Posted on 01/05/2016 10:56:11 PM PST by Mariner
Earlier today the U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer released a new plan to keep the sea service ahead of its Russian and Chinese rivals.
While the new document will shape the Navy’s strategy, the service uses the term “design†to emphasize the its built-in flexibility to recognize the rapid rate of change occurring in both technology and the maritime domain.
“This guidance frames the problem and a way forward, while acknowledging that there is inherent and fundamental uncertainty in both the problem definition and the proposed solution,†Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations. “As we move forward, we'll respect that we won't get it all right, and so we'll monitor and assess ourselves and our surroundings as we go. We'll learn and adapt, always getting better, striving to the limits of performance.â€
Richardson’s design describes the strategic environment and identifies four broad lines of effort:
1) "Strengthen Naval Power at and from Sea"
2) "Achieve High Velocity Learning at Every Level"
3) "Strengthen our Navy Team for the Future"
4) "Expand and Strengthen our Network of Partners
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
However, we need at least 100 additional hulls in the water.
And the USN needs to accept that some of those hulls we be 4,000 tons, not 10,000 tons.
And, all submarines do not have to be nuclear.
Ping
maybe under a ‘President Trump ‘
2.Floating, moving, defensive barges spread along the coast using "Metal Storm" type kinetic weaponry. they can be autonomous, remotely controlled on land, or even manned by a rotating skeleton crew.
3. Defensive islands built to serve the purpose of a the above floating/moving structures in a more permanent basis.
4.Redesign of hull shapes, with move to dual-purpose tri-hulls*, and/or possible add-on hull structures of existing monohulls for the purpose of defeating super cavitating torpedo tech.
* "Dual purpose"is defined as having the two extra hulls serve to exploit the advantages of normal tri-hulled ships, but they would also be built in a way to better defend the ship's main hull from torpedoes. Segmented, partitioned bulkheads with REACTIVE armor would maximize defense, while minimizing the extent of damage, for example. Ships would also have kinetic rail gun tech or laser (when ready and when effective) tech above the water to defend against missile or torpedoes above the waterline.
5. Most important: GET RID OF THE F--KFACE LIBERALS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM!!!
Sometimes "you just need a submarine". Fast attacks doing sneaky-petes when pigboats were already doing them in 1942? .... might not be necessary, not when Collins-class diesels have >50 days' mission endurance and the Swedish Kockums-type closed-cycle Nacken coastal boats can stay underwater for three days, no surfacing. (The Collinses are also Swedish designs.)
That business about developing "partners" sounds ominous .... it does not reassure. Ronald Reagan wouldn't have emphasized "partners" to get to 600 ships. It's as if the Navy bonzes accept that Obozo will never let them get anywhere near "domination" of our main competitors.
More subs is great and yes conventional ones as well. I'll make the same argument for conventional subs as I do saying we really need at least two conventional carriers. It takes IIRC 18 months to get a Nuke Snipe from Basic Training to being out of Nuke School and ready to go to a ship and qualify there. 18 Months conventional will have you a seasoned and experienced Snipe likely ready to take his E-4 Exam. This matters in relation to mass causalities a reality that has to be addressed. How many Nuke Snipes can be turned out vs Conventional ones and time frames involved?
Ships need for the purpose of material readiness {the operational maintenance of the ship}, and for personnel readiness and qualifications need to be at sea for substantial times. Parking any ship at the pier without sending it to sea on a regular basis will effect the ships operational readiness.
A typical cycle for us was coming out of the yards then doing a few short shakedowns. Then we'd do ops off the coast doing carrier quals getting the crew and pilots ready for the next stage. We'd head down to GITMO operations area for a month of intense training for all hands. We'd come back in to home port then head off on a one-three month deployment either to South America or somewhere like the Virgin Islands or a NATO Cruise to the UK. Upon return the ship would spends several weeks making final preparations for a six month plus deployment in our case to The Med Sea. Upon return we immediately went into the yards either for our three month stand down or the required one year extensive overhaul. Doing otherwise leads to issues like what we saw at 9/11. This applies to smaller ships as well as the big ones. Any Sec of Defense or SECNAV who allows five carriers berthed at the same base or even four should be fired.
The only nation whom we can count own to defend us is U.S. We won’t see Reagan levels again but we darn well should be at two thirds of that level in all respects including active duty manpower in all services.
the navy ... has a plan to take over the largest land mass in the world?
pardon me for being a tad skeptical
Don’t get me started....I’m a dinosaur in their libutard modern Naval minds....and they are sorely mistaken...
Instead of more ships and sailors, the Navy will manufacture more admirals, continue to pay 50 times more for biofuels, and back to the hilt every crackpot program to put women, queers, and minorities into combat roles. They’ll even figure out how to make its first female SEALs, as the Army did with its Ranger program.
With Obama in charge that’s a pipe dream
The way I sees it-—and feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
1. We need a world class Yacht for the President to do deals and meetings on-—armed too.
2. We need a Tall ship for the Cadets at Anapolis like other nations have—we are laging behind.
3. We need a powerful rail gun battleship or two.
4. We need some small Drone launching fast carriers maybe three or four—
5. More subs too—at least a dozen non-nuclear hunter killers—like other nations have. Deep divers too.
6. A few troop transports as well. As well as Cargo ships to re-supply the fleet at sea.
7. Maybe a gunned cruiser with 8 inch guns to serve as shore bombardment vessels—with lots of anti-aircraft ability.
Have I missed anything???
This Plan—long worked on will not last a week in a real Naval War—even a moderate power could give us fits. If we had to face Russia/China we would be hard pressed without help from Japan/India. Lets pray we never have to find out. What will Metrosexual American young men and women do when they seen a US Carrier roll over and take 1,000s of service men and woman to Davy Jones Locker? What would Obama do? Go to the UN and file a complaint? My bet he would hide in his bunker and do zip.
Typical Navy wishful thinking, bureacratic-sounding fluff. Can’t do any of it without ships or personnel, which the Navy is losing fast.
Nothing happens until we stop squandering our resources in the Mideast.
Like Hillary says with glee, “I would set up a no fly zone in Syria.”
“And the USN needs to accept that some of those hulls we be 4,000 tons, not 10,000 tons.
And, all submarines do not have to be nuclear. “
We have entered an age where cheaper, smaller and mostly unmanned is the strategy for victory. The age of the multi-billon dollar single target is over. We just haven’t had our Pearl Harbor wakeup call yet. I think there were elements in the navy and Congress in the late thirties who realized the battleship was done, but they lacked the pull to spend more on the right weapon for its time until the demise of the battleship was obvious even to the street urchin selling newspapers. Please, let’s not repeat that loss of life on an even bigger scale.
Well said,Sir.
>>Any Sec of Defense or SECNAV who allows five carriers berthed at the same base or even four should be fired.
That we are doing that is just mind boggling. Do these fools not understand what happened at Pearl Harbor?
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