Marine américaine dans le futur.

[alexandreVBCI]

Pour la première fois dans l’histoire de l’US Navy, trois femmes viennent de recevoir leur insigne de sous-marinier, ce qui leur confère le statut d’officier sous-marinier qualifié.

Après un processus rigoureux d’un an de formation suivi par une année à la mer, leur réussite marque l’éclatement du plafond de verre des forces sous-marines.

Suite : http://www.corlobe.tk/article31124.html

[xav]

Austal delivers first Joint High Speed Vessel - USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1)

The first Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV), USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1), was officially delivered by Austal to the United States Navy on 5 December. The signing event was attended Craig Perciavalle, Sr. Vice President of Austal USA, representing the builder. The USNS Spearhead successfully completed Acceptance Trials in September and will sail away later this year.

http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=779

[alexandreVBCI]

Huntington Ingalls Industries a livré le 7 décembre, à la marine américaine, le futur USS Arlington (LPD 24). Il s’agit du huitième transport de chalands de débarquement du type San Antonio (LPD 17), et la troisième unité de cette classe à être réceptionnée par l’US Navy en moins de 12 mois.

Suite :

http://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/lus-navy-prend-livraison-de-son-8eme-san-antonio

[xav]

General Dynamics NASSCO Lays Keel of Second Mobile Landing Platform Ship (MLP)

General Dynamics NASSCO hosted a keel laying ceremony for the second Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) ship at the company's San Diego shipbuilding facility. Ms. Lyn Glenn, daughter of John Herschel Glenn, Jr., the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, and Mrs. Helen L. Toolan, wife of Lieutenant General John A. Toolan, Jr., Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force, were the honorees for the ceremony.

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The MLP is a flexible platform that will provide capability for large scale logistics movements such as the transfer of vehicles and equipment from sea to shore. It will significantly reduce dependency on foreign ports and provide support in the absence of any port, making it especially useful during disaster response and for supporting Marines once they are ashore. The MLP in its basic form possesses a core capability set that supports a vehicle staging area, sideport ramp, large mooring fenders and up to three landing craft air cushioned vessel (LCAC) lanes.

http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=782

Ingalls Shipbuilding Delivers Amphibious Transport Dock Arlington (LPD 24), San Antonio Class

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the amphibious transport dock Arlington (LPD 24) to the U.S. Navy. Arlington is the eighth ship in the LPD 17 class of ships Ingalls has delivered to the Navy.

http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=781

[xav]

Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Hits the 90 Percent Mark for Structural Completion

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has reached 90 percent structural completion in the building of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).

The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) reached 90 percent structural completion with the addition of a 140-foot long, 391-metric ton sponson, one of the largest to be erected

Gerald R. Ford represents the next-generation class of aircraft carriers. The first-in-class ship features a new nuclear power plant, a redesigned island, electromagnetic catapults, improved weapons movement, an enhanced flight deck capable of increased aircraft sortie rates, and growth margin for future technologies and reduced manning. Ford has been under construction since November 2009. The ship is scheduled to launch in 2013.

http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=799

[Philippe Top-Force]

Justement Xavier puisque tu nous parle du CVN 78 classe Ford, voici un rapport du Congrès US http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RS20643.pdf

Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier

Program: Background and Issues for Congress

[alexandreVBCI]

Boeing a indiqué hier que l'US Navy lui avait passé commande de deux avions de transport de type C-40A 'Clipper'. Le montant de l'affaire est de 145 millions de dollars, soit environ 110 millions d'euros.

Pour mémoire, le C-40A 'Clipper' est une version militaire du B737, en l'occurrence le B737-700 de dernière génération. Il permet de transporter des troupes et/ou du matériel.

Ces deux appareils seront les 13 et 14èmes Clipper dont l'US Navy prendra livraison dans le cadre de son programme de remplacement des transports de la réserve de la Navy, les anciens C9-B, dérivés du McDonnell Douglas DC-9.

http://www.zonebourse.com/THE-BOEING-COMPANY-4816/actualite/Boeing-l-US-Navy-commande-deux-transports-C-40A-de-plus-15710479/

[alexandreVBCI]

Un nouveau projet de la DARPA :

The Navy wants to build unmanned platforms that it can place in the depths of the the world’s oceans to  have them float to the surface when the military needs the supplies or equipment stored within them.

http://defensetech.org/2013/01/16/undersea-pods-to-hold-us-war-supplies/#more-19157

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Marrant. Y'a quelques années j'avais écris un what-if qui présentait une station de stockage de munitions sous-marines pour l'US Navy dans un futur pas si lointain. A l'époque je m'étais juste inspiré de la station Ragnar dans Battlestar Galactica. Je n'aurais jamais pensé que cette idée puisse être déjà quelque part dans les cartons de quelqu'un.

