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Tx., I liked this statement,
The objective is to generate a vessel design that exceeds state-of-the art platform performance to provide propulsive overmatch against diesel electric submarines at a fraction of their size and cost.
how are they ensuring unrefueled range of months? I believe they initially toyed with the idea of using only sails.
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The current Leidos prototype carries 40 tons of Diesel for a notional 70 day cruise. You can refuel or scale up for longer deployments.
The full load displacement of Sea Hunter is about 140 tons when hauling 40 tons of diesel fuel. The composite vessel is powered by two diesel engines that can reach a top speed of 27 knots (31 mph) and is designed for a notional 70-day mission.
http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=Article ... sea-hunter
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one of the risks identified was someone towing it to a foreign port, could be state sponsored pirates, from the schematics it seems it uses a sort of bow mounted sonar and not a dipping sonar or a trailing sonar, in any case loss of a sonar is not a good thing, while they want it to go where a manned ship is at more risk, sort of orthogonal. so it would have some level of aerial cover, not by the MPA which is probably employed elsewhere now that the tracking job is offloaded.

They also plan to assign mine sweeping duties to it.
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Spain does not have enough money for the construction of S-80 submarines

April 5th, 0:02
According to the French resource « opex360.com " in the publication « Pour-le Moment, la marine espagnole n'a pas assez de budget pour ses of sous-marins the S-80 " for replacement of available as part of the Spanish fleet of four diesel-electric submarines Agosta type boats , the Spanish Navy in 2004 commissioned a shipbuilding company Navantia task of building a series of new submarine S-80 project. The cost of the program then was estimated at 2 billion euros.

However, the trouble is not slow to appear. And the most important of which jeopardized the entire program: at the head submarine construction, the Spanish engineers understand that the submarine was having a significant structural overload, resulting in lower reserve buoyancy underwater.

Madrid suddenly turned to the US company General Dynamics Electric Boat to find a solution to the problem. But the paper was simple: it was necessary to increase the displacement of the boat due to the elongated body. But on the other hand, the execution of planned it was much more difficult, and more technically than financially.

On during parliamentary hearings last week, Spanish Defense Minister Augustin Conde (Agustin Conde) explained that the funds available to finance the construction of only one submarine of four planned.

According to him, "the completion of construction of the remaining buildings in the plan, forcing to increase the budget to the amount by which the Ministry of Defense and Navantia have not reached a compromise." However, he clarified that the first boat of type S-80 will be handed over to the Navy in late 2021. To date, the original amount has already been spent 1.8 billion euros.

Delays in the program to build a new generation of submarines led to another result for the Spanish Navy: if the fleet wants to keep his part of the submarines, it is necessary to modernize the remaining three types of submarines Agosta, in active military, to prolong their useful life.
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DDG-51 Flight III and SPY-6 (AMDR) update from yesterday :

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In 2017....Seems like cheen is trying to outmatch the usn of 2007 while usn is moving far ahead to 2027

There is a clear 20 yrs of gap in the technology being put up at both ends.
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vasu raya wrote:one of the risks identified was someone towing it to a foreign port, could be state sponsored pirates, from the schematics it seems it uses a sort of bow mounted sonar and not a dipping sonar or a trailing sonar, in any case loss of a sonar is not a good thing, while they want it to go where a manned ship is at more risk, sort of orthogonal. so it would have some level of aerial cover, not by the MPA which is probably employed elsewhere now that the tracking job is offloaded.

They also plan to assign mine sweeping duties to it.
These are things you can very easily address in the concept of operations when you hammer out the details on how you deploy. Give it an armed reaper escort if you must in high threat situations. It will likely be operating under the umbrella of armed USN vessels and MPA cover (Either P-8 or Triton) so no one is likely to come in and easily "steal" this thing away. It isn't something you are going to deploy by itself halfway across the globe without addressing any of these things. Think of it as a force multiplier in the ASW context (at least initially). Like all force multipliers you would naturally have to invest adequately to protect them.
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Navy League 2017: USS Gerald R Ford heads to sea trials


The US Navy's (USN's soon to be commissioned first-of-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) has completed builder's trials and is headed to sea trials according to Vice Admiral Thomas Moore, commander of the US Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).

"It depends on what we find, but the delivery timeline would be pretty quick after [sea trials]," Vice Adm Moore told reporters at the Annual Navy League conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on 3 April 2017. "First you go on the trial, and then - depending on what we find - two, three, four weeks after that we'll get the ship back for the acceptance trial with the Board of Inspections and Survey. If that goes well we can get the ship delivered in the late April/May timeframe, and we can move on to commissioning."

