Global Times – With the return of the Shandong aircraft carrier group and other warships, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has seemingly wrapped up its five-day blitz exercise around the island of Taiwan, which analysts said on Saturday was characterized by its large scale, joint operations and short duration in what could be a new tactic.
Germany, Norway Begin Construction of Identical Submarines
The Defense Post – Germany and Norway have begun constructing identical submarines to boost their maritime defense and strengthen military collaboration.
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Alexa Write My OpOrd: Promise and Pitfalls of Machine Learning for Commanders in Combat
CIMSEC – If used unwisely, without a solid understanding of what decisions machine learning (ML) will support, the joint force may be playing a rigged game against a peer adversary. ML-enabled capabilities can absorb large amounts of data, process and organize it, and generate insights for humans who work at a relative snail’s pace. However, these nascent tools cannot reason and interpret words or events as a competent military professional can. As strategic competition between the United States and China intensifies over Taiwan, the South China Sea, the Russian-Ukraine war, and other geopolitical issues, American political and military leaders must develop a better understanding of when and how to use ML to support joint force planning, execution, and assessment in combat, lest U.S. service members pay an ungodly sum of the butcher’s bill.
Further Analysis Of North Korea’s New Missile Submarines
Covert Shores – A major question is whether ‘Hero Kim Gun-ok’ is the same submarine which was showing in 2019 when Kim Jong Un visited Sinpo. That boat, known in the West as Sinpo-C, was undergoing conversion to carry missiles. The temptation is to say that it is probably the same submarine. However, a comparison if the available imagery identifies significant and numerous differences.
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At-Sea Political Officers Could Pose Problems for Chinese Navy in War, Experts Say
USNI News – While the Chinese Navy has made progress operating at sea, institutional issues between its military and political leadership could pose problems in a wartime scenario.
Cargo Ship Crew Evacuated after Explosion Near Romanian Danube Port
MarineLink – The crew of a Togo-flagged general cargo ship bound for one of Ukraine’s Danube river ports was evacuated early on Wednesday after an explosion on board near the Romanian port of Sulina.
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Tumult in the Deep: The Unfolding Maritime Competition Over Undersea Infrastructure
War Zone – With an average depth of about 4,000 meters (or about 2.5 miles), most of the ocean and seafloor are out of sight and out of mind. However, trends suggest that the deep ocean and seabed are poised to rise in importance – both physically and as a venue for Information Warfare (IW) – due to the intertwined nature of critical infrastructure, resources, and national security. Undersea infrastructure is rapidly growing and populations are becoming ever more dependent on its utility. This infrastructure growth is posing novel challenges and opportunities for competition and national security. Navies must astutely follow the development of undersea infrastructure as they may be called upon to defend, attack, or influence it.
Special Ops C-130s Using Beaches As Runways Eyed For Pacific Fight
War Zone – MC-130s operating from beaches could provide critical logistics in the Pacific where runways are few in number and under threat.
Revamping Fleet Design and Maritime Strategy – An Integrated Naval Campaign for Advantage
CIMSEC – The robotic age of warfare enables a much closer relationship between international partners using smaller, more numerous systems for maritime security and creating a lethal warfighting advantage by increasing surveillance, targeting, and weapon capacity in critical regions.13 Leveraging this relationship is the basis for a maritime strategy to maintain integrated forces with partners forward, while retaining major elements of the traditional fleet to preserve sea control along the ocean’s logistics lines. It can become the maritime component of a maritime nation’s national strategy, executed through a well-planned and worldwide integrated naval campaign.
Russian Submarine Shows Massive Damage After Ukrainian Strike
War Zone – Photos of major damage to a Russian Navy submarine attacked while in dry dock in Crimea point to the boat being a complete write-off.
