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Very good points here from Dr Elizabeth Buchanan. Elizabeth Buchanan, an expert associate at the The Australian National University National Security College, expects the naval fleet review to suggest solutions that are "gold-standard and completely out of actionable reach for the behemoth that is #defence". “We must realise the desire for perfect solutions is a wicked distraction from the reality that we need a #maritime centric defence capability in this arc of strategic competition — we are at the heart of it," Dr Buchanan said. "Time to abandon the pursuit of perfection, what can we secure quickly and where can we work interoperability wise with partners, not just via #AUKUS?” The final point is right and where we should be looking to expand and deepen cooperation with regional partners, especially Japan - The Government of Japan and the Republic of #Korea. This can extend beyond maritime cooperation and into defence and dual-use #technology and #innovation. #defence #defense United States Department of Defense US Navy Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Japan Ministry of Defense U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) IndoPaCT Pacific International Center For High Technology Research - PICHTR Bernice Glenn Kissinger https://lnkd.in/gtCxnJ9a

🟨🟤 • 🇹🇼 Taiwan’s largest private shipbuilder has started building an anti-submarine warfare frigate expected to relieve stress on the fleet. The construction comes as China continues growing its naval force, which includes 48 diesel-electric and 12 nuclear-powered submarines, according to a Pentagon report. The submarine force is expected to grow to 65 boats by 2025 and 80 by 2035. Taiwan plans to acquire a dozen light frigates, six for anti-submarine warfare and six for anti-air warfare, to replace its already decommissioned Knox-class frigates. The island nation’s naval fleet carries out missions in the Taiwan Strait, including patrol, surveillance, offshore-island transportation and escort, maintenance of maritime communication lines, and training support. Jong Shyn Shipbuilding held a ceremony Jan. 16 in Kaohsiung to mark the beginning of construction. The company had signed a contract on May 12, 2023, and began constructing one of the anti-air warfare frigates on Nov. 17, 2023. • Global Defense News

Six large and "optionally crewed" naval vessels heavily armed with missiles will be added to Australia's surface fleet under a dramatic $11 billion reshaping of the navy that will also see the acquisition of 11 new general-purpose frigates to be partly built overseas. Labor has unveiled its long-awaited "Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant Fleet", which will include six Hunter-class frigates, reduced from an original plan of nine, as well as upgraded versions of the existing Hobart-class destroyers fitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles. Under the sweeping overhaul, Australia's current fleet of combat-ready warships would rise from 11 to 26, consisting of nine "Tier 1" frigates and destroyers and 11 smaller general-purpose frigates, as well as six optionally crewed vessels which will form a "Tier 2" force. Defence Minister Richard Marles said that, while the optionally crewed vessels "have the capacity to operate in an uncrewed fashion," Australia's intention was to use crews. Australia's oldest currently serving warship, HMAS Anzac, will be immediately retired ahead of the gradual replacement of the aging Anzac-class fleet with new frigates which will first be built in either Germany, Korea, Japan or Spain. The planned number of Offshore Patrol Vessels being built in Western Australia will be halved to six and will eventually form part of a planned fleet of 25 minor war vessels dominated by Evolved Cape Class patrol boats. The government will consider the eventual replacement for the Hobart-class destroyers "in the context of the 2026 National Defence Strategy" to align with a continuous naval shipbuilding strategy at Adelaide's Osborne Naval shipyard. Releasing the plan at Sydney's Garden Island Naval base, Mr Marles insisted the plan was "fully funded" and would inject an additional $1.7 billion over the forward estimates and $11.1 billion over the next decade into defence. "The enhanced lethality surface combatant fleet will ensure the navy is optimised for operations in our current and future environment, underpinned by the meticulous assessment conducted by the Independent Analysis Team," Mr Marles said. "This significant advancement in navy capability that will be delivered under this plan requires a strong, sovereign defence industry," Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy added. The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, called it "a serious investment and a serious challenge for our Navy to step up and deliver". "This is a real shot in the arm in terms of understanding the important role that the Australian Navy sailors play across the Indo-Pacific," he said. "This will be the largest surface combatant force we've operated in generations. It will also be, in time, the most lethal."