Commissioning is mainly ceremonial, Vice Adm Moore explained and the schedule generally depends on the availability of dignitaries. "On the timeline that we are on," he said, "if things go as expected, we'll get the ship delivered here in the next month or so...
From yesterdays Program Office Briefing on the Ford Program

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chola wrote:
Ah yes, the follow-on to the Wasp, the America class. An even bigger monster of a ship at 44K tons than the Wasp! They are still wringing out the lead ship though. They have three Americas in total planned (the USN currently has 8 of the Wasp class.)
There are two LHA's (LHA-6 and 7) currently operational or under construction. the third, LHA-8 is in the FY17 budget after advanced procurement began a couple of years ago. Beyond these they will continue to furnish all LHA requirements so fleet replacement (including Wasps) and growth will be met by them. The fourth will be paid for starting 2022. This is the new class going forward.
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U boats had milch cow u boats and disguised sub tenders.
Fleet can certainly drive these into welldecks of Lpd ships for upkeep and refuel underway or halted alongside
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India should participate in Taiwan's submarine project.

Approach them and ask what if anything we can be contracted to build.

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Taiwanese industry commits to submarine project

Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) has outlined a commitment to develop submarines for the Republic of China Navy (RoCN) but indicated that foreign technologies will be critical for the programme.

In a hearing to the Legislative Yuan's Foreign and National Defence Committee on 5 April, NCSIST representatives said the agency is currently in talks with Taiwan's naval shipbuilder CSBC Corporation about developing mission systems for the submarines.

The NCSIST and the CSBC Corporation were awarded a contract by Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) in March to design and construct the indigenous submarine fleet. The initial design of the submarine is expected to be finalised by early 2018.

http://www.janes.com/article/69315/taiw ... ne-project
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Navy League 2017: Electric Boat makes headway on common missile compartment development for US and UK future SSBNs ;Jane's Navy International
General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) is making rapid progress on building the first four-tube 'quad pack' for the US's future nuclear-powered ballistic missile (SSBN) submarine under the joint US-UK Common Missile Compartment (CMC) programme, with its second construction readiness review planned to take place in the coming weeks.

The review will assess GDEB's readiness to commence missile tube outfitting prior to installing in the quad pack.

The quad pack missile tubes and associated equipment form a key element of the CMC for the future US Columbia and UK Dreadnought SSBNs. The CMC, which will carry the UGM-133 Trident II nuclear missile, will effectively spread costs over the two strategic deterrent programmes, thereby helping to bring down costs for both nations. The United States and the United Kingdom have co-operated on strategic deterrence since 1963 under the Polaris Sales Agreement.

Speaking at the Navy League's annual Sea-Air-Space exposition, Vice Admiral David Johnson, principal military deputy to the assistant secretary of the navy for research, development, and acquisition, said the US's partnership with the UK was a key parameter in the Columbia-class programme.

"The US must meet the UK's Dreadnought-class timelines," he stated. "For both of the common missile parts design and the missile tubes, the SSP [Strategic Systems Programs] and PEO [Program Executive Office] submarines have structured the Columbia programme to minimise the UK timeline programme risks by building test facilities in China Lake, procuring missile tubes off a production line and building the first missile compartment section war tubes, a quad pack, ahead of the UK's first production quad pack."

GDEB successfully completed its first construction readiness review to authorise start of construction of the US first article quad pack in May 2016, with the UK Ministry of Defence and US shipbuilder BAE Systems attending the review. GDBE then commenced the first US article quad pack construction in August that year, on schedule, and is now on track for the planned completion date of August 2018. BAE Systems personnel are being trained along with the GDEB personnel and will be onsite during the quad pack construction to capture lessons learned, VADM Johnson said.The CMC design and construction differs from the Ohio-class SSBN missile compartment, which required workers to drill 24 holes in the top of hulls to insert the missile tubes one by one. Construction of the boat was then completed around the tubes.

The Columbia-class missile tube construction is intended to be accomplished in groups of four (quad packs) in the shop and manufacturing process. GDEB will then join and test the quad packs at its facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, before shipping the missile compartment as a single unit to the shipyard for incorporation into the hull during final assembly.

