– Navy Times – The flip-flop of two carrier deployments has revealed the Achilles’ heel of the latest deployment plan — designed to make ship schedules more predictable — before it was even able to get started.
Chinese Navy – Relax, China’s Aircraft Carrier Is Fine
– The Diplomat – Reports of Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning’s death are greatly exaggerated.
Russian Navy – Improved Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Kazan to Deliver in 2016
– USNI News – The Russian Navy is set to take delivery of an improved Project 885M Yasen-class attack submarine in 2016 according to Russian state media. The new vessel, named after the city of Kazan, incorporates many improvements to the lead Project 855 boat, K-329 Severodvinsk, which was commissioned earlier in 2014.
US Navy – George H.W. Bush Strike Group Leaves 5th Fleet, Returns Home in November
– USNI News – The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (CSG) has left U.S. 5th Fleet headed home after seven months of supporting air operations in the Middle East.
US Navy – Hull Based on San Antonio Design is Navy’s Preferred Option for Next Generation Amphib
– USNI News – Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has signed an internal memo recommending the service base its next generation amphibious warship (LX(R)) on the existing San Antonio-class (LPD-17) warship design.
Norwegian Navy – The Russian Military Despises This Strange Wedge Shaped Spy Ship
– FoxtrotAlpha – When it was launched it looked like nothing else. Its pizza slice-like design made it one of the most stable ships for its size and it has since spawned a whole new class of crazy looking vessels. Yet this clandestine spy ship is most notorious in Russia, whose military absolutely detests its existence. Meet Norway’s Marjata, one of the most advanced spy ships in the world.
Russian Navy – U.S. Navy Impressed with New Russian Attack Boat
– USNI News – One of the U.S. Navy’s top submarine officers was so impressed with Russia’s new Project 885 nuclear attack boats that he had a model of K-329 Severodvinsk built for his office.
Swedish Navy – Lessons from Sweden’s Sub Hunt
– USNI News – The search for a mystery submersible says much about the state of the Swedish navy in particular, and European fleets in general. It should also prompt a new effort to address the need for high-end warfighting capabilities across European navies.
US Navy – U.S. Command Ship Leaves Black Sea
– USNI News – The U.S. command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) has left the Black Sea after several port calls with allies in the region.
Chinese Navy – China’s Navy Is Already Challenging the US in Asia
– The Diplomat – The PLAN already contests maritime Asia with the United States.
Chinese Navy – Deep Threat
– Wall Street Journal – China’s submarines add nuclear-strike capability, altering strategic balance.
Chinese Navy – “Not an Idea We Have to Shun”: Chinese Overseas Basing Requirements in the 21st Century
– National Defense University – This paper addresses China’s expanding international economic interests, which are likely to generate increasing demands for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) to operate out of area to protect Chinese citizens, investments, and sea lines of communication. The frequency, intensity, type, and location of such operations will determine the associated logistics support requirements, with distance from China, size and duration, and combat intensity being especially important drivers.
Swedish Navy – Mysteries of the deep – what’s been lurking in the Baltic Sea?
– BBC – Sweden spent the past week trying, unsuccessfully, to find a foreign submarine thought to be lurking in its waters. But on Friday, having scoured the coast, the Swedish military called off the search. So what’s going on in the Baltic?
US Navy – Navy Forges New EW Strategy: Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare
– Breaking Defense – The Navy is crafting a battle plan to retake control of the electromagnetic spectrum, which the Pentagon’s chief of research says we’ve lost.
US Navy – Navy eyes new anti-ship missile
– Navy Times – It’s been nearly 40 years since the Navy started its relationship with the Harpoon missile, but now the service seems to have eyes for another surface-to-surface anti-ship missile: A younger, more agile Norwegian.
US Navy – Experts Question US Navy’s Decision To Swap Out DDG 1000’s Secondary Gun
– Defense News – Bigger often means better, especially when the discussion is about one gun versus another. But a decision to replace a secondary weapon on the US Navy’s new Zumwalt-class destroyer with a smaller gun caliber is raising some eyebrows within the surface warfare community.
Swedish Navy – Sweden submarine search called off
– BBC – The Swedish military has called off its week-long search for a suspected submarine in the sea south of Stockholm, officials say.
Indian Navy – Coming to the Indian Ocean, the Chinese Navy: How Should India Respond?
– National Interest – Chinese submarines prowling South Asia’s briny deep? No longer is this some hypothetical prospect. A nuclear-powered People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 093 Shang-class attack boat was sighted cruising regional waters last winter. Indian naval proponents long maintained that Beijing would cross a redline if it dispatched nuclear subs to the Indian Ocean. It would set Sino-Indian maritime competition in motion—a seesaw process with unforeseeable repercussions.
US Navy – Inside the Navy’s Secret Swarm Robot Experiment
– Defense One – Much of the discussion and fear of armed unmanned vehicles ignores a central fact. Aerial drones like the Predator or Reaper are operated by two-man human teams, a pilot to steer the drone and a sensor operator to control the various mechanical eyes and ears. The boats that participated in the event on the James River were able to sense one another as well as other vessels, and execute complicated “swarm” maneuvers, with a bare minimum of guidance. These boats are not your average drones.
Swedish Navy – Swedes Could be Searching for Covert Russian Midget Sub
– USNI News – The mystery submersible spotted in Swedish waters near Stockholm on Friday could be one of a handful of Soviet-era midget submarines operating from a mother ship in the Baltics and not likely a larger Russian Navy submarine.
Swedish Navy – Swedish search for ‘foreign sub’ focuses on Ingaro Bay
– BBC – Naval vessels searching Swedish waters for a suspected foreign submarine are focusing on a bay near the capital Stockholm on the fifth day of the biggest such operation in years.
Geopolitics / North East Asia – Asian Cold War: Escalating Conflict in North-East Asia Bigger Threat Than War on Terror
– Epoch Times – The world may be focused on the “war on terror”, but the arms build up in North-East Asia poses a far greater threat to global stability, says Professor Desmond Ball.
Swedish Navy – Sweden steps up ‘mystery sub’ hunt off Stockholm waters
– BBC – The Swedish navy has stepped up its search in the waters off Stockholm amid suspicions that a Russian submarine might be in trouble there.
US Navy – USS America: The Navy’s Newest Flattop Can’t Decide What The Hell It Is
– Foxtrot Alpha – As part of San Francisco’s Fleet Week festivities, the US Navy had a high-profile commissioning ceremony for the USS America LHA-6, the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name and the first in a new class of amphibious assault ships that are really more like aircraft carriers, yet somehow, compromised as both.
Chinese Navy – China’s Aircraft Carrier Trouble—Spewing Steam and Losing Power
– War is Boring – There’s no more of a conspicuous and potent symbol of China’s growing naval power than the aircraft carrier Liaoning. But the 53,000-ton, 999-foot-long carrier could be dangerous to her crew and prone to engine failures. If so, that makes the vessel as much of a liability as an asset to Beijing.
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