Indian sub came close to firing on N-sub
AN INDIAN submarine came close to firing on an unidentified N-sub during the 1971 India-Pakistan war. In a stunning revelation about the conflict in a book written by a retired Indian Navy submariner, an Indian submarine had a brush with a hitherto unidentified nuclear submarine near Pakistani shores. Missing an opportunity for innovation
By Ryan Kuhns
100 years ago today, in bunkers and boardrooms across Europe, the military and political leaders of a Europe that was being drowned...
Airborne over horizon options to enable distributed lethality
By Michael Glynn
THE Navy’s surface warfare community is committed to remedying its lack of anti-surface warfare (ASuW) punch with concept of Distributed Lethality....
NATO: Drawn together by the need for collective attention
Speech by the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir George Zambellas KCB DSC ADC to NATO maritime conference: "Here we are in a very different set of circumstances, drawn together by the need for collective attention and professionalism in our responsibilities." Distributed lethality: a cultural shift
From guest author James Davenport for CIMSEC's Distributed Lethality week.
DESPITE the recent article on Distributed Lethality1 and the paper on Offensive Sea Control2, there...
East Asia security in age of Chinese mega cutter
By Ryan D. Martinson
ON MAY 19th, a formidable new Chinese ship put to sea for the first time. As it left its berth at Jiangnan Shipyard, its onboard automatic identification system (AIS) transmitted signals for anyone who cared to receive them. Its identity, Zhongguo Haijing 2901. Its purpose, sea trials. Its heading, somewhere in the East China Sea. World naval developments June 2015
By Norman Friedman*
IN JUNE, the U.S. government announced that it had suffered a vast breach of computer security. The data bases kept by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had been entered, and some or all of the contents taken. Norman Friedman looks at the implications.
SEA 1000: the design challenge
By Christopher Skinner
THERE are other important dimensions to consider in a large complex project such as the Future Submarine Program (FSP) SEA 1000 besides...
China’s military white paper
By Himanil Raina
The Security Environment
On 26 May 2015, China released its first ever White Paper focusing exclusively on military strategy. China’s economic rise propelled...
Germany lobbies for India’s submarine project
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
GERMANY is hopeful in bagging multi-billion-dollar Indian submarine project for building six conventional submarines, says a PTI report.
German Ambassador to India...