– USNI News – By embracing data and developing the Naval Sustainment System and Performance to Plan frameworks for aviation readiness, the Navy had 340 more aircraft flying in March 2020 compared to March 2019, including 90 more Super Hornets.
To Prepare For a Crisis, Read Fiction
– War on the Rocks – …As policymakers make hurried judgments with vast, life-altering consequences, they draw on a stock of intellectual capital assembled over decades. Every discipline — psychology, economics, biology, history — examines the world through a particular prism. Yet only fiction invites us inside the minds of others, transports us across time and place, and produces in us a kind of experience we could otherwise never attain. By enmeshing us in its characters and stories, reading fiction helps policymakers better understand the human condition, and more ably fashion responses to it.
Pentagon Leaders Say Trump Tweet on Iranian Attack Boats Was ‘Important Warning’
– USNI News – The Navy’s existing policy for dealing with the small Iranian vessels prevalent in the Persian Gulf matches the sentiment of a Wednesday morning Tweet from President Donald Trump.
U.S. Navy & Royal Australian Navy Team Up In The South China Sea
– Naval News – The U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy came together for operations in the South China Sea.
Naval Surface Fire Support An Assessment of Requirements
– RAND – Naval surface fire support (NSFS) has been a traditional mission of U.S. Navy surface combatants. Although naval guns have been viewed as a major instrument of sea control, they have also been seen, and widely used, as ways to directly influence the battle ashore by providing the equivalent of artillery support for U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) forces operating ashore. Although there is no denying that the Navy and the USMC have viewed NSFS as important, the actual requirements are sometimes vague.
An Overview of the New Hydrographic Vessels of the Russian Navy
– Naval News – The navigation and oceanography department of the Russian Defense Ministry will receive a dozen new hydrographic boats and vessels by 2021. Each Russian Navy fleet will be reinforced with them.
Russia Has Abandoned Its Massive Nuclear Destroyer And Supersized Frigate Programs
– War Zone – Russia’s Severnoye Design Bureau has stopped development entirely of its Project 23560 destroyers, also known as the Lider class, and the Project 22350M frigate, an expanded derivative of the Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov class. The company has said these ships are among its most promising future offerings and the halting of the two programs has raised questions about its long-term financial stability.
China Launches 2nd Type 075 LHD For The PLAN
– Naval News – China’s second amphibious assault ship, a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) known as Type 075, was launched in Shanghai today by Hudong Zhonghua shipyard.
Iran views the pandemic as prime time for antics at sea — at its peril
– The Hill – James Holmes writes that America’s coronavirus agony is Iran’s opportunity. Or at least the mullahs who rule the Islamic Republic may see it that way — rightly or wrongly.
USNS Comfort to leave New York and head back to Norfolk, Trump says
– Virginian Pilot – A Navy hospital ship deployed to New York City to help fight the coronavirus outbreak is no longer needed, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, expressing confidence that stresses on the hospital system are easing.
Operation Indigo Spear and the Second Tanker War of 2022
– CIMSEC – A new naval near-future fiction story.
Ex-RAN Adelaide-Class Frigates Commissioned With The Chilean Navy
– Naval News – Australia officially transferred former Adelaide-class frigates Melbourne (FFG 05) and Newcastle (FFG 06) to the Chilean Navy.
How Submarines Regularly ‘Fight To The Death’ Off The Bahamas
– War Zone – Just like how Navy planes have vast instrumented ranges for aerial wargames, submarines have one too, and it is arguably even more impressive.
Taiwan Starts Construction On 3rd & 4th Mine Laying Ship
– Naval News – A keel laying ceremony was held on April 17 at Taiwanese shipbuilder Lungteh Shipbuilding for the 3rd and 4th Min Jiang-class mine laying ships. The vessels are being built for the Republic of China (ROC) Navy.
USS America Now Steaming Near South China Sea Standoff
– USNI News – USS America (LHA-6) is steaming towards waters in the South China Sea where a Chinese government survey ship and its China Coast Guard escorts are in an international maritime dispute with Malaysia.
Defense Department study calls for cutting 2 of the US Navy’s aircraft carriers
– Defense News – An internal Office of the Secretary of Defense assessment calls for the Navy to cut two aircraft carriers from its fleet, freeze the large surface combatant fleet of destroyers and cruisers around current levels and add dozens of unmanned or lightly manned ships to the inventory.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has higher-range anti-warship missiles
– Defense News – Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard announced Monday that it has significantly upgraded the range of its anti-warship missiles.
French Navy Final D’Entrecasteaux-Class BSAOM Vessel ‘Dumont D’Urville’ Enters Active Service
– Naval News – The French Navy (Marine Nationale) fourth and final d’Entrecasteaux-class vessel, “Dumont d’Urville”, entered “active duty” on April 17, 2020.
How Donald Trump Should Make China Pay for Coronavirus
– National Interest – James Holmes writes that suppose, for the sake of argument, that Chinese researchers did release the coronavirus into the populace, spawning effects we have all come to know personally and intimately. And let’s assume it was an inadvertent release. That is a safe assumption. What should Trump do about it?
Indian Navy will considering buying Refurbished Kilo Submarines from Russia
– Indian Defense Research Wing – Russia has communicated an offer of selling three old Kilo-class hulls for the Indian Navy to tide over its shortfall of conventional submarines. The $1.8 billion “three plus three” arrangement bundles refits of three of India’s Kilo-class submarines with an additional three old Russian navy Kilo-class hulls.
(Thanks to Alain)
U.S. Privateering Is Legal
– USNI Proceedings – Issuing letters of marque presents international legal risks—some real, others imagined—but these are manageable.
Unleash the Privateers!
– USNI Proceedings – The United States should issue letters of marque to fight Chinese aggression at sea.
Enhancing deterrence and defence on NATO’s northern flank
– RAND – Allied perspectives on strategic options for Norway.
Clausewitz, Corbett, and Corvettes
– CIMSEC – Russian appetite for serious mischief-making in the north is, thankfully, considered to be low. But it should prompt us to widen our peripheral vision – to the Mediterranean, the near east, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific, where we do in fact see a lot more maritime activity.
Preparing for the unknown, Norway bolsters its Armed Forces
– Barents Observer – There are forces that want to weaken unity in Norway, as well as between western countries, Prime Minister Erna Solberg underlined as she on Friday presented her government’s new long-term plan for the Armed Forces.
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