– Medium – Tokyo’s aircraft carriers once ruled the waves; could they make a comeback?
Author Archives: Naval Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
Chinese Navy – China Employs Ships As Weapon Test Platforms
– Signal – The People’s Republic of China has been introducing diverse new classes of ships into its navy for decades, but it also has employed some as vessels for weapons trials. Three ships distinctly have served as test platforms for many of the new technologies that entered service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy, or PLAN. An examination of these trial ships can illustrate the next generation of technologies about to be incorporated in the navy.
US Navy – UCAS Anomaly Resolved On Deck After Historic Landing
– Aviation Week – There is no doubt that today’s first-ever arrested landing of the Northrop Grumman X-47B air vehicle 2 on the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush will go down in history books as a major milestone in aerospace history. But, what could be a footnote in the historical record is an anomaly that took place shortly after the first-ever landing of a stealthy, tailless unmanned aircraft on a carrier deck. It could have dampened the historical day had the system not been preprogrammed to handle a host of issues that could crop up. But, it didn’t. That came later when a third landing attempt sent the aircraft ashore
US Navy – X-47B makes first carrier trap
– Flight Global – The US Navy made aviation history on 10 July when a Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air system-demonstrator aircraft made a first-ever arrested landing onboard the aircraft carrier USS George H W Bush, which was sailing some 70 miles (113km) of the Virginia coast.
US Navy – Navy Should Delay Next Carrier Amid Troubles, GAO Audit Says
– Business Week – The U.S. Navy should delay the award of a multibillion-dollar contract to Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) to build the second aircraft carrier in a new class as the first one faces failings from its radar to the gear that launches planes, congressional investigators said.
US Navy – Here’s How the Navy Plans to Shoot Down High-Tech Chinese Jets
– Medium – By homing in on their heat with a new missile.
US Navy – LCS — The Battle Within
– Aviation Week – The biggest impediment to the potential success of the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) may very well be some of the top-level brass who continue to view the ship through the “old-think” prism used to scrutinize traditional Navy warships.
US Navy – Inside the World’s Deadliest Warship
– Medium – Just below the surface with the submarine USS Toledo.
US Navy – Return Of LCS Past
– Aviation Week – The ghosts of the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship’s (LCS) past still haunt the program – with the specter of LCS-yet-to-come striking fear among some in Congress about what may be in store for the fleet in terms of costs and operational relevance.
Chinese Navy – China's naval aspirations: A 'blue-water' force
– Stars and Stripes – A century before Columbus discovered America, Chinese naval vessels many times bigger than the Santa Maria sailed the high seas, reaching as far as Africa. But, unlike European voyages of discovery, the Chinese efforts did not forge a global empire. Beset by internal strife, China abandoned its naval efforts, and by 1500, it was a capital offense to build a seagoing junk with more than two masts. Today, fueled by a booming economy, Chinese naval power is on the rise again.
Chinese Navy – China and Russia conduct joint naval drill
– BBC – China and Russia are beginning joint naval drills which Beijing has described as the country’s largest with a foreign partner.
Piracy – Deadly Bandits of the Western Sea
– Medium – Peter Dörrie explains escalating piracy in Africa’s Gulf of Guinea.
Chinese Navy – China’s Overhyped Sub Threat
– Medium – Beijing’s submarine fleet is not as big or powerful as U.S. military planners once feared. Have its blue-water ambitions been overstated?
Russian Navy – Russia’s Got Deadly New Submarines
– Medium – Should America panic or not?
US Navy – Navy Unveils Electrical Power ‘Road Map’
– DefenseTech – The U.S. Navy wants to improve its ability to store, generate and surge electricity on ships to accommodate exponentially increasing demand for power, service officials said.
US Marines – Marines See Asian Allies as Their Best Weapon Against China
– National Defense – Analysts predict that as Navy and Marine Corps forces expand their presence in the Asia-Pacific region, they will face so-called “anti-access” threats from emerging powers such as a China. But Marine leaders in the region do not fear such scenarios, and believe that by establishing close ties with Asian allies, the United States will have access when it needs it, said Brig. Gen. Richard L. Simcock, deputy commander of Marine Forces Pacific. The command is the Corps’ largest, with approximately 83,000 Marines and sailors.
US Navy – Navy to Equip Destroyers with Next-Gen Radar
– Defense Tech – The U.S. Navy plans to outfit destroyers with a next-generation radar that is far more powerful in detecting and locating potential threats than the system on ships today. The Air and Missile Defense Radar, or AMDR, now in development and slated for integration on ships by 2016, is part of a series of technological upgrades in what the Navy calls Flight III modernization increments for its fleet of DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class of destroyers.
US Navy – US Navy's New, Bigger Fire Scout To Fly This Fall
– Defense News – There’s a new Fire Scout in the pipeline — bigger, faster, longer legs, more muscle. It’s still being assembled and won’t fly until later this year, but it’s headed for the fleet as soon as late 2014. And it could fundamentally change some of the parameters expected of the US Navy’s seagoing unmanned helicopter program.
Russian Navy – Russia reports pullout from small base in Syria
– Washington Post – Russia has evacuated all military personnel from its small naval base in Syria.
US Navy – US has no 'plan B' for Bahrain naval base
– AFP – The US military has failed to prepare a realistic “plan B” if political turmoil forces the closure of a vital naval base in Bahrain, a naval officer argues in a report.
Chinese Navy – How China Got There First: Beijing’s Unique Path to ASBM Development and Deployment
– Jamestown Foundation – China’s deployment of the world’s first operational anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) has just been confirmed with unprecedented clarity by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). The ASBM’s development path was unusual in many respects, but may increasingly represent the shape of things to come for China’s defense industry.
Chinese Navy – The new masters and commanders
– Economist – China’s growing empire of ports abroad is mainly about trade, not aggression.
Royal Navy – The Type 45 Daring-Class Destroyer: How Project Management Problems Led to Fewer Ships
– US Naval War College Review – Characterized by cost overruns, delivery delays, and, initially, reduced capabilities, the Type 45 program has become a symbol in the United Kingdom for mismanagement of procurement.
US Navy – Print Me a Cruiser!
– US Naval Institute Proceedings – The 3D printing revolution will radically change naval construction and logistics.
Chinese Navy – Race to the North: China's Arctic Strategy and its Implications
– US Naval War College Review – Non-arctic states, including China, India, and Italy, as well as the European Union collectively, are making preparations to exploit a seasonally ice-free Arctic, thus complicating the Arctic’s already fragile security environment. As the Finnish Foreign Minister stated in 2009, “the Arctic is evolving from a regional frozen backwater into a global hot issue.” Most notable among these external actors is the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which has maintained a vast, well-funded Arctic research apparatus since the mid-1990s and has invested heavily in Arctic-resource projects in recent years. For China’s energy import–dependent economy, Arctic resources and sea-lanes present a welcome strategic remedy. In light of the nation’s growing Arctic interests, Chinese leaders have begun to promulgate the notion that China is a “near-Arctic state” and a “stakeholder” in Arctic affairs. Notwithstanding China’s assertiveness with respect to its Arctic interests, important questions remain as to how it will pursue these ambitions, as it possesses neither Arctic territory nor the ability to vote on official policy at the Arctic Council. Cognizant of these inherent disadvantages, the PRC is leveraging its economic, political, and diplomatic might in order to secure for itself a say in Arctic affairs.
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