– USNI News – The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers and F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters are spearheading a revival of British sea power unparalleled since the end of the Second World War.
On the Decline of European Naval Power: A Conversation With Jeremy Stohs, Part 2
– CIMSEC – More from Jeremy Stohs.
Olenya Guba
– Covert Shores – Fresh satellite imagery recently made available on Google Earth confirms that Russian Navy’s Beluga Whale pens have been moved to a stable position near the entrance of the Olenya Guba (Оленья Губа) secret submarine base near the Kola Peninsula. These pens were most likely involved in the whale which turned up in Norway in May. Additionally they confirm that the special mission host submarine BS-64 Podmoskovye returned to its home base of Olenya Guba very shortly after the Losharik submarine accident on July 1st.
(Thanks to Alain)
US Navy makes a major breakthrough in autonomous weaponry
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy has achieved a major milestone in its efforts to autonomously combat one of the most persistent threats it faces.
USS Bataan, 26 MEU Join Coast Guard for Aid Mission in the Bahamas a Week After Dorian
– USNI News – Over the weekend, amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5) joined the international effort delivering supplies, transporting U.S. relief personnel and providing medical evacuations from the Bahamas a week after Hurricane Dorian slammed into the island nation.
Navy Claims a Strong Technical Foundation Ahead of Testing New Classes of Unmanned Ships
– USNI News – The Navy has a more straightforward path to developing and fielding unmanned surface vessels than many critics realize, according to the admiral in charge of building them.
A Navy Astray: Remembering How the Fleet Forgot to Fight
– CIMSEC – The following is adapted from remarks delivered at the annual CIMSEC Forum for Authors and Readers, covering the “How the Fleet Forgot to Fight” article series.
Watch Japan’s Giant US-2 Amphibious Flying Boat Land In An Amazingly Short Distance
– War Zone – The US-2 may look like one of the flying boats of yesteryear, but it is actually a very modern aircraft with some remarkable features.
Are Navies Dying?
– National Interest – Those pesky carrier-killer missiles, new detection methods that can ‘unsteatlh submarines’ and other threats loom large. Is the age of warships, submarines and aircraft carriers over?
The Russian Navy: A Submarine Powerhouse?
– National Interest – Will Moscow have the funds to keep an elite force under the waves?
On the Decline of European Naval Power: A Conversation With Jeremy Stohs, Part 1
– CIMSEC – The decline of European naval power can provide insight into the evolution of Europe’s naval forces since the end of the Cold War.
Remote Navy Submarine Test Base Has Been Key In Rescuing Hundreds In The Bahamas After Dorian
– War Zone – The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued hundreds of people across the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian using helicopters operating from a little known and secretive U.S. Navy submarine test base situated on one of the islands in the archipelago.
Elderly British woman rescued from rubble in Bahamas
– Sky News – RFA Mounts Bay is providing humanitarian assistance in the Bahamas.
The State of LCS: Navy Moving to Add Firepower, Capability to Both Classes
– USNI News – With both variants of the Littoral Combat Ship in serial production at two yards and those ships now kicking off an enduring multi-ship overseas presence, the Navy is turning its focus to increasing the lethality and survivability of the hulls.
Marine Boss’s Audacious Plan To Transform The Corps By Giving Up Big Amphibious Ships
– War Zone – The bold vision of a USMC that is far less dependent on the lumbering “Gator Navy” comes with a sacrificial offering of the force’s most sacred cow.
The State of LCS: Navy Pushing More Ships to Sea This Fall as Class Matures
– USNI News – Five years from now, there may be as many Littoral Combat Ships deployed as there are destroyers.
The U.S. Navy just deployed its new ship-killer missile to China’s backyard
– Defense News – It can travel more than 100 nautical miles, passively detect an enemy through imaging stored in its computer brain, and can kill a target so precisely that an operator can tell it to aim for a specific point on the ship – the engine room or the bridge, for example. And it’s heading to China’s stomping grounds.
Navy Wants to Make Surface Fleet Training Harder with More Live, Virtual Opposing Forces and Ranges
– USNI News – As the Navy continues to inject more live, virtual and constructive events to prepare ships’ crews to defeat potential threats, surface warfare training officials are looking to add more realistic adversaries and tougher scenarios via virtual training.
The Commandant’s Planning Guidance, Part II
– Traditional Right – The new Marine Corps Commandant, General David H. Berger, has issued his Planning Guidance, which gives his commander’s intent for the next four years. As I wrote in my last column, it is a positive, even exciting, document that offers hope the Marine Corps can reshape itself to do what its doctrine of maneuver warfare requires. That said, it also raises questions in several important respects.
It’s Time to Talk About A2/AD: Rethinking the Russian Military Challenge
– War on the Rocks – America’s strategy community has a problem that it likes to call “A2/AD,” and while the symptoms are very real, in the case of Russia strategists and planners have largely misdiagnosed the nature of the challenge.
USS Wasp Heading to U.S. in Homeport Shift; USS America Goes to Japan Later This Year
– USNI News – After less than two years forward-deployed, big deck amphib USS Wasp (LHD-1) has left Japan.
Surface Forces Striving for ‘Combat-Ready Ships, Battle-Minded Crews’
– USNI News – The head of the Navy’s surface force is pushing the fleet to be more ready for high-end combat, both in the skills of the crew and the material condition of the ships.
The Fleet Problem Exercises: An Investment in the Future
– CIMSEC – Innovation and experimentation are never free and rarely cheap, but the Fleet Problems of the Interwar Navy offer a successful case study of how to go to sea to prepare for war even with limited resources.
Why the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands are Like a Toothpaste Tube
– War on the Rocks – Consisting of five core islands and several minor features in the East China Sea, the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands (Japan calls them Senkakushotō, while the China uses the name Diaoyudao) are not much in terms of size — the biggest is only a bit larger than New York City’s Central Park. But they loom large as a potential cause of armed conflict — if not war – between the region’s major powers.
Undersea Surveillance: Supplementing the ASEAN Indo-Pacific Outlook
– CIMSEC – Successful tracking foreign submarines would make the ASEAN Outlook more valid in the Indo-Pacific geostrategic landscape.
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