VPZ Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 Russia's only aircraft carrier catches fire; 6 believed injured and 1 missing https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/12/12/europe/russian-carrier-fire-intl/index.html *At this time 11 injured and 3 missing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AssaultPlazma Posted December 13, 2019 Report Share Posted December 13, 2019 Any update on those missing individuals? Hope they're alright.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VPZ Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 Finnish Navy Lifts Veil On Its Future Anti-Ship Missile: The Gabriel V https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2019/12/finnish-navy-lifts-veil-on-its-future-anti-ship-missile-the-gabriel-v/ N-L-M and Ramlaen 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N-L-M Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 I think this is the first non-RUMINT info we've seen on this missile, nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Second Chinese CV (CNS Shandong) officially enter service: Lord_James and Ramlaen 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N-L-M Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 https://defense-update.com/20191120_reshef_class.html Apparently the Israeli Navy signed a deal to design and build replacements for the Saar 4.5 class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted December 26, 2019 Report Share Posted December 26, 2019 https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/12/24/pentagon-proposes-big-cuts-to-us-navy-destroyer-construction-retiring-13-cruisers/ https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/12/24/us-navy-proposes-decommissioning-first-4-lcs-more-than-a-decade-early/ The USN is proposing to; -Retire four additional Ticonderoga cruisers sooner than planned, leaving 9 in service. -Retire the first four LCS. The Freedom, Independence, Fort Worth and Coronado. -Retire three dock landing ships. The Whidbey Island, Germantown and the Gunston Hall. -Cut 5 of the 12 planned Flight III Aleigh Burkes. VPZ and Lord_James 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted January 13, 2020 Report Share Posted January 13, 2020 https://news.usni.org/2020/01/13/littoral-combat-ship-will-field-laser-weapon-as-part-of-lockheed-martin-navy-test USS Little Rock will have a 150kW laser on its next deployment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramlaen Posted January 16, 2020 Report Share Posted January 16, 2020 Zumwalts might get hypersonics. https://defensemaven.io/warriormaven/sea/navy-stealthy-zumwalt-destroyer-may-fire-conventional-prompt-strike-missile-Z-Dp4b6bi0apPxogODb3-A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted January 16, 2020 Report Share Posted January 16, 2020 Info on the plan to upgrade some Flight IIA Burkes with SPY-6. https://news.usni.org/2020/01/15/navy-mulling-installing-an-spy-6-baseline-10-on-legacy-destroyers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramlaen Posted January 18, 2020 Report Share Posted January 18, 2020 https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/sna-2020/2020/01/sna-2020-lockheed-martin-pitching-jagm-for-u-s-navy-lcs/ Quote The Lockheed Martin booth at SNA 2020 features a full scale model of a Joint Air to Ground Missile (JAGM) with a sign reading “JAGM for LCS”. Speaking to Naval News, a Lockheed Martin representative explained that the Longbow Hellfire missile currently deployed aboard USS Detroit as part of the SSMM is no longer in production (and has actually been out of production for a number of years). The current stock of Longbow Hellfire ammunition available to the U.S. Navy is finite and will only be decreasing going forward. The natural replacement of Hellfire is the JAGM and Lockheed Martin hopes that the U.S. Navy will procure the new missile for both existing and future LCS of both variants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted January 21, 2020 Report Share Posted January 21, 2020 https://news.usni.org/2020/01/21/sea-hunter-usv-will-operate-with-carrier-strike-group-as-surfdevron-plans-hefty-testing-schedule The Navy’s experimentation squadron for unmanned surface vessels has big plans for its second year that include integrating the Sea Hunter Medium USV into a carrier strike group and leading a large U.S. Pacific Fleet experiment this summer. Lord_James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Domus Acipenseris Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 War college thesis summarizing naval SAM tech. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a154243.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramlaen Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 https://news.usni.org/2020/01/30/navy-trying-again-on-champ-auxiliary-design-after-white-house-pushback The Navy and industry are taking another crack at designing the Common Hull Auxiliary Multi-mission Platform (CHAMP) in the hopes of reducing costs by starting with a commercial hull design as a baseline. Program Executive Officer for Ships Rear Adm. Bill Galinis acknowledged earlier this month that previous designs from industry-led to cost estimates upwards of $1 billion per hull, for the program that seeks two variants: one to cover sealift, and one to focus on tasks such as sub-tending and command and control. The Office of Management and Budget rejected the high cost estimates in a December 2019 memo, as first reported by Inside Defense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 Quote We estimate that one or two of the 20 missiles on the USS Tennessee and subsequent subs will be armed with the W76-2, either singly or carrying multiple warheads. Each W76-2 is estimated to have an explosive yield of about five kilotons. The remaining 18 missiles on each submarine like the Tennesseecarry either the 90-kiloton W76-1 or the 455-kiloton W88,” wrote Hans Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists https://news.usni.org/2020/02/04/pentagon-confirms-low-yield-nuclear-warhead-on-ballistic-missile-sub Lord_James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2020/02/07/spain-seen-joining-greece-france-italy-on-european-patrol-corvette-program/ 30,000 ton corvette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/02/12/upgrading-the-first-four-littoral-combat-ships-not-worth-the-money-us-navy-says/ “Those four test ships were instrumental to wringing out the crewing, the maintenance and all the other things we needed to learn from them,” Crites told reporters during the Feb. 10 budget roll out. “But they’re not configured like the other LCS in the fleet, and they need significant upgrades. Everything from combat [systems], to structural, you name it. They’re expensive to upgrade.” "They’ve played an important role and we’ve certainly ramped up our employment [of the LCS],” Crites said. “That’s a good thing. But when we looked at our return on investment and the cost of bringing those ships up to speed, they’re important, but in the context of great power competition they were less important. So, we took those savings and applied it to other areas.” “The four LCS we’re talking about, we’ve gotten all we can get out of those ships in terms of testing,” Crites said. “In future testing we’re going to use the fleet-configured models.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted February 19, 2020 Report Share Posted February 19, 2020 https://news.usni.org/2020/02/18/navy-confirms-global-strike-hypersonic-weapon-will-first-deploy-on-virginia-attack-subs Quote The Navy’s CPS program will design a missile comprised of a Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) and a 34.5 inch two-stage booster. The program is pursuing an [initial operational capability] of FY 2028 in which the missile will be fielded on a Virginia class submarine with Virginia Payload Module. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Lord_James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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