Sgt.Squarehead Posted November 3, 2017 Report Share Posted November 3, 2017 Not sure if this has been covered, somewhat detailed account of USS McCain collision: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/11/02/sailors-driving-the-mccain-were-not-qualified-to-be-on-watch-navy-says/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted November 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 https://warontherocks.com/2017/11/somethings-wrong-surface-fleet-arent-talking/ Interesting article talking about different systemic issues with the USN than what the reports about the McCain/FitzGerald incidents are talking about. I think this quote is particularly interesting: "Most training is completely outside the purview of the ship captain, his boss, or Adm. Rowden. The Navy’s vast array of schoolhouses plan out five years in advance. And they plan for available seats based on arcane math and incantations. They do not plan out based on Fleet need. If there are 300 ships who need four sailors trained to Navy Enlisted Classification Code 24601 for four-year sea tours, then annual throughput needs to be at least 300. If the Navy only has 250 seats because of physical plant capacity or budget, then the fleet is left with a shortfall and the school commanders are not held accountable for the discrepancy. One historical solution is to reduce the requirement. In the Navy Enlisted Classification 24601 example, reducing the ship requirement from four to three solves the school throughput problem. Everything looks great on paper, but the ship ends up |manned to 75 percent of what it was intended to have in that particular code. Multiply that by 20, 30, or even 100 and you end up with ship’s playing five card draw with three cards." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted November 12, 2017 Report Share Posted November 12, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 MADEX 2017: South Korea Developing a Supercavitating Torpedo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted November 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2017 Oh shit. Argentina has lost contact with one of its submarines. http://www.janes.com/article/75782/argentina-loses-contact-with-one-of-its-submarines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted November 18, 2017 Report Share Posted November 18, 2017 20 hours ago, Belesarius said: Oh shit. Argentina has lost contact with one of its submarines. http://www.janes.com/article/75782/argentina-loses-contact-with-one-of-its-submarines Still no sign, which is concerning - if it were on the surface it ought to be easier to find. Not being on the surface isn't terrible news, the ocean off the coast of argentina looks to be about 100m deep for quite some distance from the land so it's not impossible that they're sat on the sea floor awaiting rescue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted November 18, 2017 Report Share Posted November 18, 2017 oh my god us navy get your shit together http://time.com/5030829/uss-benfold-tug-boat-collision/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted November 18, 2017 Report Share Posted November 18, 2017 On 11/17/2017 at 5:17 PM, Belesarius said: Oh shit. Argentina has lost contact with one of its submarines. http://www.janes.com/article/75782/argentina-loses-contact-with-one-of-its-submarines HMS protector, an icebreaking hydrographic survey vessel, has joined the search: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2017/november/18/171118-protector-joins-submarine-search-2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted November 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 2 hours ago, LostCosmonaut said: oh my god us navy get your shit together http://time.com/5030829/uss-benfold-tug-boat-collision/ To be fair, this one wasn't their fault. It was a TUGEX, and the tug lost power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted November 23, 2017 Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 Bad news for the argentinian sub: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-42100620 Quote San Juan submarine: 'Explosion' dashes crew survival hopes Hopes that the 44 crew of a missing Argentine submarine might still be alive have been dashed after the navy said an event consistent with an explosion had been detected. The "abnormal, singular, short, violent, non-nuclear event" was recorded in the south Atlantic by a nuclear test watchdog last week. CTBTO press release here According to the NOAA, that region is about 800m deep - it sounds like the sub lost depth control, and the sea floor was too deep for them to settle on it in one piece Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted November 23, 2017 Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 One of the monitoring stations wot heard it was only turned off properly a few months ago: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted November 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 Updated timeline on the ARA San Juan disaster. https://news.usni.org/2017/11/29/water-entered-missing-argentine-sub-snorkel-detected-explosion#more-29667 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted December 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 Russian submersible has a blurry image of a 60m long object resting on the sea bottom at 477m below sea level near where the San Juan was last reported. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/argentina-chasing-lead-search-missing-submarine-51535765 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted December 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 Iron Dome anti-rocket system mounted and test fired on an Israeli corvette. https://www.defencetalk.com/israel-mounts-iron-dome-battery-on-warship-military-70868/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Britain can into supercarrier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-42256046 Quote The Queen has officially welcomed the UK's new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, at a ceremony to commission it into the Royal Navy fleet. The monarch boarded her namesake ship in Portsmouth to see the Royal Navy White Ensign raised on the vessel for the first time. The biggest&baddest helicopter carrier around, until 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 39 minutes ago, Xlucine said: Britain can into supercarrier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-42256046 The biggest&baddest helicopter carrier around, until 2020 Well STOBAR will never have the same capability than CATOBAR, so even when the F-35B will be a thing (it will be at some point) the HMS Queen Elizabeth will merely remain a "Porte Aéronefs" and not a full fledged "Porte Avions" I can understand the reasoning that even with a reduced range or payload the aircraft launched from a STOBAR can still defend the aero-naval group and that the F-35 have a greater effective range than what the specs suggest, since it can fly straight to the objective without risking being detected. But not being able to launch an AWACS is a big blow to the credibility of an aero-naval task force, since it will be much more vulnerable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Heli-AWACS: http://www.janes.com/article/67041/uk-orders-crowsnest-helicopter-radar-systems Alzoc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 7 minutes ago, Xlucine said: Heli-AWACS: http://www.janes.com/article/67041/uk-orders-crowsnest-helicopter-radar-systems Isn't an heli based system much less capable than a plane based system? I am thinking about the max detection range, and the max altitude (which correlate to area coverage AFAIK). Still much better than nothing though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 The UK has found some spare money to stop harpoon going out of service next year: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/united-kingdom-purchases-harpoon-missile-upgrades-support/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted December 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2017 https://news.usni.org/2017/12/21/electric-boat-awards-newport-news-shipbuilding-468m-to-begin-columbia-class-integrated-product-and-process-development Ohio follow on class contract issued. "General Dynamics Electric Boat awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding a contract worth up to $468 million to begin work on integrated product and process development for the upcoming Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine, according to an HII news release this week." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted December 22, 2017 Report Share Posted December 22, 2017 http://www.hisutton.com/Yugo_X-Craft.html Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juretrn Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 22 hours ago, LoooSeR said: http://www.hisutton.com/Yugo_X-Craft.html You can come and have a look at the inside of a "Una" class submarine in Slovenia's Park of military history: LoooSeR and Xlucine 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Japan is considering refitting the Izumo helicopter carrier so that it can land U.S. Marines F-35B stealth fighters, government sources said on Tuesday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 Quote On December 22, 2017, the first VTV1 channel of Vietnamese state television showed a report about the first launch of the Club-S anti-ship missile 3M54E (an export version of the Caliber-PL complex) with one of the new large diesel-electric submarines of Project 06361 of the Vietnamese Navy. https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3019678.html From 3:33 Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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