@marcusfaulkner
Naval and intelligence historian. Familiar with the Second World War, knows about War Studies and has an amateur understanding of Space. PhD, MA etc. Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies @ King's College London
I'd say multi domain rather and dimensional. The naval domain is already multi-dimensional at this stage. You made this point about Crusader the other week and it has me persuaded. I'd probably that to think a bit more about how and when true multi-domain operations emerge in WW2.
Anybody thinking that any conflict involving Iran would not involve disruption to traffic through Hormuz was not paying attention. Also most navies, past or present, spend very little time thinking about commercial shipping and the implications of disruptions.
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Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence Rear Adm Mike Brookes testified today that the PLA Navy is moving from a hybrid diesel-nuclear submarine force to an all-nuclear submarine force. Notable. www.uscc.gov/sites/defaul...
I've written a short piece on recent PLAN inductions of two new Type 903-series replenishment oilers, for @navalnews.com. Auxiliaries remain a somewhat underappreciated, but critical naval capability. Any changes in this respect are always consequential.
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Most complex thing humans can build until the atomic bomb.
Italian naval AA weapons by @ima-naval-history.bsky.social
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🔱The MARSEC COE has now published the conference proceedings from last year's conference, and on pp. 177-193 you can find my paper, titled "Combatting the Shadow Fleet: Countering Maritime Sabotage, Surveillance and Disruption".
🔐 Lots of good papers, open access:
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I'd go for Andy Boyd's book.
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Building SSN-AUKUS: Australia’s $30bn Nuclear Submarine Yard at Osborne
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New open access article by @fabiodeninno.bsky.social and I available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It focuses on the impacts of blockade on Sicily and Sardinia, 1940-43. It links 3 themes that, in our view, have too often been siloed in the historiography of the SWW (esp Italy). 1/
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This is the point, a number of smaller warships, auxiliaries, MFP type craft are different to an equal tonnage of larger warships.
You have a good point there. I hadn't quite thought about it in those terms either. Partly also because we tend to still see the Western Desert as a military campaign rather than thinking about the Eastern Med-Red Sea as a single entity.
The Tomahawk era seems to be far from over and might well be entering its prime.
'The Raytheon deals aim to increase annual production of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the current rate of about 60 per year for the U.S. to eventually 1,000 units annually'
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This is the way. The UAV & P8 combo is a natural progression and key to expanding patrol and ASW activities. Considering that a few European countries are moving this way and working on components coordination & cooperation would be useful.
I'll get it, read it, enjoy it and learn some things. It isn't really the first take on the pivot point of 42 or the first global history of a moment in the war though.
Looks good, well beyond my supermarket Italian though.
Hardly surprising that Rheinmetall wants to expand its construction offering given that naval procurement is overweighted in German rearmament plans and RM is not going to be able to significantly expand its aviation side and KNDS rivals on army platforms.
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This may look like a child's drawing of warships, but in fact it is a SECRET 1955 CIA HUMINT report on Soviet naval vessels in the Baltic.
PSL thread analysing a forgotten report to show value of Cold War HUMINT sources for analysis and intelligence.
Battleships once defined naval power. Today, they mostly define nostalgia.
Puts all the hype around the Helsing UAV delivery announcement last year into some perspective. The issues will be rectified and frontline experience will lead to improvements. Some very elementary things were going wrong with the HF-1 at the outset.
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Delighted to see this commentary published. There are serious long term implications stemming from the Bella 1 / Marinera Incident.
Full credit for writing the hard bits goes to my co-author Caroline Tuckett.
High Stakes on the High Seas | RUSI
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I think we can be sure that was by design.
Like Alex says a full airgroup makes for a tight fit on CdG so this is giving more space, flexibility for more ease of operations, endurance, and UAVs in due course. Two half-sized ships for the same budget would be very compromised. The medium carrier has always been something of a chimera.
Fascinating read, both in terms of the actual case but also as an example of history/historians with research of different fields and time can provide resistance or critique. Thanks for sharing, this is well beyond my subjects, but really interesting to me, I should have read this earlier.
What exactly the role is beyond looking good and having all the latest gear - both being legitimate objectives - is something that needs establishing. It is a bit of everything at the moment when each thing could be delivered by a different platform perhaps more effectively.
It's a political statement as much as a strategic tool. After the early days 🇫🇷 did make the CdG work for its needs and in the last decade got a lot out of it. The cost and timeframes here though would be a concern even if the state has a tendency to be able to see core longterm projects through.
PANG will be expensive, eye-wateringly so, and might well require some give elsewhere. Larger displacement for same nominal AG understandable given that CdG is a bit cramped and in any case 🇫🇷 can't afford a larger crewed naval air wing. Plenty of space for UAV complements though.
To quote the President 'They'll be the fastest' - you want to make it fast, over 35+ kts then then you'll need some powerful machinery. I suspect if you built a Ticonderoga with 50%+ VLS capacity, powerful sensor fit, a big powerplant for speed and DE weapons you get to 30k easily.
The best primer piece on the programme, or more accurately the idea:
www.twz.com/sea/what-we-...
