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ALL OF THE SUDDEN, THE U.S. NAVY IS ON TRACK TO GET A WHOLE LOT OF NEW SHIPS || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

Revealed: US Navy's New Littoral Combat Ship Is Getting a Big Missile Upgrade ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Kris Osbourn)

USS Freedom ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Kris Osborn The Navy plans to deploy two separate long-range over-the-horizon missile weapons aboard its Littoral Combat Ship later this year as part of an effort to better arm the vessel and give it an ability to attack longer-range land and ocean targets than it is currently configured to do, according to industry sources familiar with the ship's development.  The Kongsberg-Raytheon Naval Strike Missile will soon deploy with the flat-bottomed "Freedom" variant LCS and a Harpoon Block IC missile will deploy on the Navy's trimaran "Independence" variant of the ship; the idea is to further assess each weapon in an operational setting as a way to better determine the ideal over-the-horizon weapon for the ship's future.  At the same time, the Navy is also weighing the prospect of arming the LCS with the emerging Long-Range Anti-Sh

Russia and China Have Big Naval Dreams—And the US Navy Just Responded ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

Image credits- Wikimedia Commons /United States Navy Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar The United States Navy has started work on plans for a new family of warships that will eventually replace the service’s current surface fleet. These new warships will be tailored to address a future global security environment that is expected to be quite different from the one the United States faces today. “The Navy is working on the requirements for the family of ships that will join the future fleet replacing several combatants to include the first DDG-51 class ships,” said Lt. Kara Yingling, a spokeswoman for the Navy’s Surface Warfare Directorate (N96). “The Navy began a Future Surface Combatant Capabilities Based Assessment (FSC CBA) to identify a holistic common analytic basis for coordinated development of a future combatant shipbuilding strategy." While the work is currently in its preliminary stages, the Navy expects to start developing a set

America's Navy Is Spread Too Thin ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Nikolas K. Gvosdev)

USS America, LHA-6 ( Credits- Wikimedia Commons / United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author-  Nikolas K. Gvosdev Earlier this month, I had the privilege of being on a panel as part of the Naval War College’s Regional Alumni Symposium, discussing the strategic importance of the Black Sea region, along with Michael Kofman of the Center for Naval Analysis and Chris Marsh of the School of Advanced Military Studies. After all, as Marsh noted, the Black Sea is assuming much greater importance as part of China’s ambitious “one road, one belt” system, designed to link the Asia-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic worlds—a point made graphically clear by Parag Khanna’s “connectography” maps, while Kofman called attention to Russia’s new power-projection capabilities emanating from Crimea. Yet for all our eloquence in calling for the Black Sea to assume greater importance in American strategic thinking, equally compelling cases were being made for why additional U.S. attention