The War Zone – One Block V Virginia class submarine will be unlike any other, capable of highly specialized intelligence and sabotage missions on the seafloor.
Chinese Army Drones Target Unmanned Surface Vessels in Exercises
USNI News – The People’s Liberation Army Ground Force trained last week to use armed drones against unmanned surface vessels.
Drone Sightings Are Happening At Diego Garcia, America’s Remote Strategic Island Outpost
The War Zone – The sightings highlight concerns about drone attacks from the sea, especially at a time of extreme hostility between Iran and the U.S.
Marines Learn to 3D Print Raiding Craft, Attack Drones in the Western Pacific
USNI News – Marines are learning how to 3D print raiding craft and attack drones while in theater as part of recent exercises in Hawaii, Japan and South Korea.
Chinese Components In Royal Navy’s New Drone Boat Raise Cyber Security Concerns
The War Zone – The issue highlights supply-chain risks amid growing concerns over Beijing’s cyber access to Western military capabilities.
Spain’s Naval Aviation Crossroads: The F-35B, the Harrier, and a Capability Gap
Naval News – Keeping fixed-wing naval aviation alive will force Spain to choose between paying the price of continuity, and accepting that the retirement of the Harrier will leave the Spanish Navy without carrier-based fighters for a generation.
New Organization New Rules: Information Warfare Can Thrive in the New OPNAV
CIMSEC – NAVADMIN 123/26 affords the Information Warfare Community a once-in-a-generation chance to overhaul its officer career paths and shift attention to resourcing and requirements, changes that would yield significant long-term benefits for both the community and its personnel.
HMCS Moncton and HMCS Edmonton part of a NATO mine countermeasures mission
ReadyAyeReady – Canadian coastal defence vessels HMCS Moncton and HMCS Edmonton are currently operating in European waters as part of a NATO mine countermeasures mission, with a recent port call in Kirkwall, Orkney, underscoring efforts to protect critical subsea infrastructure amid heightened concerns over potential threats.
Russian Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines Are Now Cocooned In Nets
The War Zone – From recent satellite imagery, the Russian Navy now looks to be using nets to protect submarines from drone attacks at a highly strategic base on the country’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.
USS Theodore Roosevelt Is The First Carrier With A Drone Control Center Ready For MQ-25 Stingray Ops
The War Zone – While Theodore Roosevelt is ready now, the Navy is not aiming to start flying the MQ-25 operationally until 2029, years behind schedule.
China Maritime Report #57: Sailing Thousands of Miles Without Losing Course: The Roles and Authorities of the PLAN Party Standing Committee
China Maritime Studies Institute – The Navy Party Standing Committee (NPSC) is the Chinese Navy’s core leadership body, but it does not operate independently; it functions within the broader Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and PRC military hierarchy.
The thin grey line: Britain’s dwindling frigate force holds the line in the Euro-Atlantic
Navy Lookout – HMS Somerset has returned to Devonport this week after around four months on Operation CETO, while HMS St Albans has taken over this key anti-submarine standing commitment. The low-key handover comes as the frigate fleet reaches its smallest size in decades, with just five Type 23s left in commission.
Jet-Powered JDAM Production Is A Go For The U.S. Navy
The War Zone – Putting JDAM-LR into production will give the Navy an important new stream of lower-cost standoff munitions for its carrier air wings.
Russia’s Drone Machinations: Reflexive Control and Cognitive Warfare in the Maritime Domain
CIMSEC – Originating in 1960s Soviet strategic military doctrine, reflexive control (RC) allows the user to employ and orchestrate manipulative tactics, including disinformation, deception, overload, provocation, and distraction, to compel adversaries to voluntarily adopt courses of action favorable to the user’s interests. Since the intensification of the Ukrainian-Russo War and NATO’s extended support to Ukraine, Russia has attempted to reconfigure the environment’s balance of power and assess the limit of the alliance’s collective deterrence.
CMSI Translations #34: Research on Integrated Defense Against Precision Strikes by the Powerful Enemy at Sea
China Maritime Studies Institute – The United States has initiated substantive preparations for high-end warfare and continues to exert coercive pressure on China. Drawing on insights from over a dozen localized conflicts, this article analyzes the US military’s strike capabilities, operational patterns, and systemic ground vulnerabilities. Grounded in the concepts of resilience and survivability, systems-based confrontation, and tiered defense, it proposes targeted operational principles, countermeasures, and strategic recommendations for countering precision strikes by the powerful enemy.
First Trump-class Battleship Could Cost $23.4B, Says CBO
USNI News – The first Trump-class battleship (BBG(X)) could cost about $23 billion with an overall cost for the 15-ship program to be about $275 billion, according to a new Congressional Budget Office estimate published on Wednesday.
Royal Navy demonstrates Wildcat helicopter controlling aerial drones
Navy Lookout – The RN has successfully demonstrated a secure network allowing helicopters, drones and ground forces to operate together across more than 200 miles, marking another significant step towards its future Hybrid Navy concept.
P-8 Poseidon Crews Controlling MQ-4C Triton Drones Becoming A Reality
The War Zone – The P-8A and MQ-4Cs were designed to work in concert, but direct in-flight control of Tritons will open new tactical possibilities and greatly extend the Poseidon’s reach.
Restoring Americas Maritime Dominance in the Western Hemisphere
CIMSEC – The United States should designate the U.S. Coast Guard as its lead agency for maritime security in the Western Hemisphere. In military command and control terminology, this would make the Coast Guard the “supported” service with all other armed services and federal agencies as “supporting” services. Such a designation would reverse the customary approach for the Navy to lead at sea, but this reversal is long overdue.
Houthis To Expand Shipping Attacks To Northern Red Sea
The War Zone – The Houthi rebels of Yemen say they are widening the scope of their attacks on Saudi shipping to the northern Red Sea to prevent transits through the Suez Canal.
The Maritime Leg of China’s Naval Deterrent is Coming of Age
RUSI – China’s test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile on 6 July reveals that its drive to truly assure second-strike capability is maturing.
Official documentary reveals PLA Air Force intelligent strike-planning system; experts say it sharpens coordinated combat, shortens strike cycle
Global Times – China’s state broadcaster has aired footage of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force’s intelligent strike-planning system, showing more than 100 tactical units conducting coordinated strikes with split-second precision after it passed its final live-fire test. Chinese military experts said the technology reflects the PLA’s accelerating shift from platform-centered operations toward AI-enabled, system-of-systems warfare.
Italian Navy boards tanker from Russian shadow fleet
Euronews – The Italian navy has boarded a Russian tanker in international waters off Pantelleria, an island located between Sicily and Tunisia. The operation was carried out as part of an arms and oil trafficking monitoring mission with the support of a Greek vessel and a Polish maritime patrol aircraft.
(Thanks to Alain)
Northern Fleet conducts multiple missile launches near Norway in the Barents Sea
Barents Observer – The Russian Navy has carried out a large-scale live-fire exercise simulating the defence of the Kola Peninsula against a seaborne attack, deploying submarines, surface warships, fighter jets and coastal missile systems.
U.S. Navy orders 188 more torpedo-armed mines to hunt submarines
Defence Blog – The U.S. Navy has placed its biggest order yet for an underwater weapon nobody has ever seen and designed to sit silently on the seafloor for months, waiting for an enemy submarine to wander close enough to torpedo without warning.
(Thanks to Alain)
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