[Henri K.]

La marine américaine, japonaise et australienne mènent un exercice conjoint du 4 au 15 Février au Guam, le nom de l'exercice est "Confronter le Nord 2013"...

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgA0UhZhBgM

Henri K.

[Philippe Top-Force]

Ce n'est pas la marine du futur ,mais le futur du mur fiscal US et ses premières conséquences http://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/un-porte-avions-americain-cloue-au-port-faute-de-credits-pour-sa-refonte

[Henri K.]

Jane's...

Advanced Hawkeye cleared for full-rate production

Gareth Jennings

  London

The Pentagon has approved full-rate production for the Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, the company announced on 11 February.

The decision by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) follows a successful 10-month initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) campaign conducted by the US Navy (USN).

To date, Northrop Grumman has delivered 9 low-rate initial production (LRIP) E-2Ds to the USN, with another 11 aircraft in various stages of manufacturing and pre-delivery flight testing. Initial operational capability (IOC) remains on track for 2015.

The E-2D is the latest variant of the Hawkeye carrier-based AEW&C aircraft that has been in US naval service since the mid-1960s. Improvements on the legacy platforms include the more powerful Lockheed Martin AN/APY-9 active mechanically and electronically scanned array (MESA) radar that is designed to provide 360-degree coverage against hostile aircraft and cruise missiles.

The current plan will see the navy's Fleet Replacement Squadron, Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 120 (VAW-120) 'Gray Hawks', based at Naval Air Station Norfolk, train flight crews and system operators before they transition to operational squadrons.

Operational USN E-2C AEW&C squadrons set to transition to the E-2D comprise VAW-112 'Golden Hawks', VAW-113 'Black Eagles', VAW-115 'Liberty Bells', VAW-116 'Sun Kings' and VAW-117 'Wallbangers', based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Point Mugu, California; and VAW-121 'Bluetails', VAW-123 'Screwtops', VAW-124 'Bear Aces', VAW-125 'Torch Bearers/Tigertails' and VAW-126 'Seahawks', based at Norfolk, Virginia. VAW-77 (Reserve) 'Night Wolves' will also operate the type out of NAS Joint Reserve Base New Orleans.

To date, France has expressed an interest in replacing its current E-2Cs with the E-2D, and unconfirmed media reports suggest that Japan may be looking to do the same. India also is evaluating the E-2D to fulfil its medium maritime AEW&C requirement. Northrop Grumman officials have told IHS Jane's that the production line will be able to accommodate export orders from 2018.

Copyright © IHS Global Limited, 2013

USMC programmes at stake if budgetary shortages persist

Grace Jean

  Washington, DC

Key Points

   Under the Continuing Resolution, the USMC cannot procure its Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar as planned in the FY13 budget.

   Budgetary shortfalls would delay JLTV and could jeopardise ACV procurement plans.

Several US Marine Corps (USMC) procurement programmes are incurring costly schedule delays as a direct result of lawmakers' failure to pass the Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) defence appropriations bill, the service's top resourcing officer said on 12 February.

The USMC had planned to begin in FY13 buying Northrop Grumman's AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), a mobile ground-based multirole radar in development since 2009 to provide air defence and to carry out short-range air defence (SHORAD) and air surveillance missions.

Not only was the programme ahead of schedule but a system had also been delivered in July 2012 to the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) on Wallops Island, Virginia, for operational testing.

However, the lack of an FY13 appropriations bill is delaying the projects to the point where it could trigger a report to Congress under the Nunn-McCurdy Act, which regulates programme schedules and costs, Lieutenant General John Wissler, USMC deputy commandant for programmes and resources, said during a Navy League meeting near Washington, DC.

