Naval and Defense News

[xavierv]

China Building a 3rd Type 901 Large Replenishment Oiler for PLAN

Our partner East Pendulum is reporting that a 3rd Type 901 replenishment oiler has been spotted (via satellite imagery) at the Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Limited (GSI), Guangdong province in southern China.
The imagery shows the vessel already at an advanced stage of construction with most of the hull already assembled and the forward block ready to be connected to the rest of the hull. This is the third Type 901, a 240 meters long, 48,000 tons replenishment oiler design to support the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) future carrier strike groups (CSG).

The first one, named "Hulun Lake" (or Hulunhun in Chinese, with hull number 965) was commissioned in September last year.

A second Type 901 was launched last summer at the same shipyard (its construction started in late 2016 according to satellite images.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... -plan.html

Last Gumdoksuri-class / PKX-A patrol vessel commissioned with ROK Navy

The official media of South Korea's military is reporting that the last Gumdoksuri-class fast patrol ship was commissioned with the Republic of Korea Navy (ROK Navy) on January 11, 2018. Jeon Byeongik (전병익) is the final of 18 PKG (or PKX-A) class patrol vessels.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... -navy.html




USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) just completed 401 fixed-wing launches & recoveries

While underway for Independent Steaming Exercise Five, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) completed 401 catapults and arrestments, bringing the total to date to 747. On the final day, Jan. 19, the Ford and Carrier Air Wing 8 team completed 135 traps.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... eries.html

Australia's Future Submarine Combat System Continues To Make Progress

A $700 million contract has been signed with Lockheed Martin Australia for the Future Submarine Combat System Design, Build and Integration, creating 200 new jobs, majority of which will be based in South Australia.

“This contract will cover work to 2022, including the design of the Combat System and procurement activities to select subsystem and component suppliers.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... gress.html

Belgian Government Green Lights Procurement of New Generation MCM Vessels

The Belgian government (Council of Ministers, following a proposal from Defense Minister Vandeput) agreed today to launch a public procurement procedure for the replacement and initial support of the Belgian Navy (Marinecomponent/Composante) and the Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine) fleets of mine countermeasure vessels (MCMV).

As far as the Belgian Navy is concerned, six MCMV with related equipment (MCM Toolboxes, USVs, UUVs...), support equipment and initial support will be procured to replace the six existing Tripartite-class MCMV. Six similar, new generation vessels, will also be procured for the Royal Netherlands Navy (to replace its six remaining Tripartite-class MCMV as well). According to a Belgian government press release, other European partners can join this project as a result of this public contract. The vessels and "MCM toolboxes" are expected to be delivered between 2021 and 2030.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... ssels.html

First Italian-Built F-35B STOVL Aircraft Delivered To Italian Navy

The first Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (STOVL) F-35B Lightning II aircraft, assembled outside the United States, was delivered to the Italian Ministry of Defense and assigned to the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) at the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Cameri yesterday.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... -navy.html

[strykerpsg]

ORIGINAL: PaladinZeroSix

I'm surprised no one has posted about this yet....

Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to post links yet, but google "Declassified Cold War files reveal how the Soviets sneaked up behind enemy submarines without sonar".

Here's a similar link posted last October at Subsim. Interesting tech indeed, but apparently not good enough to keep up with the newer vessels, or so we are made to believe.


http://www.popularmechanics.com/militar ... onar-soks/

[Dysta]

The nationwide attack via new-Gen mobile network may come to a stop when government decided to nationalize it. Or does it really? Another Chain of War mayhem becomes even more uncertain:

https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... d-network/
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01- ... onalize-5g

[xavierv]

Interim AOR M/V Asterix Completes Royal Canadian Navy Trials & Achieves FOC

Davie Shipbuilding and Federal Fleet Services announced that following an intensive period of at-sea trials and testing, Asterix has been formally accepted by the Department of National Defence and has now entered full operational service with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... s-foc.html

[Dysta]

ORIGINAL: navyrecognition

The first one, named "Hulun Lake" (or Hulunhun in Chinese, with hull number 965)

A minor correction here: It is not hun but hu (湖 in Mandarin). So either Hulun Hu (name and then lake) or Hulunhu are correct.

