Mission Threads and European Exercises: MARTAC’s 24 Foot USV at BALTOPS-23 and REPMUS 23
Recently, MARTAC announced the launch of their new Devil Ray T24. This is a production USV…
Read More »The Pacific Submarine Fleet: A Key Part of the Kill Web Con-ops for Pacific Deterrence
I have just returned from a five week visit to Australia and to Hawaii. During that…
Read More »Unmanned Surface Vessels: The Catamaran Advantage
There is little question that maritime autonomous systems have a key place in the evolution of…
Read More »Australia’s Submarine Transition: Taking a Comprehensive View
In 2009, Kevin Rudd’s government decided to increase Australia’s submarine capability. It wrote in its defence…
Read More »The CMV-22B’s Contribution to Carrier Lethality and Survivability
I have written about how the CMV-22B provides for enhanced support to distributed maritime operations in…
Read More »The Payload-Utility Function and the Kill Web Concept of Operations: The Case of the Cube System
In our book published earlier this year and entitled A Maritime Kill Web Force in the…
Read More »Visiting Euronaval 2022: Shaping a Way Ahead for the Maritime Kill Web Force
I was in Paris for the Euronaval salon which was held during the week of October…
Read More »The Integratable Airwing and the CMV-22B Thread
To meet the challenge of operating a distributed fleet but working force integration, the Navy along…
Read More »USS Essex Receives 3D Printing Capability
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) partnered with Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMNAVSURFPAC) in facilitating…
Read More »The Defense of Denmark and an Evolving Kill Web Regional Force
With the war in Ukraine, and the prospect of Finland and Sweden both joining NATO, the…
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