– Associated Press – When a boat springs a leak, it’s often the Coast Guard to the rescue. But who rescues the Coast Guard when one its new ships does the same thing?
Royal Navy – Navy 'forced to drop year-round Somalia piracy patrols'
– Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy no longer has enough warships to dedicate one to fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia all year round, it was reported.
Intelligence – China’s Accidental Spies
– Pacific Standard – Is an unassuming group of Chinese bloggers who are obsessed with military hardware doing the Pentagon’s work? Or Beijing’s?
US Navy – Electronic Blast Slated for Unmanned Attack Aircraft
– Defense Technology International – Most aircraft slated to go onto aircraft carries have to go through an electronic magnetic interference test that bathes the design in about 200 volts per meter. But the test platform for the Navy’s unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (Uclass) aircraft program, will have to endure 10 times the electronic stress. Undoubtedly that means the Navy wants a design for its unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft program that would be able to fire a permanently installed, rechargeable, anti-electronics weapon.
US Navy – Platforms and Upgrades Will Change Electronic Warfare
– Defense Technology International – The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX strike fighter, the EA-18G Growler, an unmanned combat aircraft (currently exemplified by two X-47B test platforms) and a nascent arsenal of specialized air-launched standoff weapons are all part of a new emphasis on exploiting the electro-magnetic spectrum.
Miscellaneous – The Desert One Debacle
– The Atlantic – Mark Bowden writes that in April 1980, President Jimmy Carter sent the Army’s Delta Force to bring back fifty-three American citizens held hostage in Iran. Everything went wrong. The fireball in the Iranian desert took the Carter presidency with it.
Royal Navy – Nowhere To Run
– Defense Technology International – Bill Sweetman describes how if Scotland becomes independent, there may be no place to base the UK’s ballistic missile submarine force.
Information Warfare – People Power 2.0
– Technology Review – How civilians helped win the Libyan information war.
US Marines – Marines prepare to open combat jobs to women
– San Diego Union Tribune – The Marine Corps will begin assigning women to newly opened combat jobs this year, conduct research on their physical capabilities, and in the most striking move, open the infantry officer training course to them, the commandant said in a message to all Marines Monday.
US Marines – U.S. comes to agreement with Japan to move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa
– Washington Post – The U.S. and Japanese governments said Thursday that they will move about 9,000 Marines off Okinawa to other bases in the Western Pacific, in a bid to remove a persistent irritant in the relationship between the two allies.
Chinese Navy – Shoal mates
– The Economist – America’s navy riles China in its backyard
Chinese Navy – How Effective Will China’s Carrier-Based Fighters Be?
– DefenseTech – An exceprt from an analysis of what the J-15 will mean for China’s neighbors written last sumer by DefenseTech’s go to China guru Andrew Erickson.
Chinese Navy – China’s Carrier Fighter Fleet
– DefenseTech – Some photos of China’s entire carrier-based fighter fleet.
Royal Navy – HMS Astute submarine grounding was caused be navigation and planning errors
– Daily Telegraph – A series of errors contributed to the grounding of a nuclear-powered submarine off the west coast of Scotland more than two years ago, a report has found.
Chinese Navy – Recent acitivites around Chinese Shipyards
– Information Dissemination – A catch up on the activities around the different Chinese shipyards.
Vietnamese Navy – Vietnam hosts naval exchange with US Navy
– Associated Press – Vietnam kicked off a weeklong naval exchange Monday with the U.S. Navy, with the former battlefield enemies cooperating amid percolating tensions in the South China Sea with Beijing.
Royal Navy – Reverse thrust
– The Economist – “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” asked John Maynard Keynes. David Cameron might feel like quoting the great economist when he tells Parliament, as now seems almost certain, that the government is reversing its decision to buy the aircraft-carrier version of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, rather than the F-35B variant originally ordered by Labour in the 1990s.
Royal Navy – New warplanes 'less capable', secret paper shows
– Daily Telegraph – Britain’s Armed Forces will be less able to undertake future military operations with the fighter jets ministers are preparing to buy in a cost-saving exercise, secret defence plans have revealed.
US Navy – U.S. Navy Plans Better Ship Maintenance
– Aviation Week and Space Technology – As promised, the U.S. Navy is focusing on taking greater care of its surface fleet, with the release this month of a new manual that details how the service will better maintain most of those ships.
US Navy – Cutting-edge Navy warship being built in Maine
– AP – An enormous, expensive and technology-laden warship that some Navy leaders once tried to kill because of its cost is now viewed as an important part of the Obama administration’s Asia-Pacific strategy, with advanced capabilities that the Navy’s top officer says represent the Navy’s future.
Royal Navy – 'Major milestone' for Royal Navy warship
– Daily Telegraph – The ”largest and most powerful warship” ever built for the Royal Navy is beginning to take shape as two massive sections of HMS Queen Elizabeth were joined together.
US Navy – U.S. Navy Focus Shifts to Asia-Pacific
– Aviation Week – The U.S. Navy’s expanding mission in Asia and the Pacific Ocean is a striking example of early planning turned on its head by changing threats. That upset is now being righted by innovations on the fly.
Chinese Navy – Chinese Navy Employs UAV Assets
– Signal – China’s navy has begun using unmanned aerial vehicles as part of its blue-water operations. At least one type has been photographed by foreign reconnaissance aircraft, and other variants have been reported. Not only has China been displaying an assortment of models at air shows, it also is incorporating advanced U.S. unmanned vehicle technology into current and future systems.
Iran – Our Men in Iran?
– New Yorker – Seymour Hirsch looks at US covert operations in Iran.
Miscellaneous – The Invisible Army
– New Yorker – For foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell.
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