– War is Boring – The U.S. Navy has begun testing a new, radar-evading, air-launched anti-ship missile — a big step forward in the sailing branch’s march toward a more lethal fleet. In the next few years, the Navy could add three new ship-killing weapons to its warplanes and surface ships, augmenting existing Harpoon missiles that began entering service in 1977 and today are badly outclassed by Chinese- and Russian-made designs.
Step by Step, Here’s How to Fight and Defeat China
– War is Boring – Strategic interdiction focuses on depriving Beijing of energy resources.
Inside the Pentagon’s Manhunting Machine
– The Atlantic – Sean Naylor provides a brief history of special operations, from Panama to the war on terror.
With new paint and grease, Navy tries to lengthen subs’ life
– Associated Press – As it tries to get the most out of each of its $2.6 billion attack submarines, the U.S. Navy is finding a lot depends on the right paint job.
Japan Launches Latest Helicopter Carrier
– USNI News – Japan has launched the second in its new class of helicopter carrier — the largest Japanese ships since World War II — in a Thursday ceremony in Yokohama.
North Korea’s Ongoing Massive Submarine Deployment Is Worrisome
– Foxtrot Alpha – After what was seemingly a three week march toward war between North and South Korea, which ended in an agreement followed by handshakes, smiles and supposedly a draw-down in both sides war-time footing, one question still remains — where is the majority of North Korea’s submarine fleet?
Osprey readiness a challenge years after troubling report
– Military Times – The Marine Corps has made strides to improve standards for the MV-22B Osprey nearly two years after a report found unsettling evidence the service was deploying squadrons that were not mission-ready. But some problems persist due to high operational demand and a lack of resources.
USS Fort Worth is one sleek warship
– USA Today – The first thing you notice when you step aboard this sleek new warship is that there aren’t many sailors — but almost all are doing double duty.
Norfolk-Based Helo Squadron Tests APKWS Rocket Guidance System
– USNI News – APKWS “fills in a very important part of the lethality gap in (the MH-60S’s) weapons footprint,” hitting a sweet spot between the AGM-114 Hellfire missile and unguided 20mm cannons and 2.75-inch rockets.
Seoul detects 50 North Korean subs leaving bases
– Korea Times – Fifty North Korean submarines have left their bases since Saturday, hours before high-level inter-Korea talks took place at the truce village of Panmunjeom the same day.
Understanding Japan’s Shifting Defense Policy
– USNI News – The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed major changes in Japan’s defense policy, with strong implications for the United States and U.S. armed forces in the Pacific. The changes, designed to shift Japan away from an isolated, pacifistic defense posture to a more dynamic one based on bilateral and even multilateral relationships, are controversial but not uncommon to most nations.
Well, Here’s One Way to Stop a Swarm of Iranian Attack Boats
– War is Boring – The U.S. Navy appears to have a new low-cost plan to counter Iran’s fleet of speedboats.
How the Philippines Plans to Revive a Former US Naval Base
– The Diplomat – Amidst the tensions generated by China’s development of artificial islands in the South China Sea, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Voltaire Gazmin reiterated the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) plan to rehabilitate the air and naval facilities in Subic Bay Freeport in the central part of the mainland island of Luzon.
Hamas claims to nab Israeli spy dolphin
– Times of Israel – Islamist group’s naval unit says it captured mammal equipped with espionage equipment, including cameras.
Marines Adding Tanks, Artillery to Black Sea Rotational Force to Reassure Against Russian Threat
– USNI News – The Marines are shaking up their force in Europe, adding a one-of-a-kind Combined Arms Company to the Black Sea Rotational Force to train with local partners and allies on anti-tank capabilities.
U.S. Navy Seeks Better Sub-Hunting Technology to Counter Putin
– Bloomberg – The U.S. Navy wants to upgrade its ability to detect Russian submarines in response to assertive naval moves by President Vladimir Putin.
The Navy is seeking to deploy a sophisticated surveillance device made by Lockheed Martin Corp. in the Atlantic Ocean. The device, towed by a ship, already is in use in the Pacific. As soon as mid-2016, the service also wants to send to the Atlantic a prototype networked “undersea sensor system” that “addresses emergent real-world threats.”
A Short History of the U.S. Navy’s Most Secretive Submarine
– War is Boring – USS Jimmy Carter is an underwater spy.
Largest Chinese, Russian Joint Pacific Naval Exercise Kicks Off This Week
– USNI News – The navies of China and Russia will meet this week for the two countries largest ever naval exercise in the Pacific.
No, Russia Isn’t Building a Giant New Aircraft Carrier
– War is Boring – Russian media reported in early 2015 that the Kremlin is preparing blueprints for a huge new aircraft carrier to replace the Russian navy’s current flattop, the relatively small and aged Admiral Kuznetsov. But Moscow’s new carrier is likely to remain a paper concept. A quarter-century after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russia lacks the money, expertise and industrial capacity to build aircraft carriers.
Next Exit: Joint Information Environment
– USNI Proceedings – Proponents of the newest method for putting information technology and networks to best military use must build a superhighway to the future, not the past—or even the present.
Don’t Call it a Comeback
– Air Force – The Air Force isn’t rebalancing to the Pacific. It never left.
Keeping Our Asymmetric Edge
– USNI Proceedings – Congress must take a strong position in promoting naval innovation.
The Deadly Future of Littoral Sea Control
– USNI Proceedings – In an age of precision-strike weapon proliferation, a big-ship navy equals a brittle fleet. What’s needed is a revamped force structure based on smaller surface combatants.
Capability-Based Planning and the Death of Military Strategy
– USNI – In the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, released days before the September 11 attacks, the Department of Defense announced a shift in approach—one that had been trickling through DOD since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Billed as “a new defense strategy and an associated risk management framework,” the emerging addition to the defense planning lexicon was a “capabilities-based approach.”
USS Ashland Returns To Saipan With Supplies To Restore Water, Power To Island
– USNI News – Marines and sailors from the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD-48) returned to Saipan in the Northern Marianas with heavy equipment to restore power and water purifiers to provide as much as 40,000 gallons of drinking water after the island was devastated by a typhoon last week..
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