"So now a programme that was on track - and we were ready to go and making great headway - stands a very real opportunity of having a Nunn-McCurdy schedule breach sometime in Fiscal Year 2014, not because there's a single problem in the programme," Gen Wissler said, but because of the delays associated with the Continuing Resolution (CR), a stop-gap budget measure currently funding the government.

Moreover, the testing is being carried out by a civilian acquisition workforce that might be furloughed for as many as 22 days later this year if mandatory spending cuts, known as sequestration, go into effect on 1 March.

An initial production decision for the G/ATOR programme was expected in 2013, to be followed by low-rate initial production for eight systems. Full-rate production was scheduled to commence in 2016, to coincide with the initial operational capability of the Air Defence Radar.

The USMC has also been investing in two vehicle programmes, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) and Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) to replace its ageing fleets of Humvees and Amphibious Assault Vehicles respectively. But the cutbacks in spending would delay the systems' procurement and could make them cost-prohibitive to buy, said Gen Wissler.

"We needed to buy JLTV early and fast so that we could have head space in our procurement budget to buy ACV later," he added. "The slowdown as a result of CR and sequestration will cause us to stretch that programme to the right. I don't know how far. But every day beyond the beginning of where we would buy ACV there are less JLTVs that I can afford to buy. Or I have to push off a decision on ACV, ultimately making that vehicle more expensive. There is no good decision."

USMC leaders had testified before Congress in late 2011 that they would defer acquisition of JLTV to the 2020s if sequestration occurred, in favour of developing and procuring ACV first. But Gen Wissler said the USMC's FY13 budget did not contain enough research money to keep ACV on track.

On the aviation side, he said V-22 Osprey manufacturer Bell Boeing had arrived at "one of the best" multiyear procurement opportunities for the programme. The USMC plans to buy 17 MV-22Bs in FY13, 18 in FY14, 19 in both FY15 and FY16, and 18 in FY17.

The previous V-22 multiyear procurement contract awarded in March 2008 was valued at USD10.4 billion.

Although Gen Wissler declined to provide details on the potential MV-22 multiyear procurement plans, he warned: "If we don't get that multiyear opportunity because we don't get a [FY13 appropriations] bill and further degrade money in the programme because of sequestration, it will cost us an extra USD1 billion to buy those airplanes back."

Copyright © IHS Global Limited, 2013

Henri K.

[Henri K.]

La marine américaine a intercepté avec succès un missile balistique MRBM de simulation dans un essai avec un SM-3, le système d'alerte avancée spatiale DSP devrait avoir été utilisé pour transmettre les coordonnées au destroyer qui a tiré le SM-3.

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFaMnJWfna0

Henri K.

[Henri K.]

Henri K.

[alexandreVBCI]

Les opérations de l’US Navy affectées par les problèmes budgétaires :

http://www.opex360.com/2013/02/17/les-operations-de-lus-navy-affectes-par-les-problemes-budgetaires/

[Chronos]

Dites donc avec une hélice battant au dessus du pont et l'autre trois quarts au dessus de la flotte ça doit pas poser de sérieux problèmes de stabilité aux V22 dans leurs phases les plus délicates de pilotage (décollage et appontage) ?

[FATac]

Dites donc avec une hélice battant au dessus du pont et l'autre trois quarts au dessus de la flotte ça doit pas poser de sérieux problèmes de stabilité aux V22 dans leurs phases les plus délicates de pilotage (décollage et appontage) ?

Je ne sais plus où j'ai lu que les Osprey devaient utiliser l'axe de la ligne jaune pour s'aligner au décollage et à l'apontage, et pas le centre des spots hélo. Ainsi les 2 rotors restent au dessus du pont et il n'y a pas de dissymétrie majeure dans la portance.

[Henri K.]

Jane's...

AUVSI Program Review 2013: USS George H W Bush targeted as next carrier for X-47B at-sea trials

Grace Jean

  Washington, DC

The US Navy's (USN's) newest Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will host the next at-sea trials of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D), an official announced on 13 February.

Rear Admiral Mathias Winter, the USN's programme executive officer for unmanned aircraft and strike weapons (PEO U&W), said that the X-47B is being prepared to go on board USS George H W Bush (CVN 77), the tenth and final Nimitz-class carrier, in the April to May timeframe, depending on carrier schedules and fall-out from the US budgetary crisis.