American coast guard vessel is sailing into Russian Arctic waters. Almost at same time, Moscow launches naval exercise in the area
Barents Observer – Only few days after U.S icebreaking coast guard ship Healy sailed through the Bering Strait and into the Chukchi Sea as part of a 7-week westbound voyage along the Russian Arctic coast, the Russian Navy started drills in the area on “protection of the Northern Sea.”
A Korean Expansion: The Future Of The Philippine Fleet
Naval News – From sales to donations and even upgrades of older vessels, South Korea has taken the lead role in modernizing the Philippine Navy.
The B-21 Raider Is Far More Than Just A Stealth Bomber
1945 – James Holmes writes that if successful, in short, the B-21 will present U.S. and allied commanders the opportunity to exploit command of the air before winning it.
The future of underwater warfare
Council on Geostrategy – Professor Andrew Lambert writes that while the prospect of AUV submarines powered by AI roaming the deep ocean, striking submarine cables, ships and land targets at will may add a frisson of uncertainty to current anxieties, the technology is costly and offers limited return for continental powers focused on sea denial and area defence. It is more likely that, in the short term, AUVs develop into effective components of mixed underwater and three-dimensional security and combat forces which will enhance sea control, rather than challenge it. AUVs operating as fugitives in a hostile ocean will find it difficult to achieve tactical, let alone strategic effect.
Ukraine Situation Report: Rumors Swirl Of New Attacks On Black Sea Fleet
War Zone – Two Russian warships appeared in Sevastopol under tow but without clear signs of damage, while others remain unaccounted for.
First grain ships arrive in Ukraine using new route
BBC – Two cargo ships have arrived at a Ukrainian port after travelling through the Black Sea using a new route, Ukrainian port authorities said.
RFA Proteus puts to sea for the first time since conversion
Navy Lookout – The UK’s first Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance (MROS) ship RFA Proteus sailed from Birkenhead today following conversion work.
Australian, UK and US tech companies already reaping AUKUS benefits
Defense News – Artificial intelligence and autonomy companies from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States are already feverishly developing and pitching tools to gather ever-more data and then help operators make sense of an information-overload environment. They’re hoping all this work will lead to contracts at home and with the allies soon, as more details about the second phase of the AUKUS trilateral arrangement, focused on advanced technology, come to light this fall.
Replicator: How America Plans To Take On The China Military Challenge
1945 – James Holmes opines on “Replicator,” an initiative meant to field “small, smart, cheap” uncrewed, autonomous aerial, surface, and subsurface vehicles by the thousand within the next two years—all without asking Congress for additional taxpayer dollars.
Our First Look At Boeing’s Pre-Production MQ-25 Stingray
War Zone – Boeing has provided visuals of its first pre-production example of the MQ-25 Stingray tanker drone, which the company is currently developing for the U.S. Navy. Up to this point, the MQ-25 demonstrator — which is also known as the T1 — has been the public ‘face’of the Stingray program.
India to Take on Future U.S. Navy Ship Maintenance Per Agreement
USNI News – India will be serving as a future maintenance hub for U.S. Navy assets in the Indo-Pacific, according to a joint U.S.-India statement issued last week on the sidelines of G20 in New Delhi.
MQ-4C Triton Reaches Initial Operational Capability, UAV on 2nd Guam Deployment
USNI News – After making several updates to the platform, the Navy’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned squadron is back in Guam for its second operational deployment.
US Navy brings massive fire power to Tromsø
Barents Observer – This is the first time a guided missile submarine of the Ohio-class makes port call to Northern Norway. The “USS Florida” is one of the most powerful warships in the world, capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles.
Russian Submarine, Landing Ship Struck In Attack On Sevastopol
War Zone – Russia says cruise missiles and drone boats were used in the overnight attack that left the Black Sea Fleet port in occupied Crimea ablaze.
Royal Navy Charts A Course To Uncrewed ASW
Naval News – The Royal Navy has outlined ambitions to introduce uncrewed and autonomous systems as a means to increase lethality and build mass in its future anti-submarine warfare capability.
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