– Janes – Russia will supply three Admiral Grigorovich-class (Project 11356M) frigates to India that were originally intended for the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet.
Panning for Gold – Assessing Chinese Maritime Strategy From Primary Sources
– US Naval War College Review – This article seeks to describe the range of sources available for helping to understand Chinese maritime strategy and to assess their relative value.
Navy, Marines put V-22 to the Test in Carrier Experiment
– USNI News – Ten days into a two-week fleet battle experiment on this aircraft carrier off the California coast, the Navy is getting a good look at how the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor can fit into flight and deck operations of its carrier fleet. So far, the outlook is promising.
Marine Harriers Strike ISIS Targets in Libya from USS Wasp
– USNI News – Marine AV-8B Harriers operating from USS Wasp (LHD-1) have struck ISIS targets Libya.
NATO’s New Role – The Alliance’s Response to a Rising China
– US Naval War College Review – As Sino-American security competition increases, it is reasonable to expect that China will try to divide the United States from key NATO members through diplomatic and economic means. Members of the transatlantic community should anticipate this challenge and be prepared to meet it. In doing so, the normative aspect of the alliance can play a key role.
This is Russia’s new unique underwater drone for Arctic waters
– Barents Observer – A series of unmanned underwater vehicles (UAV) for both research and military purposes are under development.
Gaming Distributed Lethality
– USNI News – “We have to stop thinking of adversary maritime forces as ‘threats’ and instead what they really are: ‘targets’ for our increasingly lethal, distributed surface, amphibious, and submarine forces,” Dr. William Bundy, director of the Gravely Group at the Naval War College, asserted during a recent interview…
Proposed US military buildup on Guam angers locals who liken it to colonization
– The Guardian – Proposal to bring an additional 5,000 marines to territory already 28% occupied by US military stirs frustrations – but many support the idea in a ‘fragile’ economy.
Labour ‘saddled Navy ships with dodgy engines’
– Daily Telegraph – The former Labour Government ignored concerns about the reliability of the engines for the Royal Navy’s most powerful warships in order to buy from a British manufacturer, a former head of Britain’s Maritime Warfare Centre has said.
America Is Hacking Other Countries With Stealthy Submarines
– Washington Post – Did you know that the military uses its submarines as underwater hacking platforms?
The UN’s Permanent Court of Arbitration Ruling With Captain James Fadell
– CIMSEC – A discussion on the UN’s Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling on territorial disputes in the South China Sea with one of the China-watching community’s best known, most respected, and outspoken voices, retired U.S. Navy Captain James Fanell.
Israel Navy Readies for Third-Generation USV
– Defense News – The Israel Navy is planning to deploy a new generation of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) based on a US-built combat craft and remote-control technologies and subsystems developed by state-owned Rafael. Once deployed by the middle of next year, they will complement manned surface ships in multiple missions, including defense of Israel’s economic waters, anti-mine and anti-submarine warfare.
French Navy Might Begin South China Sea Patrols this Year
– China Topix – Warships of the French Navy (the “Marine nationale”) are expected to begin patrols of the disputed South China Sea, perhaps by as early as this year, as the government of President François Hollande seeks to enforce its defense of the rules based international order.
NATO Not Ready As Russian Sub Threat Rises
– Breaking Defense – The balance of power underwater is shifting against the West, warns a new report from the Center for Strategic & International Studies. Both Russian and NATO capabilities cratered after the Cold War, but the Russian submarine fleet is clawing its way back — and we’re not ready to face it, CSIS says. The US, its allies, and the Nordics need to invest in new technology, intense training, and, above all, closer cooperation to counter the resurgent threat.
What if the Ocean Was Transparent?
– The Economist – The ability to peer unhindered into the deep would reveal a host of wonders—and have huge practical consequences.
LCS Fort Worth’s Return Journey Brightens
– Defense News – The outlook earlier this year for the homeward journey of the littoral combat ship Fort Worth was grim. The damage from a January 12 pierside incident in Singapore seemed to be severe, bad enough that it was a question whether any the ship’s four main propulsion engines could be brought online…
Russian Sub Activity on the Rise in North Atlantic
– USNI News – While Russian submarine activity in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas and the North Atlantic are at their highest levels since the end of the Cold War, its navy has only started to be resourced and its undersea fleet, while “a pocket of competence,” remains small.
The Baltic Sea and Current German Naval Strategy
– CIMSEC – With the deteriorating relations between the West and Russia in the wake of Crimea’s annexation and the hybrid war in Eastern Ukraine since early 2014, the Baltic Sea is suddenly thrust back into the spotlight of naval planners, policy analysts, and students of strategic geography alike. This article lays out some principles of looking at the Baltic Sea through the lens of the German Navy, which – while busy conducting a host of maritime security operations (MSO) in such far-flung places as the Horn of Africa, the coast of Lebanon, and the Central Mediterranean for more than two decades – finds itself returning conceptually to one of its home waters.
New Rounds For Old Guns Could Change Missile Defense for Navy, Army
– USNI News – The Pentagon’s office tasked with tweaking existing and developing military technology for new uses is pushing development of ammo meant for the electromagnetic railgun for use in existing naval guns and artillery pieces. The initiative will recast existing weapons as potential air defense platforms through a change in ammunition.
Navy’s $12.9 Billion Carrier Isn’t Ready for Warfare, Memo Says
– Bloomberg – The U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier isn’t ready for warfare.
The $12.9 billion USS Gerald R. Ford — the most expensive warship ever built — may struggle to launch and recover aircraft, mount a defense and move munitions, according to the Pentagon’s top weapons tester.
U.S. ship visit set to end standoff with New Zealand over nuclear policy
– Reuters – The U.S. Navy plans to send a ship to New Zealand in November, Prime Minister John Key said on Thursday, formally ending a standoff over the Pacific nation’s anti-nuclear policy that dates back more than 30 years.
UK nuclear submarine collides with merchant vessel off Gibraltar
– BBC – One of the UK’s newest nuclear-powered submarines has docked in Gibraltar after a collision with a merchant vessel during a training exercise.
Can China Enforce a South China Sea Air-Defense Identification Zone?
– USNI News – Is China about to declare an Air-Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the South China Sea? And how effectively would it be able to enforce such a zone?
PLAN’s Wu to CNO Richardson: Beijing Won’t Stop South China Sea Island Building
– USNI News – The head of the People’s Liberation Army Navy told his U.S. counterpart that China has no intention of stopping its island building campaign in the South China Sea Spratly Islands.
Naval frigate on way back after patrol mission near Spratlys
– Focus Taiwan – The Lafayette-class Di Hua frigate is on its way back to Taiwan after completing a routine patrol mission in waters near the Spratly Islands.
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