Glad we are doing this

All US forces need to train against aggressors with the best equipment possible.  The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.

How have I never heard of this?

Story here.  I was completely unaware that this had ever occurred.  More here.

Submarines: The future or the past?

If the technologies in this article ever get developed, then the submarine may have outlived its usefulness.  This would be both good and bad for US interests.  It would make one of the legs of our nuclear triad more vulnerable, but it also would mean that our CVNGs would be less vulnerable.

Spy subs

Unmanned spy subs.  An interesting concept. hiding boomers will get much more difficult in the coming years.

The Mark 14 torpedo

One of the biggest US failures of WWII.  A great explanation in the video below.  While watching it I can’t help but reflect on how many of our weapons development problems today seem to stem from the same issues from 80 years ago.

Biber

I am building the Special Navy kit of the Biber submarine.

Amazingly there are a number of these which survived the war, some of which washed up with dead pilots due to the poor design.

One of them has even been restored  to working order.

Submarines in Asia

An interesting article on submarine development and acquisition going on in Asia.  The South China sea may get very interesting.

Good news?

After the series of USN procurement screw-ups, I am not confident about anything they do, but this seems like good news.  Lets hope they don’t boondoggle it.

US Navy upping their game

The new Ford class aircraft carrier has been designed with extra electrical capacity for laser weapons.

In addition the USN SSBNs are now fielding small yield nukes on some of their missiles.

Go Navy

Russian spy ship

A Russian intelligence gathering ship is off a US sub base off the coast of South Carolina.  This is just more of Putin trying to look like he is flexing muscles.  As I’ve repeatedly said Russians doing things like this is a sign of their weakness, not their strength.