... ship.
The differences are just as striking: the approaches to the development of the naval components of both countries are diametrically opposed to one another. The concept of the shipbuilding programme implemented by the People’s Liberation Army Navy is primarily based on building blue-water surface ships: the pace of building large destroyers and cruisers resembles the shipbuilding efficiency typical for the great maritime nations prior to World War II. Suffice to say that during the past decade,...
Interview with Admiral William Fallon
RIAC Media and Government Relations Manager Nikolay Markotkin discusses current US policy towards NATO, new military technologies, and U.S.-Russia relations with retired US Navy four-star admiral William Joseph Fallon, who served as Commander of the U.S. Central Command (2007–2008) and U.S. Pacific Command (2005–2007).
What is your opinion on the current policy of Donald Trump towards NATO?
Christopher Harper:
NATO ...
... aircraft carriers had qualitatively greater potential in terms of aviation. The only worthy rivals of the U.S. Grumman F-14 Tomcats and McDonnell Douglas F/A 18 Hornets were the MiG-29 and Sukhoi Su-27s.
Ground-based fighters are rarely allocated to the navy (there are many more examples of the reverse process taking place). The flight decks of carriers are too short for conventional fighter jets to take offs. This is where the catapult — the universal method of increasing an aircraft’s take-off ...
... take to counteract the threat.
Foggo and Fritz write that once again, “an effective, skilled, and technologically advanced Russian submarine force is challenging” the US. The authors cite Viktor Chirkov, former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, who had previously
stated
that “the rate of submarines going on deployment has increased by nearly 50%”
[2]
. Foggo and Fritz concur with Clive Johnstone, British Vice Admiral, Commander of the Allied Maritime Command, who believes that Russian ...
The People’s Liberation Army Navy of China (the PLA Navy) is perhaps the fastest growing and most ambitious navy in the world. After decades of focusing on coastal defence, the PLA Navy is for the first time ever venturing into the world’s oceans and is prepared to fight for ...
Prospects for Russian Navy amphibious forces development in the wake of the cancelled Mistral contract
“In military matters, capability, not intentions, matters most”.
Otto von Bismarck
In early 2014, Vice Adm. Frank C. Pandolphe, Director for Strategic Planning ...
... forward deployable contingent to 30,000, whereas
at the beginning of the Iraq war
, it had been 50 percent larger. Reductions in the army after the withdrawal from Iraq in 2009 were of course reasonable but the cuts in hardware, primarily in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, have produced long-term negative effects on the nation's defense capabilities, increasing the need to rectify the situation with the new strategy.
Among other things, in 2010, the British decided to ditch all Harrier II VTOL ...
The official motto of the Brazilian Navy is “Protegendo nossas riquezas, cuidando da nossa gente” (Protecting our riches and taking care of our people). Whereas the latter part is almost philosophical, the former emphasizes the important role of the navy for the country with ...
Trends in the Development of the U.S. Naval Surface Forces
Trends in the Development of the U.S. Naval Surface Forces
Surface ships, primarily cruisers and destroyers, are the “work horses” of the U.S. Navy and in many ways the foundation of its combat stability. But it would not be an exaggeration to say that they receive less attention from the media, the expert community, the military establishment and the United States Congress than their more successful ...
... 240 out of 700 respectively), as well as 70 percent of total warheads (1090 out of 1,550). SSBNs accounted for about 50 percent of total warheads (1,152 out of 2,152).
Building a new-generation SSBN is a top priority for any scenario.
Today, the U.S. Navy has 14 Ohio-class SSBNs. Of them, 18 were built in 1976-1997, but in the 2000s four were converted into guided-missile submarines
to carry Tomahawk cruise missiles
. Each submarine has 24 SLBM tubes, although by 2018 the number is to be reduced ...