The USN's Ohio replacement boat is expected to have four sets of quad packs. The United Kingdom's Successor programme requires only eight operational tubes, although engineering dependencies and a drive to ensure maximum commonality with the United States have led to a design incorporating three quad pack sets.
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CVN-78 Ford , Sea Trials have begun

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US navy strike group to move towards Korean peninsula, official says
The US navy will move a strike group towards the western Pacific Ocean to provide a presence near the Korean peninsula, a US official said on Saturday.

The Carl Vinson strike group, which includes an aircraft carrier, will make its way from Singapore, according to the official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The news followed a Friday report by NBC that the National Security Council had included the return of nuclear weapons to South Korea in options presented to Donald Trump for dealing with the threat posed by North Korea. Killing North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, was also presented as an option, NBC reported.

On Saturday the White House said the US president had spoken to the acting president of South Korea, Hwang Kyo-Ahn. North Korea, meanwhile, called the US missile strike on Syria on Thursday night “an intolerable act of aggression”.

Rising tensions between North Korea, South Korea and the US and the North’s nuclear ambitions were chief among subjects discussed by Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in Florida this week.

The White House said on Saturday Trump spoke with Hwang about the strike in Syria, launched in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack on civilians by Bashar al-Assad’s government.

The two leaders agreed to stay in close contact, the White House said, regarding North Korea and other issues of mutual concern.

Analysts have said the Syria strike contained a clear message for Pyongyang that the US was not afraid to exercise the military option, and there had been speculation as to how the North would respond.

Trump has recently threatened unilateral action against Pyongyang if Beijing fails to help curb its neighbour’s nuclear weapons programme. Pyongyang’s response on Saturday suggested the reclusive state was determined to continue with its nuclear weapons programme.

“Swaggering as a superpower, the US has been picking only on countries without nuclear weapons and the Trump administration is no exception,” a foreign ministry spokesman said, according to the KCNA news agency.

The comments were Pyongyang’s first since Trump ordered the strikes on an airbase in Syria.

“The US missile attack against Syria is a clear and intolerable act of aggression against a sovereign state and we strongly condemn it,” KCNA quoted the spokesman as saying.

“The reality of today shows that we must stand against power with power and it proves a million times over that our decision to strengthen our nuclear deterrence has been the right choice.

“The Syria attack thoroughly reminds us the fact that it is absolutely dangerous to have any illusions about imperialism and only military power of our own will protect us from imperialistic aggression.

“We will keep bolstering our self-defensive military might in various ways in order to cope with the ever-intensifying US acts of aggression.”

The North has carried out five nuclear tests – two last year – and expert satellite imagery analysis suggests it could well be preparing for a sixth.

Pyongyang has shown no sign of reining in a missile testing programme ultimately aimed at securing the capability to deliver a nuclear warhead to the continental US.
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Video: Carrier Gerald R. Ford Gets Underway




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Some More. The DBR will take a bit getting used to compared to the Nimitz but it does look neat the way it is integrated into the island...



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Indonesian Navy receives pitch for Type 214 submarine from Turkish Golcük shipyard
The Indonesian Navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia - Angkatan Laut, or TNI-AL) has received an offer from Golcük Shipyard to supply a variant of the Reis (Type 214)-class diesel-electric submarine (SSK).

Multiple TNI-AL sources have confirmed with Jane's that meetings and presentations on the Type 214 class were conducted from early 2017 by a team of Golcük Shipyard and TKMS officials at the TNI-AL headquarters in Cilangkap near Jakarta.

The meetings will be followed by a visit of TNI-AL officials to Golcük Shipyard's facilities near Istanbul, where they will observe construction work on the Turkish Navy's first Type 214 boat, Pirireis (S 330). This visit is currently scheduled to take place from 7 to 12 May 2017, in parallel to the IDEF 2017 exhibition.

The Turkish Navy is anticipating the delivery of six Type 214 submarines from Golcük Shipyard. The first of-class is slated for launch in 2019, and all six boats are expected to be commissioned by 2025.

According to Jane's Fighting Ships , the Reis-class SSK features an overall length of 67.6 m, an overall beam of 6.3 m, and a hull draught of 6.0 m. The platform, which can accommodate a crew of 27 including five officers, has a top speed of 20 kt when dived, and 12 kt when surfaced.

The boat is equipped with bow, flank and towed array sonars, and eight tubes that can launch 533 mm torpedoes including the Raytheon Mk 48 Mod 6, and the Atlas Elektronik DM2A4.
Couldn't India have also bid for the requirement, with DCNS and Mazagaon Dockyard pitching the Scorpene? After all, we claim its a Make-in-India success story.

