– Epoch Times – James Fanell, Former intelligence chief of the U.S. pacific fleet challenges the conventional wisdom that the U.S. military is unsurpassed by any force on this planet. While acknowledging that the Chinese military has strategic vulnerabilities, he warns that the U.S. might go to war with China over Taiwan in the next 30 years not adequately prepared and not confident to win.
DARPA’s latest mad science experiment: A ship designed to operate completely without humans
– Defense News – The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched its newest foray into unleashing robot warships on the world’s seas: NOMARS.
Russian Navy’s Top Officer Says Shadowy Zircon Hypersonic Missile Has “Childhood Diseases”
– War Zone – The missile, details about which are scant, has at least some development hurdles to overcome and is still years away from entering service.
Navy Will Commission All Expeditionary Sea Bases as USS Warships
– USNI News – The Navy will now commission all of its Expeditionary Sea Base ships to allow them to conduct a broader and more lethal mission set, compared to original plans for them as Military Sealift Command ships with a USNS designation.
Lincoln Strike Group CO: Record Deployment Marks New Uncertainty for Fleet
– USNI News – The 3,000 sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) arrived at their new California homeport this morning having spent more time deployed than any carrier since the mid-1970s – 294 days.
Is 2020 Really 1940 for the U.S. Navy?
– National Interest – To a degree, anyway. Back then naval grandees, administration officials, and lawmakers discerned grave dangers gathering along the Western European and East Asian rimlands and resolved to rebuild American military might to manage them. Today naval grandees, administration officials, and lawmakers discern grave dangers gathering along the East Asian rimland and are saying the right things about rebuilding American maritime might to manage them.
China’s most advanced destroyer the Nanchang formally enters service in ‘leap forward’ for navy
– South China Morning Post – Ship is the first Type 055 guided missile destroyer to be commissioned into the PLA Navy and is one of the most advanced warships of its type in the world.
China to stop building Type 056 corvettes as navy shifts focus to larger vessels
– South China Morning Post – The PLA Navy has started ordering bigger warships as it starts to prepare for missions further away from its shoreline.
Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt Leaves San Diego for Indo-Pacific Deployment
– USNI News – Family and friends said goodbye on Friday to more than 6,000 sailors with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, which is leaving for a scheduled deployment to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command region.
War In The Taiwan Strait Is Not Unthinkable: Some Will Lose More Than Others
– Journal of Political Risk – Whether anyone actually ‘wins’ a war is a philosophical debate. The Germans and Japanese in 1945 might have thought wars do indeed have winners. But perhaps it’s better said that in most conflicts some parties ‘lose more than others.’ Such would be the case if Beijing attempted to militarily subjugate Taiwan.
Expeditionary Hogs and Blue Water Bones
– USNI Blog – While the composition of the surface combatant force is frequently discussed, the composition of Marine air wings and land-based Navy platforms remains relatively unexamined. This is partly due to the success of the P-8A and the tri-service initial operating capability of F-35s. However, both Marine Corps air wings and Navy Tactical Air have glaring capability holes, which could be filled by repurposing Air Force platforms. The U.S. Navy should acquire B-1s and Marine Corps A-10s. This acquisition is both tactically and operationally advantageous, is fiscally sound, and logistically achievable in the near term.
Australian defense leaders defend submarine buy with France’s Naval Group
– Defense News – Australian defense leaders this week denied claims that their department was urged to consider alternatives to the navy’s plans of buying 12 large conventionally-powered submarines from France’s Naval Group.
Test of Ready Reserve Force Exposes Need For Newer Ships, More People
– USNI News – When U.S. Transportation Command tested the ability of the nation’s maritime Ready Reserve Force to set sail on short notice, only about 40 percent of the vessels deemed ready were able to leave port.
Northern Fleet aviation to get new sub hunters
– Barents Observer – The rebuilt version of the passenger aircraft Tu-204/214 will be Russia’s equivalent to the U.S. built Boeing P-8 Poseidon that Norway, among others, will deploy for surveillance flights over the Barents- and Norwegian Seas.
Marine Commandant: ‘The Farther You Back Away From China, They Will Move Toward You’
– Breaking Defense – The Marine Corps is moving out on a new land-based missile designed to hold Chinese warships at bay.
Navy may arm new destroyer with conventional missile able to hit anywhere on Earth in an hour
– Fox News – The Navy’s newest destroyer may fire a not-yet-to-be fielded Conventional Prompt Strike conventionally-armed missile engineered to hit anywhere on earth within an hour.
Rep. Gallagher: U.S. Needs More Agile Forces in the Pacific
The Marine Corps could soon take out enemy ships with Navy missiles
– Defense News – The Marine Corps could soon get the Navy’s new Naval Strike Missile for use as a shore battery.
To combat new missile threats, the US Navy prepares to move forward with destroyer upgrades
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy is preparing to give its Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyers a major radar upgrade, trading in the AN/SPY-1D for a scaled-down version of the SPY-6 radar destined for the Flight III destroyers.
With US Marines seeking unmanned logistics to fight China, Textron sees opportunity
– Defense News – The U.S. Marine Corps is looking for long-range unmanned surface vessels to resupply Marines on islands scattered around the Pacific, and Textron Systems thinks it has a solution.
Why are Chinese fishermen finding so many ‘submarine spies’?
– BBC – At first it seems like a quirky, what-are-the-chances-of-that headline: “China rewards fishers who netted foreign spy devices.”
The two US Navy littoral combat ships will soon share a brain
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ship is less one ship as it is two completely different ships with a common mission set. The Navy is trying to walk some of that back.
The Navy is ready to acquire the new U-212 submarines
– Inside Over – It seems that an important first step has been taken towards the renewal and enlargement of the underwater component of the Italian Navy. (In Italian)
(Thanks to Alain)
Here’s 5 things you should know about the US Navy’s plans for big autonomous missile boats
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy’s yearlong fight to convince lawmakers it needed a significant investment in unmanned ships the size of offshore patrol vessels resulted in a kind of half-victory.
Littoral Combat Ship Will Field Laser Weapon as Part of Lockheed Martin, Navy Test
– USNI News – The Navy will put a laser weapon on a Littoral Combat Ship for the first time this year, amid efforts to boost the LCS’s lethality and to develop and field a family of laser systems.
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