{"id":18084,"date":"2015-02-02T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=18084"},"modified":"2015-02-03T21:45:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T10:45:42","slug":"introducing-sea-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/introducing-sea-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Sea State: a weekly maritime security update"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Neptune\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

Ahead of ASPI\u2019s Australia\u2019s Future Surface Fleet Conference<\/a> (30 March to 1 April, here in Canberra) we\u2019ll be bringing you a new feature: a weekly update on maritime strategy and security issues, from here in Australia and internationally.<\/p>\n

First, it\u2019s worth noting the recent visit<\/a> by Australia\u2019s new Defence Minister, Kevin Andrews, to Australia\u2019s Government-owned ship builder the Australian Submarine Corporation. He agreed to meet with South Australian State Defence Industries Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith, after initially declining the meeting. The South Australia government and Hamilton-Smith have been vocal supporters<\/a> of local shipbuilding. Here\u2019s the press release<\/a> and the transcript<\/a> of the Minister\u2019s remarks from the visit, during which he said:<\/p>\n

The Australian Government has not yet decided on a particular submarine design and more work is required before such a decision is made. Decisions about this next generation of submarines need to be made on the basis of what is best for our Armed Forces and our national security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The visit had a particular resonance following then-Defence Minister David Johnston\u2019s remarks in November last year that he \u2018wouldn\u2019t trust [the ASC] to build a canoe\u2019\u2014a statement the Senator later<\/a> said he regretted.<\/p>\n

For those interested in a bit more reading, ASPI has a long-standing interest in this issue, and there\u2019s recent work here<\/a> and here<\/a> on the topic, as well as a lot of material on The Strategist <\/em>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Further north, Taiwan\u2019s Navy is bulking-up. It took delivery<\/a> recently of a 20,000-tonne fast combat-support ship, the Panshih.<\/em> That comes on the heels of the December 2014 delivery<\/a> of the prototype of a stealthy catamaran (Tuo Jiang<\/em> class), which will be only 500 tonnes, but will carry eight supersonic anti-ship Hsuing Feng III<\/a> missiles.<\/p>\n

North again, the South Korean Navy received<\/a> its third Incheon<\/em> class guided-missile frigate earlier in January, which is to be commissioned in May.<\/p>\n

And turning to the US, an operational concept by any other name\u2026 AirSea Battle has had a makeover, and is now called the Joint Concept for Access and Manoeuvre in the Global Commons (JAM-GC). The name change was announced in a memo from the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Staff Director<\/a>. The concept formerly known as AirSea Battle will now be run from the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Staff J-7 directorate, which looks after joint force development.<\/p>\n

The USN\u2019s focus on the western Pacific continues, with the announcement<\/a> that it will forward-deploy a Ticonderoga<\/em> class guided-missile cruiser to Japan this year. That\u2019ll be the first ship deployed to the region that uses the newest version<\/a> of the Aegis System, designed to provide both air and missile defence at the same time.<\/p>\n

China inducted its newest frigate, another Type 054A<\/a>, into the East Sea Fleet earlier in January. The \u2018A\u2019 variant has upgraded anti-air defences compared to the baseline Type 054.<\/p>\n

Finally this week\u2014of interest to strategists on both sides of the Pacific, and to anybody considering the purchase of new submarines\u2014the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington has a new paper, The Emerging Era in Undersea Warfare<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today, many American leaders assume quiet U.S. submarines can access almost any ocean area, even those defended by enemy A2\/AD systems. New ASW technologies and improvements to non-nuclear undersea platforms, however, will likely enable adversaries to complement their surface and air A2\/AD networks with undersea surveillance and attack systems. These may not have the reach of anti-ship ballistic missiles or modern surface-to-air missiles, but they have the potential to make the undersea littorals of a potential adversary an increasingly denied zone. Consequently, unless U.S. forces adapt to and lead the new competition, the era of unrivalled U.S. undersea dominance could draw to a surprisingly abrupt close.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ASPI\u2019s Andrew Davies flagged some of those themes last year<\/a> at our conference on the submarine choice.<\/p>\n

Harry White<\/a> is an analyst at ASPI. Image courtesy of Flickr user enki22<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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