– Naval News – The U.S. Navy’s first MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have arrived in Guam for their initial deployment in the Pacific theater.
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To Be Most Ready When the Nation is Least Ready, The Marines Need a New Headquarters
– War on the Rocks – Setting the Marine Corps back on the right path first requires fixing the structural ways in which the service’s decisions are made and implemented within Headquarters Marine Corps. Without addressing the major imbalances that have led to the service “not [being] organized, trained, equipped, or postured to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving future operating environment,” future commandants will likely find themselves in the same predicaments again and again.
China likely to step up coastguard port calls as part of South China Sea soft power play
– South China Morning Post – Beijing is likely to send more coastguard vessels on port calls to try to take the rough edges off the service’s image as part of a militia fleet used to press territorial claims in the South China Sea
How China Is Practicing—and Perfecting—an Amphibious Invasion of Taiwan
– National Interest – It takes a lot of hard work.
China’s new killer robot ship goes through its first sea trial
– South China Morning Post – China’s new killer robot ship that can carry out anti-submarine and anti-ship missions has undergone its first sea trial.
Royal Saudi Navy Inducts First Batch Of CMN HSI 32 Interceptors
– Naval News – The Royal Saudi Navy officially inducted a first batch of two HSI Interceptor fast patrol crafts
Donald Trump must split up Putin and Xi, the new odd couple
– Niall Ferguson – Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret flight to Beijing, which set in motion the opening of relations between America and China. It was the pivotal moment of the Cold War, exploiting the Sino-Soviet split by effectively aligning Washington and Beijing against Moscow.
The ultimate goal of American strategy in the 2020s must be to achieve a mirror image of that manoeuvre, driving Putin and Xi apart and drawing Russia into that western configuration which alone can save declining Russia from being swallowed up by rising China.
Here’s how the DDG-1000′s stealthy hull design handles stormy seas
– Defense News – After years of stability questions about the hull design for the Navy’s new three-ship class of stealth destroyers, the commanding officer of the lead ship, USS Zumwalt, is satisfied: It handles the seas as well, if not better, than previous classes of surface combatants.
Textron’s Common USV Ready for Production, Experimenting with Lethal Surface Warfare Payloads
– USNI News – Even as Textron is awaiting a decision to move from development of its Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MCM USV) into production, the company also has its eye on using the vessel for missions such as surface warfare and amphibious operations.
India’s Defence Secretary Reviewed Progress On IAC INS Vikrant
– Naval News – The progress on the construction of the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-P71) project was reviewed by Indian Defence Secretary, Shri Ajay Kumar.
French Carrier Strike Group Begins ‘Foch’ Deployment
– Naval News – The French Navy (Marine Nationale) Carrier Strike Group set sail yesterday for a long operational deployment named “Foch”. Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle and its escort set course to the Eastern Mediterranean before sailing for the Northern Atlantic area.
U.S. and China Will Likely Go To War in the Next 30 Years: James Fanell
– Epoch Times – James Fanell, Former intelligence chief of the U.S. pacific fleet challenges the conventional wisdom that the U.S. military is unsurpassed by any force on this planet. While acknowledging that the Chinese military has strategic vulnerabilities, he warns that the U.S. might go to war with China over Taiwan in the next 30 years not adequately prepared and not confident to win.
DARPA’s latest mad science experiment: A ship designed to operate completely without humans
– Defense News – The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched its newest foray into unleashing robot warships on the world’s seas: NOMARS.
Russian Navy’s Top Officer Says Shadowy Zircon Hypersonic Missile Has “Childhood Diseases”
– War Zone – The missile, details about which are scant, has at least some development hurdles to overcome and is still years away from entering service.
Navy Will Commission All Expeditionary Sea Bases as USS Warships
– USNI News – The Navy will now commission all of its Expeditionary Sea Base ships to allow them to conduct a broader and more lethal mission set, compared to original plans for them as Military Sealift Command ships with a USNS designation.
Lincoln Strike Group CO: Record Deployment Marks New Uncertainty for Fleet
– USNI News – The 3,000 sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) arrived at their new California homeport this morning having spent more time deployed than any carrier since the mid-1970s – 294 days.
Is 2020 Really 1940 for the U.S. Navy?
– National Interest – To a degree, anyway. Back then naval grandees, administration officials, and lawmakers discerned grave dangers gathering along the Western European and East Asian rimlands and resolved to rebuild American military might to manage them. Today naval grandees, administration officials, and lawmakers discern grave dangers gathering along the East Asian rimland and are saying the right things about rebuilding American maritime might to manage them.
China’s most advanced destroyer the Nanchang formally enters service in ‘leap forward’ for navy
– South China Morning Post – Ship is the first Type 055 guided missile destroyer to be commissioned into the PLA Navy and is one of the most advanced warships of its type in the world.
China to stop building Type 056 corvettes as navy shifts focus to larger vessels
– South China Morning Post – The PLA Navy has started ordering bigger warships as it starts to prepare for missions further away from its shoreline.
Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt Leaves San Diego for Indo-Pacific Deployment
– USNI News – Family and friends said goodbye on Friday to more than 6,000 sailors with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, which is leaving for a scheduled deployment to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command region.
War In The Taiwan Strait Is Not Unthinkable: Some Will Lose More Than Others
– Journal of Political Risk – Whether anyone actually ‘wins’ a war is a philosophical debate. The Germans and Japanese in 1945 might have thought wars do indeed have winners. But perhaps it’s better said that in most conflicts some parties ‘lose more than others.’ Such would be the case if Beijing attempted to militarily subjugate Taiwan.
Expeditionary Hogs and Blue Water Bones
– USNI Blog – While the composition of the surface combatant force is frequently discussed, the composition of Marine air wings and land-based Navy platforms remains relatively unexamined. This is partly due to the success of the P-8A and the tri-service initial operating capability of F-35s. However, both Marine Corps air wings and Navy Tactical Air have glaring capability holes, which could be filled by repurposing Air Force platforms. The U.S. Navy should acquire B-1s and Marine Corps A-10s. This acquisition is both tactically and operationally advantageous, is fiscally sound, and logistically achievable in the near term.
Australian defense leaders defend submarine buy with France’s Naval Group
– Defense News – Australian defense leaders this week denied claims that their department was urged to consider alternatives to the navy’s plans of buying 12 large conventionally-powered submarines from France’s Naval Group.
Test of Ready Reserve Force Exposes Need For Newer Ships, More People
– USNI News – When U.S. Transportation Command tested the ability of the nation’s maritime Ready Reserve Force to set sail on short notice, only about 40 percent of the vessels deemed ready were able to leave port.
Northern Fleet aviation to get new sub hunters
– Barents Observer – The rebuilt version of the passenger aircraft Tu-204/214 will be Russia’s equivalent to the U.S. built Boeing P-8 Poseidon that Norway, among others, will deploy for surveillance flights over the Barents- and Norwegian Seas.
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