... have been developed.
In the United States, carrier-based aircraft continue to play the role of the main strike power within the Navy’s general purpose forces, but this is also starting to change. First off, the development of light forces and their weapons ... ... the development of smart naval mines that can form consistent sweeping-proof mine barriers and are capable of blocking enemy fleets inside their home stations or isolating the combat zone, thus throttling the most probable lines of approach. Mine countermeasures ...
... complicated.
The fates of the ships that were built as part of Project 1143 were various. The majority of them left Russia, with China purchasing three in one go. One ship was sold to South Korea (for metal scraps); another was bought by the Indian Navy (to be upgraded and introduced into the fleet under the name
Vikramaditya
); a third ship (the
Ulyanovsk
) was dismantled for scrap at a shipyard in Ukraine; and a fourth one remained a part of the Russian Navy (the
Admiral Kuznetsov
). Officially, China purchased the aircraft carriers so ...
... from Russia’s borders.
Prospects for Russian Navy amphibious forces development in the wake of the cancelled Mistral contract: ships and equipment
Recent events testify to the fact that the experts promoting the idea of developing the Russian Navy first and foremost as a coastal fleet, capable of controlling the 200-mile exclusive economic zone in peacetime and of defending our seacoast during the war, proved to be wrong.
Russia has political and economic interests away from its shores. Moreover, it has overseas allies and rendering ...
... correction of mistakes, a retrieval of lost opportunities and a facilitation of future transitions to rule out failures when aircraft are decommissioned in the absence of replacement.
Royal Navy
Britain has traditionally taken great pride in its Royal Navy, while after the Second World War it became second to the American fleet, and in two decades after massive decommissioning with no adequate replacement to major aircraft carriers, its key strike asset, fell third after the Soviet naval force. But now, for the first time in several decades, the Royal Navy seems to on ...
... the Argentinean armed forces in the war of 1982. Brazil still supports Argentina in its territorial dispute with the United Kingdom.
The countries of the region are also concerned over the symbolic gesture by the United States to revive the U.S. 4th Fleet (U.S. Navy command in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1943–1950, which was reestablished in 2008). The Brazilian president, along with the state leaders of Argentina and Venezuela, condemned the move, saying that the initiative by the U.S. mighty signal that ...
Trends in the Development of the U.S. Naval Surface Forces
Trends in the Development of the U.S. Naval Surface Forces
Surface ships, primarily cruisers and destroyers, are the “work horses” of the U.S. Navy and in many ways the foundation of its combat stability. But it would not be an exaggeration to say that they receive less attention from the media, the expert community, the military establishment and the United States Congress than their more successful ...
Outlook for the US Navy’s UCLASS Programme
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) website has already raised the
issue of naval unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
. The American Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) programme is ...
... and excellently trained seamen.
The Korean «Island»
Throughout the 2000s, the Republic of Korea successfully completed a range of ambitious ship-building projects aiming at establishing a relatively small, but modern and battle-worthy blue-navy fleet. With virtually the same number of personnel, the level of naval craft sophistication was constantly increasing. The reason lay partly in the slight reduction of the threat posed by North Korea, which lost some of its strength compared to South ...
... which Rostov-on-Don-based Gorizont, Inc. demonstrated in 2011 at the International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg. The company assembles the UAV under the license of Austrian Schiebel. These drones are already actively exploited by the
French Navy
and the fleets of other countries, including, according to some reports,
China
.
"
Gorizont Air
" is a helicopter-type UAV with a maximum take-off weight of 200 kg, which can be used for day and night patrols, surveillance and monitoring on land and ...
