– USNI News – Manning forward-deployed ships with fewer sailors, making less carrier strike groups available to deploy and reducing the size of command staffs are moves the Navy is considering as part of its drive to reduce $40 billion from its budget, according to a February memo outlining the cuts under consideration.
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Where is the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command?
– CIMSEC – So, with all the calls for integration, where is the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC)? After all, the Marine Corps itself is a naval expeditionary force according to the Commandant.
Marines Ditch MUX Ship-Based Drone to Pursue Large Land-Based UAS, Smaller Shipboard Vehicle
– USNI News – The Marines have ditched their plan to field a very large drone on amphibious ships, instead breaking the four-year-old MUX program into a family of systems that will include a very large land-based unmanned aerial vehicle and a medium-sized one for shipboard operations.
Eagle vs Dragon: How the U.S. and Chinese Navies Stack Up
– National Defense – The United States has been the world’s leading maritime power for decades. However, the U.S. Navy could find itself in China’s wake if current trends continue, analysts say.
Evolving Mine Warfare
– USNI Blog – Redefining what a mine is, across the services, is an important step to ensure that the wealth of creativity and expertise in the technical and operational community are taken advantage of.
Video Shows Thrusters, Sauna, Other Features Of Russia’s Newest Ballistic Missile Submarine
– War Zone – The Borei-A class boats are said to be among the quietest in Russia’s fleet and they feature some amenities that are distinctly Russian.-
Amazing: The Navy’s New Undersea Sonar and Laser Can Quickly Find Enemy Mines
– National Interest – The growing modern mine threat is so significant, that the Navy has been fast-tracking a wide range of new countermine attack and defense strategies. The approach is focused on both littoral mine fields as well as higher-tech deep water mines associated with threats posed by great powers as well, according to senior service leaders.
(Thanks to Alain)
Don’t Buy Hype Out of the Military-Industrial Complex
– National Interest – As Richard Feynman might advise: make caveat emptor your motto when sizing up new concepts. If a hypothesis doesn’t undergo rigorous tests, and if it doesn’t perform well . . . it’s wrong.
Navy Kicks Off Study of Next-Generation Carriers, Naval Aviation
– USNI News – Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly is commissioning a six-month study on the future of the aircraft carrier and carrier-based aviation, the Navy announced today.
Sonar Equipped Drone Fleets Could be Key to Future Submarine Warfare
– USNI News – The future of anti-submarine warfare for countries who can’t afford to invest in top-of-the-line submarines and maritime patrol aircraft could be a netted fleet of unmanned platforms that can create “passive acoustic barriers” at chokepoints or drag towed arrays through a country’s territorial waters.
China Is Prepared to Reap the Strategic Rewards of Its Relationship With Russia
– National Interest – Moscow has transferred more than five hundred aircraft—large military transports, early warning aircraft, refueling aircraft, attack jets, and fighter interceptors—to Beijing since 1990.
Destroyers left behind: US Navy cancels plans to extend service lives of its workhorse DDGs
– Defense News – In a move with sweeping consequences for the US Navy’s battle force, the service is canceling plans to add 10 years to the expected service lives of their stalwart destroyer fleet, a cost-savings measure that would almost certainly hamper plans to grow the size of the fleet.
The Marine Corps Has A Strategy To Beat China: Island-Based Anti-Ship Missiles
– National Interest – Emplaced on islands dotting the Pacific Ocean, HIMARS and kindred missile launchers could give Chinese ships of war a very bad day.
The Navy’s Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers To Be Armed With Hypersonic Weapon Interceptors
– War Zone – The U.S. military is developing an interceptor intended to knock down hypersonic boost-glide vehicles specifically for deployment on U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyers equipped with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system.
The Number of Mines is Less Than Infinity
– CIMSEC – Mine countermeasures are actions intended to reduce the risk that mines pose to transiting vessels. Risk is defined as the probability that a transiting vessel will incur mission abort damage from a mine detonation if it travels along a predetermined route through the potentially mined area. The purpose of an MCM operation is to lower the risk so it is safer to transit. The estimation of risk is critically important to determine if the level of risk to a transiting vessel is acceptable and if the applied effort is effectively lowering the risk.
To combat the China threat, US Marine Corps declares ship-killing missile systems its top priority
– Defense News – The Marine Corps is all in on fielding mobile anti-ship missiles in the Pacific to challenge China’s growing Navy, declaring it in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s seapower subcommittee to be its highest ground modernization priority.
Navy, Marines Tell Congress Emphasis on Arctic is Growing
– USNI News – The Navy is evaluating with the Army and Air Force a strategy to beef up U.S. military presence and force protection in the Arctic.
Beyond The Ford: Navy Studies Next-Gen Carriers
– Breaking Defense – The Future Carrier 2030 Task Force, which the service will announce next week, will study how carriers stack up against new generations of stealthy submarines and long-range precision weapons being fielded by China and Russia.
Chinese naval fleet wraps up far sea exercise deep in Pacific Ocean
– Global Times – A far sea joint training fleet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy returned to base after sailing 14,000 nautical miles and crossing the International Date Line deep into the Pacific Ocean for the first time, a move that challenges US hegemony in the open waters and will become increasingly frequent in the future.
Vietnamese boats increasingly intruding into Chinese waters for espionage
– Global Times – Vietnamese fishing boats have been increasingly intruding into Chinese territorial waters near Hainan Island and Guangdong Province, both are home to many Chinese military bases.
China’s newly commissioned destroyer, frigate achieve battle readiness
– Global Times – Two recently commissioned warships of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy are now ready to do batte after passing an all-subject training examination, the Navy announced on Wednesday, as experts said the service has done well in its sailor training program while receiving more and more warships.
JMSDF Commissioned Its 1st Li-Ion Battery Submarine SS-511 JS Ōryū おうりゅう
– Naval News – The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned its 11th Soryu-class diesel-electric attack submarine (SSK) in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture on March 5, 2020. JS Ōryū (SS-511) joins the JMSDF’s Submarine Flotilla 1, based in Kure. It is the first-in-class boat to feature lithium-ion batteries.
Indian Navy P-8I MPA In Reunion Island For Combined Training With French Forces
– Naval News – An Indian Navy P-8I Neptune Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) visited Reunion Island to train with the French Air Force and Navy based on the island, known as “FAZSOI”.
Ignorance of China is Not Bliss
– CIMSEC – China is modernizing every element of its military…With this new capability, China constantly intimidates its neighbors through its increasingly aggressive maritime behavior.
Air Force Boss Alludes To Work On New Top Secret Air-Launched Anti-Ship Weapons
– War Zone – The US military sees the ability to reach out with airpower and take out enemy ships as increasingly critical to beating a major adversary.
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