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Malaysia perhaps. Indonesia? Do not know. I see them as part of the axis of evil, HQed due north of them. Turkey fits into that group.
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Indonesia is a good friend of India.
There are looking for tie-ups with Tata and other Indian companies for the production of military vehicles in Indonesia.
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Future USS Gerald R. Ford completes successful builder's sea trials, begins preparations for acceptance trials
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) returned from Builder's Sea Trials to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia on April 14 after seven days at sea.

During this initial at-sea period, Ford's crew, representatives from Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding, the Navy's CVN 78 Program Office, the Navy's Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair and various technical subject matter experts demonstrated many of the ship's capabilities including tracking aircraft using the Dual Band Radar, conducting "no load" cycles using the new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) and small boat operations.

As is typical with sea trials, the Navy and shipbuilder learned a great deal about the ship's performance during the extensive testing. Analysis continues, and any identified corrective actions will be addressed.

CVN 78 remains on track to conduct acceptance trials and delivery to the Navy this spring.
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Japan's X-2 fighter plane called "Shin Shin" (what a name!).

Apparently it means "Spirit of the Heart".

This is what the babuz are hoping the AMCA will turn out to be...except we are about a decade behind.

Japan has spent just $332 million to get to where it is with this plane - which sounds incredibly low! Although they are no doubt starting with a lot of off-the-shelf or carry over stuff.

Nevertheless, the lesson here is on how to spend little and yet achieve results.

Lockheed would have added another couple of zeros to the end of that figure.

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Looks like a mini pakfa
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Singha wrote:Looks like a mini pakfa
It is one of those videos where they post a fake, morphed image so that people click and watch the whole thing :). The static image they have used is a photoshopped PAKFA in the X-2's colors.

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Japan's X-2 fighter plane called "Shin Shin" (what a name!).
The X-2 is a technology demonstrator and not a fighter aircraft. It is merely a technology test bed for some of the things that may or may not end up into their eventual next fighter which they may or may not sanction. At the moment they are looking for international consultant partners and have signed an agreement with the UK and have invited global participation from aerospace companies to assist in development if and when they decide to sanction the project.
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Does it have f22 type based 2d tvc?

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Those are just paddles to quickly develop and test TVC aided agility much the same way the X-31 did.
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7 days is awesome quick for a ship of vast size and complexity. vikramaditya was on sea trials for months and months.
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This was the builder trial phase. Next step is to have the Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) hop onboard and begin the acceptance trials. Those can last anywhere from weeks to a couple of months before the ship comes back to port and the Navy/builder team work at rectifying any errors discovered during either of these trials. Once that is done the board will certify corrections and the ship will begin preparing for commissioning which is currently estimated in late summer or early spring.
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A spot where IN warships and subs must make regular port calls.WE should have somewhere in the Indo-China Sea,our equiv to Gwadar.

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Vietnam uses an old naval base to make new friends


Cam Ranh Bay is welcoming American warships again
Apr 20th 2017 | CAM RANH BAY
NEAR the point where Vietnam bulges deepest into the South China Sea lies Cam Ranh Bay, perhaps the finest natural deepwater harbour in South-East Asia. France based a fleet there in colonial times. Russian ships made use of it in the Russo-Japanese war, Japanese ones during the second world war and American ones during the Vietnam war.

After the American withdrawal and communist triumph, the government of the newly reunited Vietnam leased the naval base to the Soviet Union. Russia gave up the facility in 2002. Today it is Russian tourists who flock to Cam Ranh International Airport, with its American-built airstrip, on their way to the beaches of nearby Nha Trang.

These days Vietnam ostensibly follows a policy of “Three Nos”: no military alliances, no foreign bases and no joining with another country to fight a third. Nonetheless, adjacent to the Vietnamese naval base at Cam Ranh is a facility that receives foreign military vessels. In theory it is a purely commercial venture, open to the ships of any country willing to pay for the maintenance and refuelling it provides. But it also serves a strategic purpose: sending a defiant message to a resurgent and expansionist China by allowing Vietnam to strengthen military ties with an increasingly diverse group of countries.

Anti-Chinese sentiment runs deep among ordinary Vietnamese. Vietnam fought wars against both America and China in the 1970s. But these days Americans, by and large, are received with affection, whereas many Vietnamese remain convinced that China still has territorial designs on their country.

