- MIT Security Studies Program Working Paper – By Owen Cote and highly recommended! This paper will assess the undersea balance between the U.S. and China by comparing their relative abilities to accomplish their respective undersea warfare objectives. I will assess both the current balance, and how it might evolve in the future. In the [...]
Monthly Archives:: July 2011
Chinese Navy – China says rebuilt aircraft carrier for research
- Associated Press – China officially acknowledged Wednesday that it is rebuilding an aircraft carrier bought more than a decade ago, but says the refurbished ship will be used only for research and training – a strong indication it plans to build carriers of its own.
Geopolitics / Yemen – Yemen on the Brink of Hell
- Geopolitics / New York Times Magazine – If Ali Abdullah Saleh and his generals believe they can defeat protesters, they are taking an enormous risk.
US Navy – Budget Storm Could Sink U.S. Plan to Rule Sea and Sky
- Wired- Back in 2009, the Navy and the Air Force secretly shook hands on a new way to work together to fight future wars against major powers. It’s called AirSea Battle, and not much about it has been made public. But the Air Force’s second in command publicly fretted on Wednesday that some of [...]
Chinese Navy – China Details Anti-ship Missile Plans
- Aviation Week – For more than a century, surface warships have been struggling to survive against mines, submarines, aircraft and, more recently, cruise missiles. Now China’s rapid development of a sophisticated anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) raises the threat to a new level.
US Navy – Navy's beleaguered San Antonio has another setback
- Virginian Pilot – The $2 billion warship experienced problems with all four of its engines – forcing one to be shut down – on a recent training mission. The Navy still expects to begin a 20-week, pre-deployment training on schedule in August.
US Navy – Hornet Hypoxia
- Defense Technology International – What’s been reported elsewhere is that investigators have focused on pilot hypoxia (lack of oxygen) as the primary cause for the November 16 crash of an F-22 operating from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, and in particular on the functioning of the onboard oxygen generating system (Obogs). What hasn’t been [...]
US Navy – U.S. warships arrive in Vietnam
- CNN – Three U.S. Navy ships arrived Friday – as welcome guests – at the Vietnamese port of Da Nang.
US Navy – AirSea Battle Must Not Work Alone
- US Naval Institute Proceedings – The Navy’s new doctrine should include several related operational concepts for planning and executing future conflicts.
Chinese Navy – China’s top general calls U.S. naval exercises inappropriate
- Washington Times – Beijing’s top military leader on Monday called for U.S. forces to halt joint naval exercises with China’s neighbors in the South China Sea and issued a string of complaints about U.S. policy after meeting his U.S. counterpart.
Chinese Navy – What if China attacked the Spratlys?
- Mindanao Examiner – The question in everybody’s mind is: What if China attacked the Spratlys? And if so, can the Phillipines survive a Chinese attack?
Editorial – NOSI service restored
Service at NOSI.org has been restored, and all posts dating back to June 27th are now visible on the home page at http://www.nosi.org. Please visit NOSI and catch up on the last 2 weeks of posts that I had made but that were not visible to you due to a software mix-up after a server [...]
Chinese Navy – How to Track China’s Naval Dreams
- The Diplomat – Is the talk around the port of Gwadar a sign that China is considering a string of pearls strategy? Anti-air missile batteries will be the first sign.
Chinese Navy – Chinese UAV May Conduct Targeting for Ballistic Missiles
- Defense Technology International – U.S. analysts are already suggesting that the new Chinese UAV design — with its 60,000-ft. cruising altitude, 300-mi. radar surveillance range and, possibly, lower radar reflectivity if made from the right composites — could serve as the targeting node for China’s anti-ship ballistic missiles.
Chinese Navy – China Sea Dispute Looms Large in U.S. Visit
- Wall Street Journal – Tensions in the disputed waters of the South China Sea threaten to distract Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a visit to China intended to build on a recent thaw in bilateral military ties.
Royal Navy – Aircraft carriers: NAO fear over defence review change
- BBC – The National Audit Office has expressed deep concern about changes to the Royal Navy’s two new aircraft carriers made in the 2010 defence review.
US Navy – 'Hands-free' landing is a step toward unmanned naval flight
- Virginian Pilot – The Navy moved a step closer to unmanned carrier-based aerial combat last weekend when a modified F/A-18D Hornet made its first carrier touchdown without a pilot’s guiding hands.
Miscellaneous – Acoustic 'cloaking device' shields objects from sound
- BBC – Scientists have shown off a “cloaking device” that makes objects invisible – to sound waves.
US Navy – U.S. Navy Radar Testing Center Goes Dark
- Aviation Week and Space Technology – Even on an island of unique buildings anchoring the premiere U.S. Navy maritime testing grounds for the service’s most sophisticated air and ballistic missile defense radar systems, the building that those here call the “Taj Mahal” stands apart, gleaming eggshell white near the ocean’s edge.
French Navy – Gowind Day
- Defense Technology International – I don’t know whether horizontal rain and deep puddles are auspicious for ship naming ceremonies but if they are then DCNS’ latest creation, the Adroit first-of-class Gowind ocean patrol vessel (OPV) is a lucky ship indeed.
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