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Anyway, Cao on Twitter posted the recent photo of Wing Loong I-D (or ID). It's only a scaled model, but made of foam. Heavily empathize its full-composite airframe as a main upgrade from the base version.

https://twitter.com/xinfengcao/status/9 ... 7742468096

[kevinkins]

Update on the Black Sea:

"For NATO, the writing is on the wall – it needs to increase its ASW capabilities fast in order to deter the Russian submarine threat. As part of the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI), U.S. P-8 Poseidon aircraft have begun patrolling over the Black Sea in order to track these submarines and gather intelligence. Nevertheless, the presence of Russian fighter aircraft as well as sophisticated air defense systems in and around Crimea makes the P-8s vulnerable to interception and/or interference (România Liberă, September 9, 2017). Clearly, besides a stronger NATO presence in the region, there needs to be an overall increase in regional ASW capabilities."

http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/growing-s ... black-sea/

The Black Sea would be a very tough nut to crack above the surface.

Kevin

[PaladinZeroSix]

ORIGINAL: strykerpsg

ORIGINAL: PaladinZeroSix

I'm surprised no one has posted about this yet....

Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to post links yet, but google "Declassified Cold War files reveal how the Soviets sneaked up behind enemy submarines without sonar".

Here's a similar link posted last October at Subsim. Interesting tech indeed, but apparently not good enough to keep up with the newer vessels, or so we are made to believe.

The upshot is that the CMANO devs need to update the engine and databases with MASINT sensors.

[User2]

ORIGINAL: PaladinZeroSix

The upshot is that the CMANO devs need to update the engine and databases with MASINT sensors.

IIRC, some GCB2 game subs had SOKS sensors.

[Hongjian]

The Type-072III Yuting-II-class landing ship Haiyang Shan (936) has recently being spotted carrying a big gun mount for testing.

Rumors are ripe that this might be China's naval railgun being tested.

Whatever it is, it is clearly for test, judging both the containers on the deck and the guaranteed deck-penetration, which would inhibit the frontal ramp.





Seems to be a planned leak. It might really be the long awaited naval railgun.

[Hongjian]

Taken some days before and just now being allowed to be posted on the Chinese BBS. That gun position used to house a twin 37mm AAA mount.

[Dysta]

This isn't son of a gun, but son of a railgun.

Special brass in PLA means real business, electrify new weapons for the future.

[Hongjian]

ORIGINAL: Dysta

This isn't son of a gun, but son of a railgun.

Special brass in PLA means real business, electrify new weapons for the future.

Ma Weiming said in an interview: “In the field of high end electromagnetic facility research, China surely has already surpassed America.”

Dr. Ma: Our IEP tech is world-leading, we use MVDC, America is still using MVAC which is 1st gen tech, they just start pre-research in MVDC.

GT: From the experience of FORD CVN, AAG is more difficult than EMALS. Dr. Ma: You can't draw such a conclusion, we only use 1/5 time in AAG

Dr. Ma: In ten years, EM energy will replace chemical energy.

http://mil.huanqiu.com/china/2017-03/10 ... a40613cfe1

[Hongjian]

it is already going out for the test.

[kevinkins]

More on the strategic choices for the South China Sea (fairly long article).

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/wan ... rd%20Brief

[Hongjian]

https://twitter.com/xinfengcao/status/9 ... 8833467399

Guess we have the designation for the Sino-Impeccable finally: Type 927 Sonar Detection Ship
Probably equipped with a derivate of the SJG-208 SURTASS.

[Hongjian]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18 ... ic-railgun

[xavierv]

Is China's PLAN About to Test a Railgun at Sea ?
https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... t-sea.html

[Dysta]

In 2016, Japan predicted and feared that Chinese railgun may be used to encounter USN/JNSDF advanced warships, especially for the Diaoyu/Senkaku island conflict:

http://jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles/-/47 ... paign=link (Japanese)

[kevinkins]

No so sure that the carrier's sally out of Norfolk is related to the Viktor Leonov's presence in the area:

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world- ... eonov-news

But the Viktor Leonov's presence is probably related to the number of subsea cables feeding into the mid-Atlantic:

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/3381

Interesting article on Olenya Bay above.

[Hongjian]

Clearest image yet. What a huge guy.