War on the Rocks – The United States has a need for military surveillance, but the most valuable forms of surveillance are costly and require significant resources. To address this, the U.S. military and its allies could scale up from the fundamental thesis of China’s maritime militia and outsource maritime surveillance in select locations vis-à-vis merchant shipping. Such a bold maneuver would enable a great increase in surveillance (in desired locations) at a fraction of what it costs to increase military vessel procurement. Using these vessels for surveillance only, all the way up to the beginning of a conflict, would spare the West from the same international finger wagging that China often receives.
US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked tanker
BBC – A US Navy warship has captured armed men who seized an Israeli-linked tanker off the coast of Yemen on Sunday
Adding firepower to the Type 26 Frigate
Navy Lookout – BAE Systems recently unveiled a proposal to add additional VLS cells to the Hunter class frigates being built for the Royal Australian Navy. Here we examine the background to the requirement for more missiles and the potential opportunities for Type 26 customer nations.
Chinese Submarine Is First To Exploit New Stealth Technology
Naval News – China’s latest non-nuclear submarine, the Type-039C Yuan Class, features a distinctive angled sail. We can now be confident that this is part of a sonar stealth technology. Other countries are also pursuing this general technique, but China is the first to field it.
Second depth gauge saved UK Vanguard nuclear sub diving dangerously low, defense minister says
Breaking Defense – A senior UK defense minister told lawmakers today that a Royal NavyVanguard-class submarine carrying Trident nuclear missiles was saved from sinking to a dangerously low depth after its crew used a back up depth gauge to keep the vessel diving within safe limits.
Marines Perfect Maritime Domain Awareness, Coastal Defense in Joint Philippines Exercise
USNI News – After 11 days of drills, U.S. Marines and Philippine forces wrapped up the seventh iteration of the KAMANDAG Marine exercise in Manila over the weekend.
USS Thomas Hudner Downs Multiple Drones Launched from Yemen
USNI News – USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) shot down multiple one-way attack drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen.
Stealthy New Warship Design Emerging At Shipyard In China
Naval News – New combatant features striking stealthy design and likely much improved capabilities over existing corvettes, but exact nature of effort remains uncertain.
MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Delays, Risks Come Into View
War Zone – A top Pentagon watchdog has raised concerns that the U.S. Navy is pushing ahead too fast in its plans for the MQ-25 Stingray tanker drone, and inviting new risks in doing so, in a new report.
Falkland Islands are British! UK sends warning to Argentina as Navy warship sent to region
Daily Express – Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has delivered a message of defiance to the new Argentinian president after he promised to “get the Falklands back”.
Integrating Developments from Industry for Robust Acoustic Intelligence
Center for Maritime Strategy – Industry has demonstrated that scalability, endurance, and real-time data processing and dissemination must be bedrock characteristics of future ACINT system of systems. The outstanding challenge for the Navy is to identify and promote the right mix of legacy and industry development.
U.S., Philippines Begin Three Days of Joint Patrols in the South China Sea
USNI News – On Nov. 21, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, in coordination with the Armed Forces of the Philippines, began joint maritime and aerial patrols in the South China Sea.
Indian Navy Needs More Submarines. Underwater Challenge From Rival Navies Rising
ABP – The Indian Navy’s submarine capability projection for 2030 doesn’t look promising. India requires more submarines to meet the deepening underwater challenge from the rival navies.
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RAND: What The U.S. Navy Really Needs, By Dr. Bradley Martin
Naval News – RAND Corporation’s Dr. Bradley Martin, a retired U.S. Navy captain, and Director, Institute for Supply Chain Security, returns to answer a Naval News question, “What does the U.S. Navy really need in the future?”
UK nuclear-armed submarine suffered malfunction
BBC – A Royal Navy nuclear submarine suffered a “concerning” malfunction while diving.
Italian MoD’s Defence Planning Document 2023-2025: New Naval And Joint Programs
Naval News – Among the new programmes which are launched to achieve these goals in the changing worldwide geostrategic scenarios, the DPP 2023-25 highlights increasing attention towards the underwater dimension with the project to enforce the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities through emerging and disruptive technologies, with specific reference to the robotics and unmanned systems.
RAND: What The U.S. Navy Really Needs, By Dr. Scott Savitz
Naval News – RAND Corporation’s Senior Engineer, Dr. Scott Savitz, returns to answer a Naval News question, “What does the U.S. Navy really need in the future?”
China navy used sonar pulses against divers, Australia says
BBC – Australia has accused China’s navy of using sonar pulses in an incident in international waters that resulted in Australian divers suffering injuries.
Aircraft carriers aren’t the Russian navy’s only problem. It has also struggled for decades to build jets for them
Business Insider – Despite operating aircraft-carrying ships for more than a half-century, Russia has struggled to build effective fixed-wing jets for those ships to carry into action.
U.K. Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales Launches, Recovers Mojave Drone
USNI News – A new American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landed and took off for the first time from an aircraft carrier during HMS Prince of Wales’ (R09) trials off the East Coast.
US Navy upgrading torpedoes, leveraging cloud computing for submarines
Defense News – The U.S. Navy is pushing new technology to its undersea fleet to make it safer, smarter and deadlier, while also nearing a major step in developing its next-generation attack submarine.
First Sea Lord answers questions about Royal Navy readiness levels
Navy Lookout – As part of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee enquiry into armed forces readiness, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Ben Key gave some insight into the current availability levels of the RN fleet. Here we consider the discussion and some of the nuances and context that were overlooked.
U.S. Marines Stand Up New Littoral Regiment
USNI News – The Marine Corps formally established its second littoral regiment, converting the Japan-based 12th Marine Regiment into the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment (MLR) at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, on Wednesday, in line with its modernization efforts under the Force Design 2030 plan.
UK Carrier Strike Group completes second phase of 2023 deployment
Navy Lookout – The Autumn Carrier Strike Group deployment has now wrapped up with HMS Queen Elizabeth returning to Portsmouth. Here we summarise the activities during the second phase of the deployment.
Uncharted waters: Navy navigating first-ever dismantling of nuclear-powered carrier
Breaking Defense – The challenges for the Navy to dispose of the former USS Enterprise have driven the service to stand up a new office to deal both with “The Big E” and the pipeline of Nimitz-class carriers to come.
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