The Northrop Grumman-built autonomous aircraft completed its first at-sea tests in December 2012 on board USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75). During the two-week trial period, sailors directed the tail-less aircraft in taxiing trials on the flight deck and also handled the vehicle in the hangar bays.

Harry S Truman was scheduled to deploy to the US Central Command area of responsibility in the Gulf region earlier this month, but its departure was scrapped due to budgetary constraints. It will remain in Norfolk, Virginia, on standby ready to surge if necessary.

Officials from the X-47B programme previously told IHS Jane's that the at-sea trials in mid-2013 could include the first under way catapult launch and recovery of the system. According to UCAS-D programme manager Captain Jaime Engdahl, the team had been prepared to launch and recover the X-47B on board Harry S Truman , but due to scheduling conflicts with ongoing carrier qualifications, it did not take place.

Ground-based catapult launches of a second X-47B aircraft took place at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, in late 2012. The team "demonstrated control continuity and data rate consistency to ensure we could launch this thing, get it to end speed, fly away into the up-and-away mode and come back around," Rear Adm Winter said at AUVSI's Unmanned Systems Program Review 2013 held near Washington. "So [there have been] a lot of successes at demonstrating the technologies, the conops, and the digital messaging that's required to be able to do this on a ship."

The UCAS-D programme will inform the USN's Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) system, which is currently in its pre-solicitation phase. Adm Winter said that the Department of Defense had recently formalised the requirement for the system and that the Capability Development Document (CDD) would be formally approved by the end of February.

"We've been given not an affordability goal, but an affordability mandate, and we're going to follow that. That's driving appropriate interfaces for business strategy, contracting strategies and scope of verification and validation," said Adm Winter. "Those are the three elements that tend to grow programmes. We're going to manage that from minute one."

USN officials expect to release the programme's competitive request for proposals in the 2013 to 2014 timeframe.

Copyright © IHS Global Limited, 2013

STSS-D satellites, SM-3 missile join for intercept

Daniel Wasserbly

  Washington, DC

Key Points

    STSS-D satellites were used for a launch-on-remote missile intercept from a Ticonderoga-class cruiser

    The test saw a SM-3 Block IA interceptor successfully engage a unitary medium-range ballistic missile target, according to MDA

The US Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system intercepted a ballistic missile target using launch-on-remote technology and a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IA guided missile during a 13 February test, officials said.

According to the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the unitary medium-range ballistic missile target was detected and tracked by an in-orbit Space Tracking and Surveillance System-Demonstrators (STSS-D) satellite constellation, which forwarded data to USS Lake Erie (CG 70).

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser is equipped with a second-generation Aegis BMD weapon system, and engaged the target by a launch-on-remote doctrine, meaning the tracking data came from a remote source, in this case an STSS-D satellite constellation.

STSS-D, an experimental space layer of MDA's overall ballistic missile defence system, is a grouping of two satellites that employ sensors capable of detecting visible and infrared light.

Lake Erie used STSS-D data to develop a fire control solution and about five minutes after the target was launched, the ship fired the SM-3 Block IA guided missile, which flew to a designated point before releasing its kinetic warhead that is designed to acquire the target re-entry vehicle and destroy it with a direct impact, MDA explained.

Information from the satellite constellation is relayed to the ship through a Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications system, and the crew can then launch the SM-3 based on this track data and before the ship's organic radar acquires the target, Raytheon said in a separate statement. The company is the prime contractor for SM-3 and provides sensors for STSS-D.

"Initial indications are that all components performed as designed," MDA said, adding that next programme officials "will assess and evaluate system performance based upon telemetry and other data obtained during the test".

The test was meant to demonstrate that space-based assets can provide "mid-course fire control quality data" to an Aegis BMD ship in order to bolster the system's range so it can defend larger areas, said MDA.

COMMENT

As the sea-based component of the MDA's wider ballistic missile defence system, Aegis BMD is designed to counter short- to intermediate-range, unitary, and separating, midcourse-phase ballistic missile threats with the SM-3 interceptor, according to the agency. It is also designed to counter short-range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase with the SM-2 Block IV missile.

