Chicken of the South China Sea

Readers won’t be surprised to see tensions in the South China Sea continuing to increase.  All it is going to take is someone making a miscalculation and somebody’s going to be shooting at someone else.

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Kh-35U

Video of Russian anti-ship missile test.  What I noticed is all the hits seem to be high up on the superstructures.  Interesting video.

Russian CVL

A report on a proposed Russian CVL.  Frankly, nothing in the specs in this article make sense.  The numbers quoted for size don’t make sense with any of the other numbers. (h/t Jeff Groves)

Submarine day

Here is video and an article on the UK’s SSBN force.

 

An interesting article arguing for the USN to acquire a diesel submarine force.

DDG-1000

The DDG-1000 program (the stealth destroyer) has been a money pit for the Navy.  If the armed forces want more money, they need to eliminate crap like this.

Russian Naval activity

The Russians are at it again.  While I really don’t see the Russians as a real threat, we still have to treat them as such.

The Germans are not serious

The Germans are not serious about defending themselves and we shouldn’t be doing it for them.

Argh

Stuff like this needs to stop happening.  The Navy needs a bigger fleet and things like this will sour the public on that idea.

Hellfire replacement

Looks like the US military is about to get an upgraded anti-armor, anti-everything else missile.  Good news.

Russian subs

Looks like Russian subs are becoming a little more active of late and the USN is moving assets to deal with that.  I still believe that the Russian threat is a pretty empty one, but better safe than sorry.