In 2014 China sent an oil rig to a disputed part of the South China Sea, sparking anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam. Since then both sides have been careful not to stoke tensions. China has called off the drilling; Vietnam has made mollifying noises about solving disputes bilaterally, as China prefers. But for Vietnam, the underlying problem is unchanged: how does a small, poor country defend itself against a bigger, richer one?

The Philippines, under Rodrigo Duterte, has pioneered one approach: apparent capitulation. In exchange for massive investment in infrastructure, Mr Duterte has decided not to press China over their territorial dispute. Vietnam, using Cam Ranh Bay, is trying something else: diversification. Since the foreign-vessel facility opened a year ago, it has received 19 ships from 10 countries. China and America tie for the most visits, at three each. But every other visit save one has come from countries that have shown some form of opposition to China’s expansive maritime claims, including France and Japan. Vietnam appears to be reminding China of just how many friends and suitors it has—and just how well it can look after their warships.
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More on the "Big" ticonderoga replacement concept for Fleet and Surface BMD..

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Nice . I always felt the fast DDG51 class was a bit wasted and undesigned for the BMD mission which is all about height , aperture size , cells and big 2-stage missiles.

I am not so hot on the railgun and laser potential for BMD...not for a large area bubble .. seems more suited to point defence ? a railgun shell is just a hypersonic unguided KE weapon?

solid valued based old school east coast engineering, vs west coast product managers selling IoT juicers and cloud analytics :mrgreen:
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The Flight III sports the AMDR which is essentially AN/SPY-1 +15dB so a tremendous gain in terms of quality and area coverage when compared to the current AEGIS without significant increase in radar size. This effectively means half the warhead RCS being detected at twice the distance of the current AEGIS ships. This is obviously fueled by better digital processors (plus element level digitizations) and much higher power, higher efficiency GaN T/R modules compared to the decades old SPY-1.

But beyond, as they move to the larger cells that enable larger diameter, longer ranged missiles they would need even larger radars. With some low risk VLS modifications and Navy's changes in regulations allowing for SM3 Block IIB these sensors would very much come into play. Same with the larger 30 foot radars. We are then reaching into ICBM defense territory or carrying larger diameter, heavier KKVs and MOKVs. This is where the BMD mission begins to demand a larger platform hence this concept.

But the DDG 51 has to do a lot more than BMD and the Navy would be happy with a larger vessel since they have a global strike mission on top of other missions.
Singha wrote:I am not so hot on the railgun and laser potential for BMD...not for a large area bubble .. seems more suited to point defence ? a railgun shell is just a hypersonic unguided KE weapon?
The Hypervelocity Projectile and DEW are for organic defense against all types of incoming targets. You can use them for extending reach of your close in systems, anti-cruise missile defense mission, and even taking on incoming warheads in lower atmosphere when they are slower. These technologies are still a good decade away but the idea is to share the burden of these missions with the VLS allowing the VLS to gain flexibility and focus on area defense. Given that ESSM Block II is entering the SRBM defense mission you are taking out a cell that is available for area defense every time you put an ESSM in there so the idea is for these technologies to share this burden so that you trade off some ESSM's for SM6 and 3s.

It's not much of a concern for this particular vessel proposal however since the Navy won't need that many VLSs so there will be plenty of room for future growth. 280+ MK41 are a $hit load of cells.
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Russian intel vessel sinks after collision with merchantman in the Black Sea.

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Russian warship sinks after collision with freighter in Black Sea
Reconnaissance vessel damaged in crash with Togo-flagged boat near Turkish coast, prompting evacuation of 78 crew members
Russian Navy’s reconnaissance ship Liman, of the Black Sea fleet, is pictured in the Bosphorus last year.
The Liman, of the Russian navy’s Black Sea fleet, pictured in the Bosphorus in 2016. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters
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Shaun Walker in Moscow and agencies
Thursday 27 April 2017

A Russian naval reconnaissance warship has collided with a Togo-flagged boat near Turkey’s Black Sea coast, prompting an evacuation. There were no reports of casualties on either ship, but the Russian boat sank.

A Turkish coastal safety official told Reuters that 78 crew members had been evacuated from the Russian ship.

Russia’s defence ministry said its vessel, the Liman, had a hole as a result of the incident. The ministry told the Interfax news agency there were no casualties among the ship’s crew, who were “fighting to keep the boat in the water”.

However, the Turkish coastguard later reported the boat had sunk, around three hours after the crash.

The shipping agent GAC said the Liman and the other vessel, which it identified as Youzarsif H, collided in fog and low visibility. The Togo-flagged boat is believed to have been carrying livestock. All its crew were also unhurt.

