Weekly Briefing: Naval Warfare News and Analysis

The latest naval warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense

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Weekly Briefing Naval Warfare

China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report "The report does not claim that China's military is currently 10 feet tall," but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia

Small RIMPAC Ends With Big Allied Missile Barrage A video released by the Navy shows Harpoon ship-killing missiles launched by the Canadian frigate HMCS Regina and US destroyer USS Lake Erie tearing into the ship, along with a French-made Exocet missile fired by an offshore patrol vessel from Brunei.

'If It Floats, It Fights:' Navy's New Small Ship Strategy Existing amphibious ships might be the "Swiss Army Knife of the fleet," but the Navy and Marines want an enemy who "jumps on it in the opening gambit…they're gonna have the shock of their life."

US Condemns PRC For Paracel Missile Shots The missile firings, DoD says, "further destabilize the situation in the South China Sea. Such exercises also violate PRC commitments under the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea to avoid activities that would complicate or escalate disputes and affect peace and stability, and call into question its motivations with ongoing negotiations for a Code of Conduct between China and ASEAN."

DoD War Games Predict 'Extremely Destabilizing' Chinese Military Parity "If we do come to blows with China, it's gonna be very confused for the first 30 or 45 days, and then we must fight in a distributed fashion," said Maj. Gen. Tracy King, Marine Corps' director of Expeditionary Warfare

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