Category: Amphibious assaults

The Italian Navy orders 3 new large LXD assault ships of 16.500 tons

The Italian Navy has become, for fifteen years, the priority of the military effort of Rome, so as to make it not only the most powerful naval force of the Mediterranean basin, but also in many aspects, of the old continent, by surpassing the French Navy and the very powerful Royal Navy in this area. To do this, Rome relies on the very dynamic industrial group Fincantieri, and on sustained investments. Thus, since 2007, the Marina Militare has admitted to service 2 anti-aircraft destroyers of the Horizon class, 8 FREMM frigates of the Bergamini class, 3 heavy patrol boats equivalent to PPA frigates of the…

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Modern Assault Helicopter Carriers: The Aero-Amphibious Threat Below the Horizon (Part 2)

As we saw in the first part of this article, the assault helicopter carriers, a hybrid ship combining a powerful naval air capability through a straight flight deck and a large hangar making it possible to implements a fleet of maneuver and combat helicopters, as well as an amphibious capacity through a raft that can accommodate landing craft or assault hovercraft, have appeared to respond to the proliferation of coastal batteries equipped with missiles anti-ships capable of targeting any ship above the horizon. However, if the electromagnetic horizon constitutes an effective protection against this type of threat, it imposes a constraint…

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The Marine Corps and the US Navy clash over the sizing of the US amphibious fleet

Rightly considered an elite unit within the US forces, the US Marine Corps relies on numerous specific capabilities dedicated to the autonomous execution of aero-amphibious missions. Thus, the corps has, beyond the infantry and assault forces, its own armored vehicles, its own artillery systems, its own anti-aircraft defense, as well as an air fleet made up of more 350 F/A-18 E/F, F-35B and AV-8B combat aircraft, almost 700 CH-53, AH-1, UH-1 and MV-22B helicopters as well as several hundred drones. On the other hand, the transport of the marines and their equipment is ensured by the ships of the US Navy,…

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Modern Assault Helicopter Carriers: The Aero-Amphibious Threat Below the Horizon (Part 1)

If amphibious operations are, compared to land, naval and even air battles, few in history, they have often had a considerable impact on the course of conflicts. Whether it is Torch operations (North Africa ), Overlord (Normandy) and Dragoon (Provence) against Nazi Germany, American landings on the Pacific islands against Japan, or that of Inchon during the Korean War, all enabled the balance of power to be reversed and greatly influenced the conduct of the war. Conversely, certain failures such as the landing of Anzio in Italy, or that of the Dardanelles during the First World War, led to a critical stalemate of…

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China's fleet conducted its first long-range amphibious exercise

If the rapid reinforcement of the Chinese fleet is now known to all, the very important efforts made by the People's Liberation Army to train its crews and perfect their mastery of modern naval combat, are much less so. However, whether surface, naval air, amphibious, logistics and submarine units, all take part in numerous exercises according to increasingly advanced scenarios, and often calling on the firing of ammunition, precisely to increase the seasoning of sailors and their officers. Thus, it is now common for large naval units, destroyers, frigates, aircraft carriers or assault ships, to participate each year in several...

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China could not seize Taiwan militarily in 2026 according to simulations

While the attention of European leaders and soldiers is now quite logically focusing on Russia and on the direct and induced consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, American strategists are above all committed to anticipating the evolution of the political standoff and potentially military between Washington and Beijing in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The main subject of friction between the two world superpowers is none other than the island of Taiwan, which has been autonomous since 1949 after the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, defeated by the communist forces of Mao Zedong, left the continent. to install an autonomous government on the island. If, during the 90s and…

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Facing China, Taiwan resizes its army by bringing conscription to one year

It is tempting to draw a parallel between the situation in Ukraine prior to the launch of the Russian "Special Military Operation" on February 24, and the present situation in Taiwan living under the increasingly pressing threat of military intervention. Chinese. Indeed, in both cases, these democratic countries face authoritarian regimes with considerable military means, whereas in the absence of a firm alliance treaty and due to a certain complacency on the part of the West vis-à-vis vis-à-vis Beijing and Moscow against a backdrop of economic interests, they are struggling to modernize their armies. Very few Western countries outside of the United States have or had the…

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The new Taiwanese submarine will be launched in September 2023

Since the normalization of relations between the West and Beijing from 1995, the island of Taiwan, autonomous since 1949, and claimed by the People's Republic of China since that date, has encountered increasing difficulties in modernizing its defense tool. Indeed, the Chinese authorities perfectly knew how to handle a very attractive carrot, the Chinese economic potential for Western companies, and a powerful stick, the immediate and severe deterioration of diplomatic and economic relations, if one of its Western partners were to intervene in the modernization of the Taiwanese armies. This strategy proved to be extraordinarily effective, all of Taiwan's traditional defense partners,…

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DARPA chooses General Atomics to design its Liberty Lifter transport Ekranoplane

Last May, the Pentagon's research and development agency, DARPA, announced the launch of a program intended to design a brand new strategic transport device, based on the Ekranoplan concept. These amphibious devices use the ground effect, i.e. the over-pressure which is created between the wing and the ground when an aircraft is flying at very low altitude, to increase their lift, allowing them to carry very heavy loads. important at high speed, while consuming less fuel. If the concept had been studied in the 60s and 70s, particularly in the Soviet Union, to design strike aircraft...

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South Korean Navy takes on expanded strategic role in face of evolving North Korean nuclear threat

Until the end of the 2010s, the threat posed by North Korea's strategic systems was essentially made up of nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, with short-range systems from the SCUD family, then, from the start of the 2000s, the appearance of purely national systems, such as the medium-range ballistic missile Hwasong-7 or Nodong-1. From the second half of the 2010s, new high-performance indigenous systems were tested by Pyongyang, whether ballistic missiles with a semi-ballistic trajectory like the KN-17, intercontinental missiles like the Hwasong- 14, and even ballistic missiles at…

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