🌊 Who Rules the Waves? U.S. and Chinese Fleets, by Tonnage 🌊 🔎 The United States and China are engaged in a naval arms race, with both nations rapidly modernizing and expanding their maritime forces. 🎖 However, the U.S. Navy currently maintains an overall advantage in terms of capability, despite China's numerical superiority in total ship count. 🎖 👉 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐲 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 ◾The U.S. operates 𝟏𝟏 aircraft carriers, compared to China's 2, giving it a significant edge in power projection and strike capabilities. (China's 3rd aircraft carrier is still going through it's sea trials). ◾The U.S. has 92 modern destroyers, while China has around 50, with questions remaining about the full capabilities of China's new Type 055 destroyers compared to the U.S. Navy's advanced Arleigh Burke-class ships. ◾American submarines, though fewer in number, are entirely nuclear-powered and more technologically advanced than China's mixed fleet of nuclear and conventional submarines. ◾The U.S. can rapidly deploy overwhelming naval power to the Pacific region if needed, with capabilities like launching over 1,000 cruise missiles in an initial engagement. 👉 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞 ◾70 percent of Chinese warships were launched after 2010, while only about 25 percent of the U.S. Navy’s were. China’s newer ships are not necessarily superior, although the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence assessed in 2020 that China’s ships were increasingly of comparable quality to U.S. ships. ◾Chinese ship production dwarfs that of the United States. The Office of Naval Intelligence assessment noted that China has “dozens” of commercial shipyards larger and more productive than the largest U.S. shipyards, and an unclassified U.S. Navy briefing slide suggested that China has 𝟐𝟑𝟎 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 of the United States. ◾China now possesses the world’s largest maritime fighting force, operating 234 warships to the U.S. Navy’s 219. This count of China’s fighting ships encompasses all of its known, active-duty manned, missile- or torpedo-armed ships or submarines displacing more than 1,000 metric tons, including the 22 missile-armed corvettes recently transferred to the China Coast Guard but not the approximately 80 missile-armed small patrol craft operated by the PLAN. ⚓ 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 ⚓ Such preponderance provides an important wartime advantage: one recent study concluded that larger fleets won 25 out of 28 historical wars. Like those historical combatants, China has the numbers to absorb more losses than the United States and keep fighting. In one recent set of wargames, China lost 52 major surface warships compared to between 7 and 20 U.S. equivalents. Even after such catastrophic losses, China still had more surface warships than the United States and was able to continue the naval battle. 🔊 What are your thoughts on the future of naval power dynamics between the U.S. and China? 👇

“China has been investing so much in shipbuilding over the past 18 years that it can now build more ships in a month than the United States can in a year — and Beijing aims to keep widening its advantage. If the U.S. military does not soon catch up to this capacity, it risks finding itself off-guard and ill-equipped in a conflict scenario. China’s recent expansions should alarm American military planners and spur investments to bolster naval power.” I agree with Eisenhower on the need to beware the military-industrial complex. That said, our national security vulnerabilities to Chinese aggression continue to build. We must fix our shipbuilding challenges. #nationalsecurity #navy #shipbuilding #southchinasea

Construction begins on new fleet of warships for Royal Canadian Navy - Defense News "Initial construction is beginning on a new fleet of warships for the Royal Canadian Navy, with the vessels expected to be operational by 2035, service and government officials said....The project will see the construction of 15 warships to replace the current fleet of Halifax-class frigates. Topshee said the navy is classifying the new ships as destroyers." Calian Group delivers mission-critical systems and solutions that enable militaries to deliver on complex missions at home and abroad. Calian delivers training solutions, ground communication installations for satcom, defence manufacturing, cyber security, and professional and engineering services for defence customers. Whether on land, at sea, in the air or in space, everything we do is focused on meeting military requirements to give you confidence for no-fail missions. For more information about our available defence solutions, please access the full range of our defence capabilities @https://lnkd.in/eYbKzM2d #defence #defense #navy #militarymanufacturing Note: Articles posted or shared on this Calian Defence Solutions site are for informational purposes only. Any views or opinions expressed herein are those of the articles’ authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Calian Group. https://hubs.li/Q02F7Vnl0

The U.S. Navy is enhancing its capabilities with the development of hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles under the Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive Anti-Surface (HALO) program. The HALO missile is projected to outperform current systems such as the Harpoon and Tomahawk in terms of speed, range, and effectiveness, significantly improving naval strike capabilities. This initiative is designed to bolster the Navy’s preparedness for potential conflicts in the Indo-Pacific region and to counter the advancements in hypersonic technology made by Russia and China.

The USN's surface fleet is the linchpin of US grand strategy linking submarine and naval aviation power and combining global presence with strike and defensive punch. Proof is its high usage which has not been answered by enough combatants. Revitalization, modernization, and augmentation of the US surface fleet is imperative. https://lnkd.in/erX8yaTA

Interesting proposal here. I just think that the current trajectory the Navy is on makes the most sense from a capabilities and supply chain aspect. Perhaps the bigger question is: should the Marine Corps operate this instead of the Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System to support the Navy in the Maritime Domain? This clearly leads into emerging operational concepts that the Marine Corps is leaning into, but ultimately Sea Control is the end state that needs to be achieved.

Taiwan’s largest private shipbuilder has started building an anti-submarine warfare frigate expected to relieve stress on the fleet. The construction comes as China continues growing its naval force, which includes 48 diesel-electric and 12 nuclear-powered submarines, according to a Pentagon report. The submarine force is expected to grow to 65 boats by 2025 and 80 by 2035, the report noted. China considers Taiwan a rogue province and has threatened to take it back by force. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20231231 #TSICrossStrait #TSITaiwanFP #TSIChinaFP #TSITaiwanMilitary #TSIMilitaryBalance