Naval Articles

The only operational fifth-generation anti-ship missile of the West today is the Naval Strike Missile, shortly NSM. It has significant advantages over its previous generation counterparts. The NSM has gamechanger features in naval warfare.Background and the birth of Penguin...

The Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) provides images of objects in rotation concerning the radar. It is based on analysis of the received signal as a function of time and Doppler frequency. The result is a two-dimensional image. Time...

In the aftermath of World War I, sea command was gradually replaced with sea control. The use of the term sea control was a result of the gradual realization that the new technological advances, specifically mines, torpedoes, cruise missiles,...

The Aegis ballistic missile defence (BMD) system, carried out by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the U.S. Navy, gives Aegis cruisers and destroyers the capability to conduct BMD operations. Aegis ships can perform BMD operations by incorporating changes...

Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems unveiled its Sea Breaker missile on 30 June and described it as a 5th generation long-range, autonomous, precision-guided missile system that is highly effective against various high-value maritime and land targets. "Sea Breaker was...

The Principal Anti Air Missile System (PAAMS) is a joint program developed by France, Italy, and the UK for an integrated anti-air warfare system.The system is in service with the Royal Navy, French Navy, and the Italian Navy. The Sea Viper system is also known as PAAMS(S)...

According to the latest budget documents, the US Navy plans to outfit Zumwalt-class destroyers on each three with 12 hypersonic missiles. The Department of the Navy incorporated in its fiscal year 2022 budget proposal a request for funding to...

Distributed lethality is to become the newest paradigm shift in offensive surface combatNaval surface warfare is undergoing a period of rapid technological and operational change. During the nearly 30 years since the end of the Cold War, navies encountered...

Sonardyne has been leading a technical programme to develop a high-integrity secure waveform for acoustic communications, Phorcys, set up in response to a Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) requirement.The work, funded by the UK Ministry of Defence, via...

Network-centric warfare, also called network-centric operations or net-centric warfare, is a military doctrine or war theory that seeks to translate an information advantage, enabled in part by information technology, into a competitive advantage through the robust computer networking of...