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US NAVY Aviation Vision 2030-2035

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Pelican wrote: Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:49 pm This Is Our First Look At The USS Connecticut After Its Underwater Collision

The Navy remains tight-lipped as to what the nuclear submarine hit in the South China Sea and the damage that was done.

See - https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4 ... 9INJBUcTjE
Investigation Concludes USS Connecticut Grounded on Uncharted Seamount in South China Sea

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The U.S. Navy Plans More Powerful Air Wings As The Chinese Navy Reveals Two New Planes

The U.S. Navy has laid out plans for its next-generation carrier air wing. One with drones, new stealth fighters and better munitions.

And just in time. Because the Chinese navy is moving quickly to begin matching the American fleet’s current wing.

The U.S. Navy today maintains nine carrier air wings, or CVWs, to fly from its 11 nuclear-powered supercarriers, or CVNs.

The current CVW structure includes four fighter squadrons, each with 11 F/A-18E/Fs, plus a squadron with five EA-18G electronic-warfare jets and another unit with four E-2 radar early-warning planes. MH-60R and MH-60S helicopters and C-2 supply planes round out the wing.

Over the next few years, however, the CVWs will settle on a new mix of planes that should remain standard for a decade or so. USS Carl Vinson in early August sailed from San Diego with the first of the fleet’s redesigned wings.

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Pelican wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 10:59 pm
Pelican wrote: Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:49 pm This Is Our First Look At The USS Connecticut After Its Underwater Collision

The Navy remains tight-lipped as to what the nuclear submarine hit in the South China Sea and the damage that was done.

See - https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4 ... 9INJBUcTjE
Investigation Concludes USS Connecticut Grounded on Uncharted Seamount in South China Sea

See - https://news.usni.org/2021/11/01/invest ... TTQdDD2oWM
Navy fires leaders of USS Connecticut following submarine crash into undersea mountain
Eleven sailors were injured in the collision.

The captain, executive officer, and chief of the boat of the Seawolf-class attack submarine USS Connecticut have all been fired following an Oct. 2 incident in which the boat struck an underwater mountain in the South China Sea, the Navy announced on Thursday.

Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of 7th Fleet, relieved Cmdr. Cameron Aljilani, Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Cashin, and Master Chief Sonar Technician Cory Rodgers on Thursday “due to a loss of confidence,” a Navy news release says.

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Navy Secretary Seeks 3-5% Annual Budget Increases


The U.S. Navy needs annual budget increases of three to five percent over inflation if it is to reach its shipbuilding goals and meet China’s “significant threat,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said Thursday.

“I think we're raising the alarm, certainly, and I think more members of Congress understand the real threat that China presents, not just to our national security, but our economic security. I think they'll become more willing to invest more in the Department of Navy, both the Navy and the Marine Corps,” Del Toro said at the 2021 Aspen Security Forum in Washington, D.C.

Del Toro spoke the day after the Pentagon released its annual report on China’s military power, which estimates that the country will have 1,000 or more nuclear warheads by 2030, far more than estimated in last year’s report. China already has the world’s largest navy at 355 ships and submarines, many of which soon “will have the capability to conduct long-range precision strikes.”

If the U.S. Navy is to reach 355 ships—the goal service leaders put forth in 2016 and Congress ratified two years later—it needs budget increases of three to five percent over inflation, Del Toro said.

The Navy asked for $211.7 billion in 2022, essentially a flat budget, including $22.6 billion for shipbuilding procurement, less than what it received in 2021.

Del Toro, who was sworn in Aug. 9, arrived too late to influence the Navy’s 2022 budget but said he supports President Joe Biden’s budget.

China’s 17 naval shipyards produced 20 warships last year and is aiming to do the same this year, Del Toro said.

“It's a significant threat. And so when we look at our shipbuilding capability, I am concerned that we need to make greater investments in shipbuilding,” he said.

The Navy’s newest 30-year shipbuilding plan, as described in its 2022 budget proposal, calls for growing the current fleet of 296 crewed ships to a hybrid force of 398 to 512 crewed ships and unmanned vessels. The Congressional Budget Office estimated in September that this would require $25 billion to $33 billion in each of the next 30 years.

Del Toro said the capability of the ships, not just the number of them, is key to deterring China. He said older ships could be upgraded, citing the modifications being made to the Zumwalt-class destroyers to arm them with hypersonic missiles.

“We obviously want to be able to build the most modern ships that we can, while maintaining some of the legacy ships that we have to be able to fight the conflict, should it present itself in the next two to three years, for example. So it's a balance between all of those together,” he said.

Del Toro also said he hopes Congress will allow the Navy to stop buying F/A-18 Super Hornets so it can buy more F-35 Lightning IIs, which he said were better able to “meet the significantly increasing capabilities of the Chinese.” House lawmakers have added $1 billion for more Super Hornets to their version of the 2022 Appropriations bill.

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U.S.M.C.

Strategic Command - UKStratCom

Happy 246th birthday to USMC
We currently have over 200 US Marines serving alongside our personnel onboard HMSQNLZ
as part of the Carrier Strike Group.
The US are a key ally of UK Defence and have been an integral part of CSG21 throughout their global deployment.

See - https://twitter.com/UKStratCom/status/1 ... 9420416001 - for 2 photos.

For more photos see - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1458451017071316994

Also - https://twitter.com/smrmoorhouse/status ... 1557517312

Plus - https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-hi ... npy9lJJHfw

Note - http://lewin-of-greenwich-naval-history ... 136&t=3310
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HMS Tamar and HMS Spey remember British and American war dead at Pearl Harbor memorial


Sailors from HMS Tamar and Spey paid their respects on Remembrance Day like their shipmates around the globe – but at one of the US Navy’s most hallowed sites.
More than 40 men and women from the patrol ships honoured both Britain’s war dead and the victims of the Pearl Harbor attack on the glistening white USS Arizona Memorial.

Barely ten minutes into the attack on December 7 1941, the Arizona was torn apart when a bomb pierced her armour-plating and detonated the battleship’s forward magazine – an explosion in similar fashion to those which devastated Royal Navy battle-cruisers at Jutland and HMS Hood earlier in 1941.

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100 Years Ago, Harrowing Voyage of the USS Olympia Carrying the Unknown Soldier Home From France

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetary commemorated its 100th year anniversary last Thursday. On November 9, 1921, the cruiser USS Olympia arrived at the Washington Navy Yard on the Anacostia River, carrying the casket of an unknown American soldier, to be interred in the tomb on Armistice Day, November 11th.

In celebrating the centennial it seems worthwhile to also remember the harrowing transatlantic voyage of the cruiser Olympia that very nearly ended in disaster as the ship battled mountainous seas in the remnants of two hurricanes, threatening both the ship and its precious cargo.

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Meanwhile more gr8 advance planning for the ED$EL..........err FORD which still has not had ANY active deployments!

https://news.usni.org/2021/11/15/uss-ge ... id=76c31b8

This article smacks of much of the same "material" that comes out of the AFT end of a BULL! IMhO............ :lol: DFO
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The term “hypersonic” describes any speed faster than five times that of sound, which is roughly 760 miles (1,220 kilometers) per hour at sea level, meaning these weapons can travel at least 3,800 miles per hour.

Hypersonic Weapons on Track to Deploy on Attack Submarines in 2028

The Navy is still on track to deploy hypersonic weapons on its attack submarines in 2028, a service official said Thursday.
While the first Zumwalt-class destroyer will get a hypersonic weapon in 2025, the first Virginia-class submarine will deploy with hypersonics in 2028, Strategic Systems Programs director Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe said today at the annual Naval Submarine League symposium.

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