– US Coast Guard – The U.S. Coast Guard is sorely in need of these ships, especially as competition heats up in the Arctic region.
Allies Diplomatic Note To Moscow: 2 Carriers, 7 Ships, 1 Ambassador
– Breaking Defense – While two carriers attracting most of the attention, a smaller US footprint is being established between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, where Russia — and Turkey — are raising concerns.
USS America Will Allow Japan-Based Marines to Bring More MV-22 Ospreys to Sea
– USNI News – The Japan-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is already considering how next year’s arrival of new amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) will affect operations in the forward-deployed amphibious force.
Battle Force Missiles: The Measure of a Fleet
– CIMSEC – Calculating the power of a fleet is a daunting and imprecise task…
Marines Folding F-35B into New Pacific Island-Hopping Concept
– USNI News – The Marine Corps is learning how to incorporate its new F-35B Joint Strike Fighter jets into its island-hopping concept of Expeditionary Advance Base Operations, with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit rehearsing this concept recently in the Pacific.
Maritime Air Power: The Neutral Battleground
– RAF CASPS – The importance of maritime air operations and the characteristics desired in a maritime patrol aircraft.
Britain’s Caribbean Naval Mission
– USNI News – One of three British Bay-class landing ships has spent nearly two years in the Western Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea, both looking after British interests as well as finding ways to partner with the U.S. Navy.
A Bomber For the Navy
– CIMSEC – Rather than sending the B-1 Lancer into early retirement, the Department of Defense could transfer it to the Navy for duty as a land-based ship-killer. Considering its speed, range, payload, and flexibility to employ the new Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), the B-1 is an ideal candidate for rebirth as a Sea Control Bomber.
Preparing for a Digital Pearl Harbor
– USNI Blog – Can we learn to do any better if the next surprise attack comes in cyberspace?
Coast Guard Pledges To Manage Russia, China in Arctic
– Breaking Defense – The Coast Guard wants to operate more consistently in the Arctic, but has a fraction of the icebreakers that Moscow can deploy.
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Mission to Africa
– USNI News – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Thetis (WMEC-910) is halfway through a 90-day mission to Africa’s Atlantic coast and already the crew has helped enforce fishing rights, combat smuggling and piracy and rescue two fishermen who had been declared dead.
How Does the Next Great Power Conflict Play Out? Lessons From a Wargame
– War on the Rocks – The United States can win World War III, but it’s going to be ugly and it better end quick, or everyone starts looking for the nuclear trigger. That is the verdict of a Marine Corps War College wargame I organized that allowed students to fight a multiple great state conflict last week.
Why Does China Suddenly Want Nuclear Icebreakers?
– National Interest – Beijing wants to join the race for Arctic resources and trade routes.
Could The U.S. Navy’s War Plan Orange (For Fighting Japan) Be Used Against China?
– National Interest – Dust it off and put it to use? One of the world’s great naval minds has some ideas.
The First Submarine of Indonesian Construction Has Been Launched
– AST Center – The Indonesian state shipyard PT PAL in Surabaya, after repeated postponements, held the launching of the first built in Indonesia diesel-electric submarine Alugoro. (In Russian)
(Thanks to Alain!)
The Navy’s Last Active Duty P-3C Orion Squadron Is On Its Final Deployment
– War Zone – Nearly six decades after the first Orions entered service, the Navy is getting close to retiring the P-3C from active duty for good.
China to show new warships as Beijing flexes military muscle on navy anniversary
– Reuters – China will show off new warships including nuclear submarines and destroyers at a parade next week marking 70 years since its navy’s founding, a senior commander said on Saturday, as Beijing flexes its increasingly well-equipped military muscle.
China militarizing deep sea
– Washington Times – Space and cyberspace are not the sole domains for China’s growing asymmetric warfare programs. The Chinese military has another development program only recently disclosed that is part of the decadeslong buildup of weapons and forces: deep sea.
The U.S. Navy’s P-8 Poseidon Patrol Plane Has a Neat Feature: Tracking Land Targets
– National Interest – The APS-154 transforms the P-8 into a surface-surveillance platform similar to the U.S. Air Force’s E-8 radar plane.
U.S. Advance and Russia’s Deep Concerns: The Operations Center in Ochakiv
– USNI Blog – Russia has been carefully observing the activities of the U.S and British navies in the Black Sea region. It protested through diplomatic channels that the main thrust of Sea Breeze 2018, a Black Sea exercise with Ukraine, was anti-Russian. And according to the Russian Institute of Strategic Research, it was not a coincidence when after Sea Breeze 2017, the United States revealed plans to build a maritime operations center in Ochakiv, a small city located between Crimea and Odessa at the mouth of the Dnieper River.
U.K. Developing its Own Extra Large UUV for Royal Navy
– USNI News – Britain’s Ministry of Defence is exploring options for the development of an Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) to conduct covert missions at distances of up to ranges 3,000 nautical miles for three months at a time for the Royal Navy.
China’s Arctic Policy and its Potential Impact on Canada’s Arctic Security
– CIMSEC – China’s Arctic policy has to be examined in the context of its domestic politics and its geopolitical and geostrategic concerns.
Navies, companies push for torpedo-killing torpedoes
– Defense News – Naval forces worldwide are pushing the idea of anti-torpedo torpedoes, with varying success, aiming to translate the promises of missile defense technology into undersea warfare.
Adapting Command and Control for 21st Century Seapower
– CIMSEC – As the United States winds down from two regional land conflicts that have dominated the 21st century, great power competition with China and Russia rightly dominates defense planning and operations. Consequently, American seapower must once again evolve to meet the challenges of sustaining America’s prosperity and security in a multi-polar world. No element of modern seapower is more worthy of evolution than the operational relationship between the Navy and Marine Corps, and this essay asserts that the 21st century approach to command and control (C2) of these forces must embrace the integrated approach offered by the Joint functional commander concept and its maritime instantiation, the Joint Forces Maritime Component Commander (JFMCC).
F-35B Allowed Essex ARG to Flex New Blue-Water Capabilities in Absence of Carrier Nearby
– USNI News – The F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is not only changing the way Marine forces conduct their missions, it is also changing the way the amphibious navy can do its work in the absence of an aircraft carrier.
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