Weekly Briefing: Naval Warfare

The latest naval warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense

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Weekly Briefing Naval Warfare

New Egyptian Base Sends Messages of Support to Libya, Challenge To Turkey The opening of the base signifies Egypt's determination to assert itself as a regional naval power with vast capacities and challenge efforts by its competitors like Turkey to expand their area of influence and control oil and gas rich zones of the Mediterranean.

It's Time For A National Maritime Strategy Two Hudson Institute experts say the US needs a maritime strategy that looks at all American assets, not just the Navy.

Boeing Eyeing How MQ-25 Can Talk To Pilots When The Carrier Cannot The premise of Boeing's demonstration is simple, but it is aimed at the heart of many of the operational concepts and environments Pentagon leaders have discussed in recent years.

Hondo Geurts To Exit Pentagon Geurts will exit "later this month," he announced.

Navy Says Constellation Hull Change Won't Affect Internal Design "You could say we bought a bigger house, [but] from a modeling and simulation perspective, it's exactly the same."

SPACECOM Head Touts Space, High Seas Parallels "The behavior of some of our adversaries in space is surprising. If similar actions had been taken in other domains, they'd likely be considered provocative, aggressive, or maybe even irresponsible," said SPACECOM Commander Gen. Jim Dickinson.

To Counter China, The Navy Should Retake the High Ground With time and money both running short, fielding a force to deter Chinese aggression will require a new approach to naval aviation. writes Bryan Clark and Timothy A. Walton.

Top Navy Aviator Says CNO's Industry Warning Based On Future Threats The Navy's top officer hit industry on Monday for lobbying for "aircraft we don't need."

APKWS Upgrade Extends Range By 30 Percent: BAE "Starting early next year, the upgraded kit will be the only kit in production. All orders set to deliver next year will be the upgraded version of APKWS," a BAE spokesman said.

Delayed Navy Torpedo Competition Set For Later This Year The Compact Rapid Attack Weapon will produce one of the first new torpedoes introduced to the Navy's fleet in decades.

Distributed Maritime Operations: Making Ships, Subs, And Platforms Nodes On A Network [Sponsored] To facilitate the pivot to the Great Power competition against adaptive enemies with advanced capabilities, the Navy is developing the flexibility to decentralize its forces while remaining fully networked.

China's Nuclear Forces Swell: A Tri-Polar World? The combination of a modern long-range bomber (the H-20), and an expanded seaborne ballistic missile force, as well as this massive inflation of the land-based ICBM component, makes China's nuclear forces look far more like their "hegemonic" counterparts in Russia and the United States than the minimal or limited deterrent presented by French or British nuclear forces.

The Navy Wants Industry To Manage Its Autonomy Integration Efforts The Navy wants to hire an industry partner for its Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab, or RAIL, office.

Navy Launches 'No Notice' Fire Safety Assessments At All Shipyards The new policy comes as a result of the loss of the Bonhomme Richard in July 2020.

SNC Deploys Cutting-Edge Security Tech For Maritime Regions [Sponsored] As the importance of oceans, coastlines, economic exclusion zones and sovereign waters increases, countries are faced with a crucial problem.

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