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Debate over USS Fitzgerald collision still misses point about broken US Navy procedures

2019-02-12 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

The debate about the USS Fitzgerald accident is still off track. The interesting discussion is what to do about the fact that the US Navy has deficient navigation procedures.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Navigation and seamanship, USA

Assessment of the radio traffic before “Helge Ingstad” collided and sank

2018-11-18 By Anders Puck Nielsen 2 Comments

A few comments on the radio traffic before the Norwegian frigate “Helge Ingstad” and the tanker “Sola TS” collided, and the warship sank. This recording will go over in history as an example of how not to avoid an accident.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Navigation and seamanship, Norway

Norwegian frigate “Helge Ingstad” sinks after collision

2018-11-08 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

The Norwegian frigate “Helge Ingstad” is sinking after a collision with a Maltese tanker. It is a surreal event to observe. Will be interesting to hear more details about what went wrong. Here are a few quick thoughts.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Navigation and seamanship, Norway

Article recommendation: The Status Quo Killed 17 US Sailors. The Navy Must Change.

2018-06-08 By Anders Puck Nielsen 1 Comment

Jon Paris makes a compelling case that the U.S. Navy needs to change its education system and introduce specialized career paths for engineering and operations. This step is well overdue. The idea that one can have the responsibility of either engineering or navigation of a large warship with a one-size-fits-all educational background is just mind boggling.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Navigation and seamanship, USA

Comparison between U.S. and U.K. naval officer training

2018-03-08 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

There is an interesting comparison of U.S. Navy and Royal Navy Officer Training in the March edition of Proceedings. Dr. Anthony Wells has experience from both navies and insights into their training programs. In short, Wells is not impressed by the U.S. seamanship education. He suggests the U.S. Navy can learn a lot from their […]

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Navigation and seamanship, United Kingdom, USA

Things to look for in near future for Russian Baltic Fleet: Return of AGI and naval exercise

2018-02-21 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Intelligence ship Fyodor Golovin (AGI) of the Russian Baltic Fleet has been relieved off Syria and is now returning to the Baltic Sea. That reported Russian military news site flot.com on Tuesday. Fyodor Golovin was replaced on duty by the intelligence ship Ekvator of the Black Sea Fleet. Russia has had a shortage of intelligence […]

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Baltic Fleet, Navigation and seamanship, Russia

Homicide charges for US warship collisions are a big mistake

2018-01-18 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Four officers from USS Fitzgerald and one from USS John S. McCain including both commanding officers will face criminal charges for negligent homicide. As Navy Times notes, this is a very rare step, and now the internet is boiling over with discussions about it. I think the criminal charges are a big mistake.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Navigation and seamanship, USA

Critical review of lessons from US warship collisions

2017-11-03 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

The US Navy’s report on recent collisions of USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain fails to see the true shortcomings of seamanship and procedures.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Navigation and seamanship, USA

Jamming of phones and GPS during Zapad causes concerns

2017-10-27 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Did Russia jam GPS signals in Norway and phone services in Latvia and Sweden and during exercise Zapad in September? Apparently there are many indications that they did, and now Secretary-General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg has expressed his concerns about the Russian demonstrations of electronic warfare capabilities. Ideally, military units have redundant systems so they […]

Filed Under: Cyber Warfare Tagged With: Latvia, NATO, Navigation and seamanship, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Worrying initiatives to improve navigational safety in US Navy

2017-09-29 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

The US Navy attempts to improve navigational safety in the wake of a series of accidents involving ships from the Pacific Fleet, reports Geoff Ziezulewicz for Navy Times after obtaining a command message outlining some of the initiatives. The list of revised procedures does give grounds for some worry, though. It starts off well enough. […]

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Navigation and seamanship, USA

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