The incident occurred shortly before noon local time, around 20 miles north-west of the Bosphorus strait, which divides Istanbul into European and Asian sides. Coastguard and emergency teams were dispatched to the site.

The Liman is a former research vessel that the Russian navy has retrofitted into a reconnaissance ship. It is part of Russia’s Black Sea fleet and is equipped with radio and sonar equipment. According to Russian media reports, it had returned from a voyage to the Mediterranean at the end of January.

In February, sources in the military told Russian media that it would be observing Nato’s Sea Shield exercise in the Black Sea.
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Standard Missile-6 passes rigorous graduation tests

PACIFIC MISSILE FIRING RANGE, Hawaii, April 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- After a complex series of U.S. Navy flight tests, Standard Missile-6 proves it's ready to reach its final stage of the acquisition process: full operational capability. Reaching FOC is a kind of graduation exercise that signifies the weapon's sea worthiness—no more testing required.

SM-6, produced by Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), is the only missile in the world that can perform anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, and terminal ballistic missile defense.

"The U.S. Navy began deploying SM-6s four years ago, but we've continued to give it software upgrades and test it in every possible scenario to learn more about what it could do," said Mike Campisi, Raytheon's SM-6 senior program director. "We've continued to raise the bar, and the missile has exceeded it every time."

Four SM-6 missiles were fired throughout the testing, each against a single shore-launched, sub- or supersonic target. All four test missions were successful.

"The missile is fully ready for deployment in all three modes at sea," said Campisi. "That kind of flexibility is exactly what our sailors need, and that's exactly what they're going to get."

Final assembly of SM-6 takes place at Raytheon's state-of-the-art production facility at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. Raytheon has delivered more than 330 SM-6 missiles with continuing production. The U.S. Department of Defense approved the release of SM-6 to several international customers in early 2017.
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In Details : French Navy Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle Mid-Life Refit

1/ Modernization of the SENIT 8 combat direction system (CDS) by DCNS which is the heart of the CMS and fuses the ship' sensors with effectors (weapon systems).

2/ New multifunction workstations in the combat information center (CIC): There will be 25 new workstations plus a cooperative (touch screen) tactical table in the middle.

3/ Installation of new digital networks, computer racks and data servers as well as the new "cybersecurity" solution by DCNS which was recently unveiled at Euronaval. The digital systems on DCNS's future combat vessels will be protected by design. DCNS, as project management leader and integrator of the armed vessel, integrates cybersecurity over the entire lifecycle of its products and services, which are designed to be cyber-resilient. Charles de Gaulle is set to be the very first vessel to benefit from this technology.

4/ Replacement of the old DRBJ-11B surveillance radar with a SMART-S Mk2 multifunction 3D radar by Thales.
According to Thales, SMART-S Mk2 is the latest 3D multibeam radar. It operates in S-band and is optimised for medium-to-long-range surveillance and target designation in littoral environments.

5/ Replacement of the old DRBN-34 navigation radar with a SCANTER 6002 by Terma.
According to Terma, the SCANTER 6002 naval surveillance radar is a fully coherent solid state radar with software-defined functionality. Advanced techniques such as Frequency Diversity and Time Diversity provide superior performance.

6/ Installation of a new IRST (infra red search and track) system: The ARTEMIS by Thales.
According to Thales, ARTEMIS is the most advanced cooled IRST and provides high performance short and long range IRST, against asymmetric and conventional threats.

7/ Installation of a new electro-optical system: the EOMS NG by Sagem (Safran): Two systems will be installed. According to Sagem, EOMS NG provides automatic 360° detection, identification, and gun/short range missile engagement of all surface and air targets, from anti-ship sea-skimming missiles to Fast Incoming Attack Craft (FIAC).

Air Wing Facilities Upgrade

The air wing facilities upgrade includes:
1/ Removal of engine test benches and workshops dedicated to the SEM (the space released will now be used to increase the maintenance capacity for the Rafale).

2/ Installation of 400 Hz converters to accommodate NH90 NFH "Caiman" helicopters.

3/ Renovation of the Landing Signal Officers (LSO) platform

4/ Installation of the new DALAS-NG (Dispositif d'aide à l'Appontage LASer Nouvelle Génération) laser landing assistance device in place of the old one.

5/ Replacement of the IFLOLS (Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System) with one of the latest technology, similar to the one currently fitted aboard the U.S. Navy future class of aicraft carriers (Ford-class / CVN 78).

