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Author Archives: Naval Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
Chinese Navy – Pragmatic Partners, the Unsung Story of U.S.-China Anti-Piracy Coordination
– Asia Unbound – Out of the limelight, Gulf of Aden cooperation has provided both China and the United States with a vital conduit for progressive military contact amid protracted mistrust in the Asia Pacific. Indeed, their navies recently conducted a joint anti-piracy exercise there. In the future, Far Seas non-traditional security cooperation is set to play an even larger role in buttressing Sino-American military relations.
Miscellaneous – Your Aircraft Carrier Is a Piece of Crap
– War is Boring – Case studies in faulty flattops.
US Navy – Now We Know What the Navy’s Next Submarine Will Look Like
– War is Boring – Admiral reveals five possible future sub designs.
Chinese Navy – Lifting the Veil on China’s “Carrier-Killer”
– The Diplomat – An update on the Chinese antiship ballistic missile program.
Chinese Navy – China’s Naval Modernization and Implications for the United States
– US and China Economic Security Review Commission – In the late 1980s, China began a modernization program to transform the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy from a coastal force into a technologically-advanced regional navy. China’s acquisition of platforms, weapons, and systems has emphasized qualitative improvements, not quantitative growth, and centered on improving its ability to strike opposing ships at sea and operate at greater distances from the Chinese mainland. The PLA Navy has made significant progress, particularly since the late 1990s. Today, it is able to conduct high intensity operations in China’s immediate periphery and carry out low intensity operations around the world. Trends in China’s defense spending, research and development, and shipbuilding suggest the PLA Navy will continue to modernize through at least 2020. China’s increasingly advanced and adaptive naval capabilities – many of which appear to be designed to restrict U.S. freedom of action throughout the Western Pacific – could undermine U.S. interests and security in the region.
Canadian Navy – Canada To Rely on Allies for At-Sea Refueling
– Defense News – Canada will have to rely on its allies to resupply its warships at sea for a two-year period because of ongoing delays in the construction of a new fleet of support ships for its Navy.
Chinese Navy – China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress
– Congressional Research Service – The Congressional Research Service’s most recent analysis of the Chinese Navy.
French Navy – A visual tour of Adroit
– Aviation Week – The Adroit offshore patrol vessel, designed and built by France’s naval systems group DCNS on its its own funds, has been on loan to the French navy since summer 2011. The navy will put it through its paces for another year before handing it back to DCNS which says it has some very interested potential customers for the ship.
South Korean Navy – South Korea’s New Navy is Impressive … and Pointless
– War is Boring – Seoul has bought itself a fancy new navy, but at the expense of troops guarding the peninsula.
US Navy – Nimitz Leaves Red Sea
– USNI News – The American aircraft carrier that has been on standby in case of a flare up in Syria has left the Red Sea for a brief stint in the Mediterranean Sea.
Russian Navy – Russia Is Finally Slicing Up Its Abandoned, Radioactive Submarines
– War is Boring – Nuclear contamination has been a persistent source of danger along Russia’s Arctic coast.
Russian Navy – DCNS launch Vladivostok, Russian Navy's first Mistral class LHD
– Navy Recognition – Vladivostok, the first of two BPC-type vessels (LHD – Landing Helicopter Dock) on order from DCNS for the Russian Federation was floated out of its building dock at STX France’s Saint-Nazaire shipyard on 15 October. The event was attended by senior officials representing the French and Russian navies and shipbuilding industries. The programme has proceeded as planned since the contract came into force in late 2011, with the vessels on schedule for delivery in late 2014 and late 2015 respectively.
US Navy – U.S. builds up military bases in Italy for African ops
– UPI – The U.S. deployment of 200 Marines to a naval base in Sicily for possible operations in Libya, a short hop across the Mediterranean, underlines how the Americans have been building a network of bases in Italy as launch pads for military interventions in Africa and the Mideast.
Air Warfare – Droning America: The Tech Our Enemies Can Buy
– War on the Rocks – Very interesting article by T.X. Hammes on the current state of unmanned aerial vehicles and how the United States’ enemies may obtain and use them, and how they make high cost US defense assets very vulnerable.
US Navy – 5 Questions on a Future War in the Pacific
– War on the Rocks – What lessons from World War II in the Pacific could be used in a future war in the Pacific?
US Marine Corps – Fleet of air cushions vital to safeguarding island chain
– Stars and Stripes – Defending territory and allies in the Pacific largely comes down to the ability to strike quickly from the sea, control a beachhead and secure it with troops and equipment. One of the U.S. military’s main weapons in that mission is the Landing Craft Air Cushion, a hovercraft that can travel across 70 percent of the world’s beaches compared to conventional craft’s 20 percent, and can hit a beach at upwards of 46 miles-per-hour with a full load of Marines, tanks and light armored vehicles. LCACs are also integral to humanitarian operations where ports and piers are damaged or blocked.
Vietnamese Navy – With Russia’s Help, Vietnam Adopts A2/AD Strategy
– The Diplomat – By the end of this year the naval balance of power in the South China Sea will begin to alter when Vietnam takes delivery of its first Kilo-class fast attack submarines.
US Navy – Blockading China: A Guide
– War on the Rocks – How Chinese maritime traffic could be blockaded by US forces.
Royal Navy – All the Things the British Military Can’t Do Anymore
– Medium – Build destroyers and submarines that work, for one, before the Royal Navy fades away.
US Navy – Drones to the Rescue!
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The current budget squeeze has revived the debate about whether to reduce the number of the Navy’s aircraft carriers, but the prospective addition of unmanned aerial vehicles to the flattop’s arsenal will make the ships even more valuable in coming years.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan’s Amphibious Buildup
– USNI News – Japan recently has been in the news as a result of several high-profile territorial incidents with its neighbor China. The incidents involve what Japanese call the Senkaku islands—the Diaoyu islands to the Chinese. Japan has legal ownership of the islands, which China disputes. The incidents have involved non-government activists and the coast guards of both nations, with many fearing an escalation could lead to some form of armed conflict. Spurred on by those developments, Japan has accelerated what have been until now quiet plans to develop a specialized unit of marine infantry.
US Navy – Target of SEAL raid planned attacks in Kenya
– AP – The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country’s parliament building and the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, according to a Kenyan government intelligence report.
Miscellaneous – How to Sink an Aircraft Carrier
– War is Boring – Sneak up in a submarine, is how.
Iranian Navy – Eyeing Gulf Shipping, Iran’s Mass Producing Submarines
– The Diplomat – Iran is steadily increasing its ability to indigenously produce different kinds of submarines, some of which would likely play an important role in any Iranian effort to close down the Strait of Hormuz. In an interview with the semi-official Fars News Agency this week, Admiral Khordad Hakimi, commander of the Iranian Army’s 4th Naval Zone in the Caspian Sea, said that Iran is mass producing light submarines and has begun constructing medium submarines.
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