP (Il-86VzPU), NATO code Maxdome, is the airborne command post of the Russian President in the event of a nuclear attack, also called the Flying Kremlin. Recently, the Il-80VKP has been tested with an updated system which maintains regular communication with submerged nuclear submarines. For such a task, the aircraft has been updated with a new ultra-long wave communication complex which can set up a connection with an extended submersible communication antenna towed by the submarine.
(Thanks to Alain)
Kraken
CIMSEC – A FICINT short story.
In focus: delivering the Type 26 Frigates
Navy Lookout – A multi-billion pound project to build 8 warships for the Royal Navy is now well underway on the Clyde. Here we look at the Type 26 frigate project in context, its progress to date and the likely future delivery schedule.
Expeditionary Logistics
CIMSEC – A FICINT short story.
Cyber Power is a Key Element of Sea Power
USNI Proceedings – Rebuilding American sea power will require the skillful use of cyber power to prepare the battlespace, fight, and win.
Russia’s Militarization of the Kuril Islands
CSIS – Overshadowed by the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s recent and rapid militarization of a group of islands claimed by Japan has flown largely under the radar. Taken by Russia at the end of World War Two, Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan, and the Habomai islands of the Kuril Island chain, which Japan claims as its “Northern Territories,” have complicated relations between the two states for decades.
Thunder in the Lightless Sea
CIMSEC – A FICINT short story.
Uncrewed Drones in Naval Warfare: A Force Multiplier?
Wavell Room – In recent years the idea of leveraging on uncrewed drone technologies for use in naval warfare has been increasing in credibility and varieties. This is in no small part due to the proliferation of such drone technologies driving down costs, as well as maturing technology components and platforms allowing for greater reliability and stability for such platforms.
Valiance
CIMSEC – A FICINT short story.
Marine Commandant Will Have More Say in Crafting Navy’s Amphibious Force as Part of New Defense Bill
USNI News – The commandant of the Marine Corps will have a direct say in both the requirements for the Navy’s amphibious ships and the force structure, according to provisions in the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.
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