Ship Management Systems Modernization


Among other things, it is necessary to modernize the platform's automatic controllers, the centralized ship management system and the damage control systems.

1/ Replacement of the programmable logic controllers (PLCs) for the electrical plant, propulsion, hoists...

2/ Renovation of the SATRAP computerised, integrated stabilisation system allowing aircraft to be operated up to sea state 5/6.

3/ A new network for the RSPN ship platform, which will integrate equipment monitoring systems.

4/ Modernization of production plants for cold water, air conditioning, refrigeration of computer racks...

Other Support and Overhaul Operations


In addition to the modernization of the aircraft carrier under DGA contracting authority, this mid-life refit is used to conduct both preventive and corrective actions in terms of general maintenance of the vessel. These "through life support" operations are conducted under the control of the French Navy "fleet support service" (service de soutien de la flotte) and relate to nuclear installations, aviation, platform, combat system.

1/ Mid-life overhaul of the bow catapult (with US Navy assistance).

2/ Renovation of the two boiler rooms and nuclear fuel replacement.

3/ Flight deck resurfacing with a new nanotechnology-based material

4/ Removal, maintenance and re-installation of the propellers, shafts, rudders and stabilizers.

5 / New paint coat above and below the water line.
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When you have an ICBM barge,who needs an SSBN? This is a concept which I've had for many years and hope that we will one day possess it along with our SSBNs.

NoKo is demonstrating a low-cost approach to possessing an UW N-delivery system,a "nuclear missile barge" from which it conducts its missile tests.However,the barge could likewise launch its BMs as effectively as an SSBN! Barges have been often used for testing UW missiles,as we have done too, but missile barges "MBs" safely hidden in home waters,bases UW caverns,etc., which move out very briefly just to let go of their missiles (after all they need to launch perhaps just once!) , is a very real and potent threat. This is a method which even the IN could adopt with UW pens on both coasts which can accommodate not just our N-boats and other subs but also N-barges. The beauty of an N-barge is that it can have larger silos than those on our SSBNs,thereby being able to accommodate even larger ICBMs with greater range or increased no. MIRVs and decoys. Developing a genuine SSBN takes decades and is perhaps the most complex of all weapon systems to master. Possessing an N-barge is far easier,plus it has one extra capability that makes it very worthwhile to possess,that of communications .Communicating with an SSBN thousands of NMs UW,hidden in the ocean's depths is a great challenge,as we've explained before. A barge ,with a direct land commn. link would get commands innstantly.

In fact, the very existence of these barges and their larger BMs could be a total secret! Ingress and egress during exercises would be in base waters and could be completed during darkness.A 16 cell N-barge would not require an N-plant,but only a small quiet diesel plant as speeds required for the barge would be very low.
Most N-pens UW are designed to have sev. entrances /exits in case the base suffers a nuclear attack. Therefore ,the barge could survive any N-attack on the base and emerge for a second strike.

On to NoKo:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... t-any-time
North Korea ready for WW3? Satellite images reveal submarine missile launcher site

NORTH Korea has a second submarine missile launcher site according to shock new satellite images, amid fears Kim Jong-un is poised to carry out nuclear tests as tensions escalate with the United States.

By KATIE MANSFIELD
PUBLISHED: 04:37, Tue, May 2, 2017
Commercial satellite imagery has identified the second submarine missile site at the Nampo Naval Shipyard on North Korea’s west coast, according to thinktank 38 North which monitors the secretive state.

The watchdog says the discovery of the second launcher could indicate Kim Jong-un has stepped up his submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) programme.

The test stand barge is reportedly similar in size to previous Russian models which can be used to conduct underwater tests for new submarine missile launch systems before they are installed in submarines.

Satellite images show Kim Jong-un escalating nuclear action
Wed, April 12, 2017
New satellite images show in great detail how Kim Jong-un is escalating North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.

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Figure 1. Activity continues at the North Portal DIGITALGLOBE/GETTY IMAGES
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Figure 1. Activity continues at the North Portal
Figure 1. Activity continues at the North Portal
Figure 2. Possible new dumping observed at the North Portal spoil pile
Figure 3. Probable personnel in formation or equipment in rows at the Main Administrative Area
Figure 1. Event locations (approximate) vis-à-vis tunnel portals with conjectured tunnel projections.
Figure 2. The extent of the original spoil pile of accumulated rock that was excavated pre-2006 for the tunnel used in the emplacement of the nuclear test devices used in 2009 and 2013.
Figure 3. Coincident with, or shortly after, radionuclides were detected and traced back to the February 2013 test, a new tunnel began to be excavated from the same point as the previous tunnel at the North Portal.
Figure 4. The spoil pile from the new tunnel excavation at the old West Portal (now “North” Portal) continued to expand through 2014.

