– Daily Telegraph – Britain is to forge ahead with a new generation of nuclear weapons with a £1bn contract to be unveiled this week.
Russian Navy – Russia 'sending warships to Syria'
– Daily Telegraph – Russia is preparing to send two amphibious assault ships to the Syrian port of Tartus. The move is seen as an attempt to ensure the safety of Russian nationals stationed at the strategic naval base Moscow operates on Syria’s Mediterranean coast.
Dutch Navy – Dutch Reinforce Ocean Shield
– Defense Technology International – The Dutch parliament yesterday approved reinforcements of NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield counterpiracy mission while delaying a decision to expand the EU’s parallel Operation Atalanta until after parliamentary elections in September.
Indian Navy – Navy to dispatch four warships on overseas deployment
– Times of India – In keeping with its steadily growing blue-water capabilities, the Navy is now all set to dispatch four warships on an overseas deployment to the Horn of Africa, Red Sea and the western Mediterranean, even as four of its other warships entered the Shanghai port in China on Wednesday.
Chinese Navy – Firepower bristles in South China Sea as rivalries harden
– Reuters – In the early years of China’s rise to economic and military prowess, the guiding principle for its government was Deng Xiaoping’s maxim: “Hide Your Strength, Bide Your Time.” Now, more than three decades after paramount leader Deng launched his reforms, that policy has seemingly lapsed or simply become unworkable as China’s military muscle becomes too expansive to conceal and its ambitions too pressing to postpone.
Royal Navy – Cutting missile system leaves warships at risk
– Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy’s warships will be vulnerable to enemy attack after a key project that allows ships to fire each other’s weapons was dropped.
Indian Navy – INS Vikramaditya Out for Sea Trials
– Defense Technology International – The Indian Navy may start preparing to get into service the second aircraft carrier. On June 8, INS Vikramaditya left Russia’s Sevmash shipyard in Severdvinsk to head for its first sea trials. According to Sevmash, the trials will take 124 days. They will start in the White Sea, then the ship will sail further north, to the Barents Sea to test its air wing. Despite the fact that India has already trained the crew staff for Vikramaditya, during the trials the carrier will be operated by Russians accompanied by Indian Navy inspectors
Chinese Navy – 5 Things the Pentagon Isn't Telling Us About the Chinese Military
– Foreign Policy – Here’s what you won’t find in the Defense Department’s latest report on China’s military rise.
Reposted – I fixed the link to this article. Thanks to Terry for mentioning it to me!
US Navy – 20,000 colleagues under the sea
– The Economist – Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography (and warfare).
US Navy – The China syndrome
– The Economist – AirSea Battle is now the Pentagon’s priority, but it has its critics
Dutch Navy – Yo Ho Dolfijn!
– Defense Technology International – The Royal Netherlands Navy submarine Hr. Ms. Dolfijn returned to the port of Den Helder on 1 June after a three-month deployment as part of NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield counter-piracy mission off the Somali coast.
US Navy – Big powers jockey in the Pacific
– BBC – The US has been, is, and will continue to be a Pacific power. That was the fundamental message the US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta brought to this year’s Asian security summit in Singapore.
US Navy – How will new Submarine Sensors and Payloads Influence Naval Warfare in the 21st Century?
– Information Dissemination – Excellent article by Owen Cote on the future of undersea warfare.
US Navy – US Navy hopes stealth ship answers a rising China
– Associated Press – A super-stealthy warship that could underpin the U.S. Navy’s China strategy will be able to sneak up on coastlines virtually undetected and pound targets with electromagnetic “railguns” right out of a sci-fi movie.
Information Warfare – Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
– New York Times – From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.
US Navy – Submarine fire could have ripple effects for fleet
– Virginian Pilot – The Navy is evaluating whether it’s worth spending millions of dollars to repair the Miami, the nuclear-powered submarine damaged in a fire in a Maine shipyard.
Information Warfare – Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network
– Wired – A look at how cyberwar was waged by Libya against its citizens.
US Navy – Leon Panetta: US to deploy 60% of navy fleet to Pacific
– BBC – The US is planning to move the majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has revealed.
Chinese Navy – 5 Things the Pentagon Isn't Telling Us About the Chinese Military
– Foreign Policy – Here’s what you won’t find in the Defense Department’s latest report on China’s military rise.
US Navy – US defence chief Panetta urges naval strength in Asia
– BBC – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has emphasised the importance of a strong US naval presence in Asia, on the eve of a trip to the region.
Intelligence – Navy dismisses Google's alarm over ship-tracking
– Virginian Pilot – When a top Google official came to Virginia Beach last week to speak at a respected defense conference, he delivered a stunning and convincing message: The company is on the verge of unveiling a project that could reveal to the public the precise locations of many ships at sea, including U.S. Navy ships.
Geopolitics / Vietnam – The Vietnam Solution
– The Atlantic – Robert D. Kaplan on how a former enemy became a crucial U.S. ally in balancing China’s rise
Indian Navy – Indian Aircraft Carrier Sea Trials Postponed Until June
– Indian Navy – Indian Aircraft Carrier Sea Trials Postponed Until June – Sea trials of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier being overhauled for the Indian navy at the Sevmash shipyard in northern Russia have been postponed until the beginning of June.
Royal Navy – New milestone as huge Royal Navy warship section sets sail
– Daily Telegraph – The ”largest and most powerful warship” ever built for the Royal Navy has achieved another milestone as a massive section of HMS Queen Elizabeth left port.
Intelligence – US Naval War College's Strategic Research Department Weekly Maritime News Survey
– US Naval War College’s Strategic Research Department Weekly Maritime News Survey – This is a great naval news source I just learned of, which is updated each Monday.
Thanks to Jim for the link!
NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence™ 
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