– Washington Free Beacon – A fire aboard a secret Russian nuclear research vessel that killed 14 Russians may have been involved in secret operations by Moscow to support underwater drone operations.
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Navy Completed Hellfire Tests on Littoral Combat Ship, Will Likely Deploy Later This Year
– USNI News – The Navy has finished the structural testing needed to confirm that the Hellfire anti-surface missile can safely operate on the Littoral Combat Ship, and the missile will go out on a ship deployment later this year.
Maritime Order and America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
– CIMSEC – Freedom of seas has been and remains essential for all Americans. However, maritime order is increasingly at risk and from both traditional and nontraditional threats. A critical question is whether we can sustain freedom of the seas into the future.
Unleash Directed-Energy Weapons
– USNI Proceedings – Directed-energy weapons could provide the U.S. military with its biggest technological advantage ever. It is time to make the big bets that will put them in the hands of war-fighters.
The Navy Needs AI, It’s Just Not Certain Why
– USNI Proceedings – A force that can harness AI to make decisions faster than the adversary will have the advantage. But what specific tasks should these technologies help warfighters perform?
China’s Reported Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Test In The South China Sea Is A Big Deal
– War Zone – The test fits within a larger trend of increasingly provocative Chinese efforts to assert their authority in the disputed region.
The Role of Public Affairs in US Seapower, Part 1
– CIMSEC – To achieve success, the Navy must enable public affairs to function as a tool of credibility versus persuasion and spin, it must embody the principles of transparency, and it must better synchronize public affairs with other elements of U.S. information power such as information operations and public diplomacy.
S. China Sea Missile Test Violated Xi Militarization Pledge
– Washington Free Beacon – Carrier-killing anti-ship ballistic missile fired from disputed Spratly Islands.
US Upgrades Ukrainian Ports To Fit American Warships
– Breaking Defense – As tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine on the Black Sea, the US is upgrading several Ukrainian naval bases to give American and NATO warships the ability to dock just miles from Russia-controlled Crimea.
Japan’s Biggest Warship Offers Clue To Military Ambitions
– Associated Press – One of Japan’s largest warships, the helicopter carrier Izumo, offers a glimpse of where its military is headed: For the first time, troops from a newly formed amphibious brigade of Japan’s army participated in an extended naval deployment.
Here’s Everything We Know About The Deadly Russian Submarine Fire
– War Zone – Reports and rumors are flying about the accident, which may have been aboard the shadowy spy sub Losharik, as Putin clears his schedule.
14 Sailors Die on Secretive Russian Nuclear Submarine
– USNI News – A fire that broke out on the secret Russian submarine Losharik has killed 14 sailors.
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U.S. Marines Train on French Amphib During ‘Jeanne d’Arc Task Force’ Stop at Camp Lejeune
– USNI News – A French task group on deployment with 130 officer cadets teamed up with U.S. Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Camp Lejeune for a few days of at-sea amphibious operations in North Carolina.
Littoral Combat Ship Deploys for First Time in 19 Months; USS Montgomery Left Unannounced in Early June
– USNI News – There is a Littoral Combat Ship operating forward on deployment for the first time in 19 months, with USS Montgomery (LCS-8) arriving in the Philippines over the weekend on its maiden deployment.
Navy Calls In Outsiders To Fix Troubled Ford Carrier
– Breaking Defense – Increasingly concerned over technological problems plaguing its new $13 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Navy has dispatched a unique team of civilian and government experts to the USS Gerald R. Ford in a new attempt to understand what is happening.
A top US Navy engineer says the fleet needs to get out and bust the rust
– Defense News – With the Navy looking to keeps its surface combatants such as the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers for 40-to-45 years each, sailors and maintainers must do everything they can to keep corrosion under control.
Navy eyes new launchers on stalwart destroyers for putting hypersonics afloat
– Defense News – With bigger, faster missiles in development and bound for the fleet, the Navy’s engineers are eyeing back-fitting upgraded launchers on its stalwart Arleigh Burke destroyers.
What Does Putin Really Want?
– New York Times Magazine – Russia is dead set on being a global power. But what looks like grand strategy is often improvisation — amid America’s retreat.
China Confirms Submarine-Launched Missile Test
– Washington Free Beacon – China’s Defense Ministry this week confirmed the test firing of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile the Pentagon regards as a strategic weapon capable of striking anywhere in the United States from underwater launch points.
Information at the Water’s Edge: Amphibious Command and Control From Aspiration to Reality
– War on the Rocks – Integrated command and control among blue and green forces is essential to ensure lethality. Achieving better integration among the organizations and information systems of the military services will foster a decisive temporal advantage in the maritime domain, a critical requirement for speed and agility in combat against near-peer rivals.
Time to Re-Task, Downsize, and Re-engineer the SSN, Part II
– CIMSEC – As discussed in Part I, it is clear that NAVSEA needs to undertake a project now to completely re-engineer the next generation of SSNs. The old bloated SSN(X) (now “New SSN”) concept should be rejected entirely because it is more of the same, but bigger and more expensive. Instead, the Navy should go for a new class of SSN that is far smaller and cheaper than the current Block 5 Virginias.
Pentagon secretly struck back against Iranian cyberspies targeting U.S. ships
– Yahoo News – On Thursday evening, U.S. Cyber Command launched a retaliatory digital strike against an Iranian spy group that supported last week’s limpet mine attacks on commercial ships, according to two former intelligence officials.
Piracy in West Africa: The world’s most dangerous seas?
– BBC – The seas off West Africa’s oil-rich coastline are now the most dangerous in the world for shipping, according to a new report.
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