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If both barges were acquired at the same time, it would imply that Pyongyang had planned a more extensive test program than it has so far conducted

Joseph S Bermudez Junior from 38 North said: “The discovery of a second missile test barge may have a number of implications for the future of North Korea’s SLBM program that appears to be an important priority for Kim Jong-un.

“A key consideration is the timing of the acquisition of the barges. If both were acquired at the same time, it would imply that Pyongyang had planned a more extensive test programme than it has so far conducted.

“However, since the second barge seems to have been acquired three years after the first, this could mean that North Korea is planning to accelerate its SLBM test program to include a west coast component or develop new SLBM designs, or that it may deploy a ballistic missile submarine with the West Sea Fleet.

Submersible test stand barge seen at the Sinpo South ShipyardDIGITAL GLOBE/SCAPEWARE3D
A second submersible test stand barge seen on same day at the Nampo Naval Shipyard
“None of these possibilities are mutually exclusive.”

It is unclear if the barge was manufactured in North Korea, but 38 North says a survey of the North’s naval shipways suggest the barge was imported into the country.

38 North said: “The barge appears identical in size (9m by 22.5m) and layout to the original barge that was first seen in 2014 at the Sinpo South Shipyard on the country’s east coast, which has been involved in at least four, and maybe as many as six, launches of the Pukguksong-1 (KN-11) SLBM since then.”

The satellite images are the latest in a series suggesting there could be fresh activity at Kim Jong-un’s test sites.
Last month chilling images revealed “unusually high levels of activity” at Kim Jong-un’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site.

Experts say the images could mean a nuclear test is “imminent” as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calls for North Korea to destroy its nuclear arsenal.

North Korea has conducted five declared and remotely detected underground nuclear tests at its dedicated nuclear test site at Punggye-ri in mountainous terrain in the northeast of the country over the last decade.

The discovery comes as the White House says it does not see US President Donald Trump holding a meeting with Kim Jong-un “any time soon”.

After Mr Trump told Bloomberg News he would be honoured to meet with Kim, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters the US would need to see North Korea's provocative behaviour ratcheted down immediately.

Tensions have been high for weeks over fears Kim Jong-un may conduct a long range missile test
North Korea suggested yesterday it will continue its nuclear weapons tests, saying it will bolster its nuclear force "to the maximum" in a "consecutive and successive way at any moment" in the face of what it calls US aggression and hysteria.

Mr Trump has said a “major, major conflict” with North Korea is possible over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, while China said last week the situation on the Korean peninsula could escalate or slip out of control.

In a show of force, the US has sent the nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to waters off the Korean peninsula to join drills with South Korea to counter a series of threats of destruction from North Korea, formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The Japanese have sent the Izumo to safeguard US naval manoeuvres in the region such as refuelling the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group.

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, has warned Kim Jong-Un represents a serious threat as missiles are launched towards his country.

A spokesman for North Korea's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by its official KCNA news agency: “Now that the U.S. is kicking up the overall racket for sanctions and pressure against the DPRK, pursuant to its new DPRK policy called 'maximum pressure and engagement', the DPRK will speed up at the maximum pace the measure for bolstering its nuclear deterrence.

“The measures for bolstering the nuclear force to the maximum will be taken in a consecutive and successive way at any moment and any place decided by its supreme leadership.”

North Korea test-launched a missile on Saturday which Washington and Seoul said was unsuccessful.

Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks over fears the North may conduct a long-range missile test, or its sixth nuclear test, around the time of the April 15 anniversary of its state founder's birth.
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Nuclear submarine key usp is Stealth and Mobility , If they use N barges then it would loose Stealth and Mobility
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BAE Systems launched Audacious - the fourth Astute-class SSN Submarine for Royal Navy

http://navyrecognition.com/index.php/ne ... -navy.html

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Armed with Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk land attack missiles, the Astute class submarines are the most highly-capable submarines ever built for the Royal Navy. They can strike at targets up to 1,000km from the coast with pin-point accuracy, are equipped with a world-leading sonar capability and powered by a nuclear reactor. The first three submarines in the class, HMS Astute, HMS Ambush and HMS Artful, are now in service with the final three Astute class submarines are at various stages of construction at the Barrow site.
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