– BBC – The USS Michigan has arrived in South Korea, amid worries of another North Korean missile or nuclear test.
LCS Frigate: Delay A Year To Study Bigger Missiles?
– Breaking Defense – The Navy needs to delay a year before awarding the roughly $9 billion contract for the upgraded frigate version of the Littoral Combat Ship, because it needs more time to thrash out cost estimates and detailed designs, says congressional watchdog GAO.
Japanese warships join with carrier Vinson on exercises
– Defense News – Two Japanese destroyers joined up with the Carl Vinson carrier strike group in the Philippine Sea Sunday for renewed bilateral exercises, the Japan-based U.S. Seventh Fleet announced. The Vinson is headed north for the Sea of Japan in an expression of U.S. resolve as North Korea continues to develop offensive ballistic missiles with nuclear capability.
Coming Full Circle: The Renaissance of Anzac Amphibiosity
– US Naval War College Review – While the Australian Defense Force and New Zealand Defense Force maintain a relatively high level of interoperability, further enhancements in the area of amphibious capability could be achieved through greater integration, specifically through emulating the model adopted by the United Kingdom / Netherlands Amphibious Force (UKNLAF).
Expanding the ROKN’s Capabilities to Deal With the SLBM Threat From North Korea
– US Naval War College Review – This article considers the options open to the Republic of Korea’s Navy, in the context of its maritime cooperation with the US Navy, to deal with the new intractable North Korean SLBM threat.
Blunt Defenders of Sovereignty: The Rise of Coast Guards in East and Southeast Asia
– US Naval War College Review – What is the role of coast guards in the realm of territorial disputes? Until ten years ago or so, few policy makers in East and Southeast Asia had to grapple with this question, because regional navies, not coast guards, were the central actors asserting sovereignty in disputed areas.
Gulf of Guinea Maritime Security in 2016
– CIMSEC – 2016 witnessed a marked increase in maritime security incidents over the previous year, irrespective of the counting standards. Denmark-based Risk Intelligence counted 119 verified attacks by criminals on all kinds of vessels in West Africa (Senegal to Angola) – compared with 82 in 2015. The vast majority of attacks in 2016 were perpetrated by Nigerian criminals, including all of the 84 that were concentrated in and around Nigerian waters.
Burn After Reading
– The Intercept – The Snowden documents reveal scope of secrets exposed to China in 2001’s EP-3 incident.
South Korea To Consider New Maritime Patrollers
– Aviation Week – The North Korean submarine threat looked bad enough after the torpedoing of a South Korean corvette in 2010. It has looked a good deal more serious since, as North Korea has worked to deploy nuclear ballistic missiles in submarines. All of this is making a South Korean program to buy additional maritime patrollers a rising priority. The likely contenders are now the Boeing P-8 Poseiden and Saab’s proposed Swordfish, based on the Bombardier Global 6000. The navy has dropped a plan to buy and refurbish 16 Lockheed Martin S-3 Vikings, shifting its focus to the possible order for new aircraft.
7 Revolutionary Hardware Changes the US Navy Should Make in the Trump Era
– Warzone – Under the new administration the Navy could maximize a planned budget increase and tailor its force to 21st century demands.
The Four Plus One and Global Mega Trends
– CIMSEC – General John Allen outlines the threats the US will face in the future.
Navy Considering More Hulls for Frigate Competition, Expanding Anti-Air Capability
– USNI News – The Navy is considering increasing its future frigate’s anti-air firepower and may open up the frigate design competition to hulls beyond the current two small surface combatants.
Singapore To Buy Maritime Aircraft, UAVs
– Aviation Week – Singapore is likely to field at least five new maritime patrollers in the early 2020s, markedly raising its ability to deal with submarines at a distance while also bolstering ocean surveillance capacity. The aircraft will replace five Fokker 50 Enforcers acquired in the early 1990s, say sources with insight into the requirement. A supplementary force of unmanned aircraft for maritime patrol is also under consideration.
15 Questions With One of VP-5’s ‘Mad Foxes’ on Flying the P-8 Poseidon
– The Drive – We talk with a P-8 pilot about how the jet is rapidly maturing into one of the Pentagon’s most versatile and in-demand assets—one that has now been deployed to most of the major hotspots around the globe.
Japanese warships to join US fleet near North Korea as tensions rise
– The Guardian – Japan is preparing to send several warships to join a US aircraft carrier strike group heading for the Korean peninsula, in a show of force designed to deter North Korea from conducting further missile and nuclear tests.
Hainan’s Maritime Militia: Development Challenges and Opportunities Part 2
– CIMSEC – As it works to improve its maritime militia, Hainan Province is engaged in multiple lines of effort.
Things have gone from bad to worse at the Navy’s flight school
– Navy Times – The head of naval aviation has extended a three-day grounding of all the Navy’s T-45 training jets indefinitely after a group of instructor pilots refused to fly the aircraft.
US Navy considers a more powerful frigate
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy is taking a hard look at upgrading its future frigates to protect other ships from anti-air threats in addition to defending against undersea and surface enemies. The move would be a significant enhancement in the effort to develop a frigate from existing littoral combat ship designs.
Russia Sends More Warships Toward Syria Following U.S. Tomahawk Strikes
– USNI News – A Russian Navy surface action group is headed to the Eastern Mediterranean departing shortly after a U.S. Tomahawk missile strike on a Syrian airfield.
Royal Marines to lose 200 posts
– The Guardian – The Royal Marines will lose 200 posts as the Royal Navy seeks to reshuffle its staff before the arrival of a new generation of vessels.
Hijacked ship’s crew rescued from pirates near Somalia
– BBC – Nineteen crew members have been freed by the Chinese Navy from a ship captured by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
US warships deployed to Korean peninsula
– BBC – The US military has ordered the USS Carl Vinson Strike Group to move towards the Korean peninsula, amid growing concerns about North Korea’s missile programme.
Duterte and generals split on China rapprochement
– Nikkei Asian Review – High stakes internal battle under way over direction of Philippine foreign policy.
Austal Pushes Big Missiles For Small Ships: LCS & VLS
– Breaking Defense – How much firepower can fit on the Navy’s smallest warship? With the Chinese and Russian navies on the rise, American admirals want more “distributed lethality” from everything in the fleet, especially the controversial Littoral Combat Ship.
South China Sea: Duterte orders Philippines military to occupy islands
– CNN – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he has ordered military personnel to occupy all Philippines-claimed islands in the disputed South China Sea.
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