Naval News – Submarine expert H I Sutton takes a close look at China’s Type 039A submarine and explains what makes it the most powerful attack submarine in the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)’s arsenal.
SSN(X): Does the U.S. Navy Need a Big and Expensive New Attack Submarine?
National Interest – James Holmes writes that sure, size considerations for any warship matter. But maybe we are asking the wrong question: Is SSN(X) the right boat to comprise the future submarine fleet?
Sudan to host Russian military base
Defense News – Russia will establish a naval logistic center and repair yard in Sudan under a new agreement signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Nov. 6 but just made public this week.
Inside The Navy’s Top Aggressor Squadron That Is About To Trade Its Hornets For Super Hornets
War Zone – The Navy’s “Fighting Omars” aggressor squadron will receive its Super Hornets in 2021. Here’s how they plan to use them.
Lessons From the Roosevelt: A Call For Improving the U.S. Navy’s Preparedness for Biological Threats
War on the Rocks – There are important lessons to be learned from the outbreak of COVID-19 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt that should inform the U.S. Navy’s preparedness for and response to future biological threats.
Haze Gray Zone
CIMSEC – a fictional intelligence short story.
6 Platforms for Marine Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations Logistics
The Diplomat – Alongside exploring conventional options, the Marine Corps must also think out-of-the-box when it comes to meeting EABO logistics requirements.
New Evidence Suggests North Korea has a Naval Marine Mammal Program
USNI News – Evidence is emerging that the North Korean regime is training dolphins for military purposes, according to new satellite imagery.
Cybersecurity at Port Facilities: Making Rules Requires Rulemaking
CIMSEC – In February 2020, the U.S. Coast Guard published guidelines for port facilities to address cybersecurity threats. The new guidelines were needed, but they are not enough. The U.S. Coast Guard should, to carry out its legal duty to safeguard the maritime transportation system, energize the domestic rulemaking process to adopt uniform and enforceable cybersecurity rules for maritime facilities.
No Margin Left: Overworked Carrier Force Struggles to Maintain Deployments After Decades of Overuse
USNI News – Today, the Pentagon is using up aircraft carrier readiness faster than the Navy can generate it.
Destination Unknown Volume 2
Marine Corps University Press – A new volume of fictional intelligence (FICINT) short stories from the US Marines. (in PDF format)
Strong French Navy Presence In The Eastern Mediterranean
Naval News – The French Navy announced that it has deployed a Surface Action Group to the Eastern Mediterranean in order to strengthen its presence in the area.
United States Approves Possible FMS Of Submarine Hunting UAVs To The UAE
Naval News – The United States’ State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of up to 19 MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.97 billion. The package includes “ASW mission kits” meaning at least some of the aircraft will be the SeaGuardian variant of General Atomics’ MQ-9B.
Does the U.S. Navy Have a Tradition Problem?
National Interest – Navy leaders must think of themselves as cultural stewards, not just administrators, strategists, or operators.
Marine F-35 Squadron Details Training Deployment Aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth
USNI News – This week a squadron of Marine F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters wrapped up nearly two months of training aboard the U.K. Royal Navy HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), paving the way for U.S. and U.K. fighters to operate interchangeably when the British aircraft carrier leaves on its first deployment.
Marine Corps receives first amphibious combat vehicle
Marine Corps Times – The first shipment of amphibious combat vehicles hit the fleet Nov. 4, according to the Marine Corps.
Annual project for U.S. Marines to train Taiwanese troops goes ahead
Focus Taiwan – A group of U.S. Marine Corps instructors are visiting Taiwan as part of an annual project to help train Taiwanese troops to beef up their combat preparedness.
Royal Canadian Navy Unveils New Details On CSC Frigates
Naval News – The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) released the latest details on the configuration of its next generation frigates: the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC). They will be heavily armed, featuring Naval Strike Missiles, Tomahawk and both ESSM and Sea Ceptor.
Two Russian Spy Ships Operating Near Important Military Base In Scotland
Naval News – Two Russian Navy intelligence gathering ships have taken up position off the British coast.
Shipbuilding: Here today, gone tomorrow
Defense News – In the coming months, defense planners at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill should converge on what kind of Navy they want and devise a plan to get there. Because until there is a steady, reasonable and workable plan, industry seems unlikely to invest in expansions to meet the latest here-today, gone-tomorrow shipbuilding plan.
Dust
Over the Horizon – Science Fiction has always been a vehicle to the future. In the modern era of conversations about complexity, AI, human machine interfaces, and other exotic ideas, the genre can provide a way to stitch things together. We can take all of these disparate developments, operating concepts, and fuzzy ideas and combine them the same way our ancestors made sense of the word: with a story. At the strategic level, the two nations in conflict here have taken a markedly different approach to developing today’s technological trends. The enemy nation of Donovia has invested heavily in autonomous systems and artificial intelligence (AI), taking a bet that they can teach and grow better algorithms. Christopherson’s side, however, has taken a more balanced approach to integrating AI and autonomy by preserving man-on-the-loop for action and keeping their strategic level AI providing intelligence fusion. Different strategies will influence the future of technology development, but more importantly strategy will dictate how we use those technologies.
Army Picks Tomahawk & SM-6 For Mid-Range Missiles
Breaking Defense – Instead of picking a single missile to be its thousand-mile Mid-Range Capability, the Army has chosen to mix two very different Navy weapons together in its prototype MRC unit: the new, supersonic, high-altitude SM-6 and the venerable, subsonic, low-flying Tomahawk.
Littoral combat ship Detroit is being towed into port after another engineering failure
Defense News – The littoral combat ship Detroit suffered another engineering casualty on its return trip to its home port in Florida and is being towed into Port Canaveral, the U.S. Navy confirmed Friday.
Marine Corps Boss Has Big Plans To Get Into The Business Of Hunting And Killing Submarines
War Zone – Marines could find themselves searching for and attacking enemy submarines, as well as indirectly supporting other anti-submarine operations.
French navy begins broad revamp of its mine-hunting abilities
Defense News – France is to entirely overhaul its mine countermeasures systems, armed forces minister Florence Parly has confirmed, replacing all current equipment ranging from the Éridan class of mine-hunting ships to sonars by 2029.
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