Marcus Faulkner

The reminder that there is no such thing as a cheap modern conventional boat nor one that can be built quickly. Only a standardised type/family with substantial production pipeline might allow for some economies of scale.

📜 2025 Sir Michael Howard Annual Lecture - Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945

📅 03 Dec | 📍Bush House

Dr Halik Kochanski will explain how and why all across Nazi-occupied Europe some people decided to resist the Third Reich.

🎟️ RSVP: ow.ly/Bbne50X5C5l

SIGINT and SRTs in the Cold War A Response to Aaron Bateman

How well could the US track Soviet mobile ICBMs in the cold war through SIGINT/ELINT satellites? A good debate here. "...it is more clear now that NSA tested the idea and had resources to pursue it." strategicsimplicity.substack.com/p/sigint-and...

In the film the pontoon/barge construction does look a little more substantial than in the painting.

Quite near the truth.

I was merely saying that from a second or so shot I was not going to extrapolate too much.

Okay, its only a very short shot, seems more stable than I thought. I was getting strong RCH155 vides there.

Or rather the gun doesn't seem to be fixed to the pontoon and runs back on it. Maybe it's too hard to be sure from that though.

That's a lot of War Studies.

Would like to have seen the recoil effects when firing.

How New Technologies Are Making the Submarine Force More Lethal The Submarine Force is harnessing several new technologies to hone its advantage.

www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

Thinking Before Sinking: Red and Blue AI Tactics for Naval Combat - The Naval Review 40 pages

There is much talk of AI in warfare, but rather less progress in applying it usefully to naval tactics. In this short piece for The Naval Review I reviewed a recent German effort. There is some way to go yet...

www.naval-review.com/book-reviews...

YouTube video by Battleship New Jersey Can The Navy Take Back the Battleships?

Ryan has talked about the practicalities of Iowa-class reactivation in the 21st century extensively over the past years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuJH...

One reason why the SSBN, when it first arrives, presents something of a challenge to the US in terms of how to employ it for reassurance and deterrence at the same time.

Boeing liefert ersten deutschen Seefernaufklärer P-8A aus Der US-Flugzeughersteller Boeing hat das erste Seeaufklärungsflugzeug P-8A Poseidon im Rahmen einer feierlichen Zeremonie in Seattle im US-Bundesstaat

Boeing handed over the first German P-8A for Marineflieger naval aviation to the Bundeswehr procurement office, at an event in Seattle. No information on when the aircraft will transfer to Germany, but presumably soon.

www.hartpunkt.de/boeing-liefe...

*if we take the comment at face value. Whole different story about his points, but nonetheless kind of interesting to see that reference at that moment.

Is Trump’s Call For Putting Battleships Back In The Navy's Fleet Even Feasible? Trump wants battleships back in the Navy's inventory, and that may be far-fetched, but his remarks do highlight real deliberations around the future of surface combatants.

No. Sheer cost, crew requirements, lack of parts, maintenance & ops experience etc.. A good read on future combatants though.

President Trump's specific mention of how he liked the Victory at Sea series is an odd reminder of how impactful the series was at the time.

www.twz.com/sea/is-trump...

Neptune Cruise Missiles Used To Strike Factory In Russia: Ukrainian Navy The strike came as the U.S. is scrambling to dramatically boost production of its own long-range munitions.

While a Neptune does not remotely compete in the same range class thus does constitute the same sort of threat having a few hundred of these rather than a few (low digit) Tomahawks would have its use too.

www.twz.com/news-feature...

e.g. getting a full FP-5 Flamingo production line going. Presumably Tomahawk does have better precision, can fly lower thus giving it some degree of better survivability, beyond that though they would be similar in terms of effect. And there would be more of them.

The Air Launched ones were carried by B-52s, not really an option here. I doubt a Su-24 could carry one...

What are Tomahawk missiles and why does Ukraine want them? The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is typically launched from sea.

Genuine question here beyond, how would the Tomahawks be launched by 🇺🇦? A Typhon battery? Given the availability of missiles, let alone launchers, any transfer would be an exceedingly expensive and limited one. Those resources might have better impact elsewhere.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Working on a Memories of War edit focused on Seafires over Salerno. Sorting out the Order of Battle for Operation Avalanche's carrier units...
Also first (and abandoned) operation for the Barracuda I. Last operation for Albacore.

#NavalHistory #ww2 #History

Wasn't there supposed to be a huge deposit somewhere along the Rhine valley, Rhineland-Pfalz, can't remember exactly but somewhere in that region.

I can do many things, Italian is not one of them unfortunately.

The capability should come equipped as standard.

Russian naval ship ‘disguised’ itself while passing through English Channel The Boikiy emitted a fake ID signal while sailing through the waterway alongside two sanctioned oil tankers.

the Baltic, North Sea and Atlantic approaches is needed. Vessels of certain origin need to be comprehensively tracked. That doesn't necessarily require tailing by surface warships all the time.

As a reminder the 🇷🇺 navy has a fondness for acting in this way: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russian Navy Ship Caught Lurking Off Denmark's Coast as Drones Attack The vessel had its tracking equipment deactivated, indicating the vessel wished to avoid detection by Danish authorities.

So about the need for maritime domain awareness..... Jumping to conclusions is unwise as much of the context is unknown, it's as possible the ship was under some form of surveillance. Nonetheless a more comprehensive and integrated approach to domain awareness in

www.newsweek.com/russia-drone...

If F/A-XX Can't do This, We Don't Need It yes, actually, I am the good idea fairy

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French navy seizes nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine off West African coast French authorities say the "remarkable seizure" was found on board a fishing boat following a tip-off.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Could I interest you in some Type 26s.... Joking aside swapping out a design for an incomplete AAW platform to be adjusted for ASW work and maybe in service in 10 years is not ideal. The fleet plan increasingly looks like a mess, more an ambitious shopping list than reflecting pressing needs.

He got more concrete later on:

'Wir verbessern die Lageerfassung im Orbit durch Radare, Teleskope und durch den zukünftigen Einsatz von Wächtersatelliten.'

So if we assume with Wächter he means Guardian in the US sense of an orbital capability it would be a significant step up in ambition.