In 2013 the US Navy is working to build port and support facilities in Rota, Spain, in order to base four Aegis destroyers as part of the US' European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) anti-missile shield. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Ross (DDG 71), USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), USS Porter (DDG 78), and USS Carney (DDG 64) are to be forward deployed there by 2015.

Under the EPAA project, the Pentagon also plans to field interceptors and radars in Europe to protect US and NATO forces in the region against short- and medium-range threats.

A final phase of the EPAA is planned to leverage emerging technology to defend the US homeland against long-range missiles launched in Iran. However, in a recent study the National Academies' National Research Council - a private, congressionally-chartered non-profit institution - suggested that EPAA systems based in Europe would not be optimal for such a mission.

Meanwhile, Raytheon has said it is on track to deliver the SM-3 Block IB in 2015 for a BMD site in Romania that constitutes the second phase EPAA scheme.

Copyright © IHS Global Limited, 2013

Henri K.

[Nenel]

pour le tir du SM-3 en version french. on a eu ça la semaine dernière.

http://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/damb-lus-navy-tire-un-sm-3-en-utilisant-des-senseurs-spatiaux

[Perry]

Les temps sont durs pour tout le monde...

Le guide budgétaire 2014 dévoilé à l'US Navy par le Congrès semble indiquer que les achats d'un second SNA de classe Virginia ainsi que d'un second Destroyer sur cette année fiscale sont très compromis.

With Congress on a break — and no budget deal in sight — the Navy expects automatic spending cuts to take effect in March. These cuts would damage the industrial base and “strain” sailors, according to updated Navy budget guidance provided to Navy Times on Tuesday.

The service’s planning document echoes the dire warnings made last week by the Navy’s top officers and provides the best preview yet of the countless impacts that the cuts will impose on the fleet.

More on sequestration

The Navy faces dual budget crises this year: $4 billion in automatic “sequestration” spending cuts and $4.6 billion in cuts if the military continues to be funded at last year’s levels.

In the new guidance, the Navy says that the lack of a Pentagon spending bill impairs $5 billion in shipbuilding, a three-fold increase over the last estimate.

Under the document’s “impacts” section, the Navy states the continuing resolution will impose: “reduced forward presence,” “a damaged industrial base,” “increased strain and OPTEMPO on our sailors and civilians,” and “aircraft depot cuts.” The purchase of a second Virginia-class attack submarine and a second destroyer in fiscal 2014 would now be “unlikely.”

The sequestration cuts, the Navy warns, will pierce much deeper.

The Navy’s document says it will force the service to cancel 10 destroyer and frigate cruises; cancel the Bataan Amphibious Readiness Group deployment; halt work-ups for the Ronald Reagan and Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Groups; reduce exercises and port calls; defer repairs and cancel overhauls; and cancel F-35B testing aboard amphibious assault ship Wasp, among many other impacts.

NavyTimes.com

[alexandreVBCI]

Le premier d'une série de trois navires de soutien et de projection, les Mobile Landing Platform, l'USSN (US Naval Ship) Montford Point sera baptisé ce samedi à San Diego. Deux autres MLP sont en construction: l'USNS John Glenn (MLP 2) et l'USNS Lewis B. Puller (MLP 3).

Ces navires rejoindront les trois Maritime Prepositioning Force Squadrons. Longs de 240 m, déplaçant 80 000 t, ils ont une autonomie de 17 600 km. Ils peuvent accueillir trois LCAC (hydroglisseurs de débarquement) et transporter le matériel d'une brigade de combat.

Suite de l'article :

http://lignesdedefense.blogs.ouest-france.fr/archive/2013/03/01/l-usns-montford-point-premiere-mobile-landing-platform-bapti.html

[alexandreVBCI]

Un article et des photos sur meretmarine.com sur le Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) Montford Point :

http://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/la-premiere-mlp-americaine-baptisee

[pascal]

Un article de Prézelin qui fait un peu le tour de la question du format US Navy

http://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/focus-lus-navy-toute-puissante-pour-de-nombreuses-annees-encore

[collectionneur]

Malgré la chute libre en terme de navires en service depuis 2002, les USA ont réussi à augmenté un peu leur tonnage passant de 3 003 655 t à 3 191 885 :

[Philippe Top-Force]

Les conséquences du mur budgétaire pour la Navy http://www.corlobe.tk/article31979.html