2017 U.S. Navy Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Ships, and Equipment: Updated Program Guide

380 Pages·2016·16.49 MB·English

2017 U.S. Navy Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Ships, and
Equipment: Updated Program Guide - Aircraft, Jets, Carriers,
Submarines, Missiles, Electronics, Surface Combatants, Science,
Technology
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CONTENTS
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2017 NAVAL PROGRAM GUIDE
SECTION I: NAVAL AVIATION
SECTION 2: SURFACE WARFARE
SECTION 3: SUBMARINE FORCE
SECTION 4: EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
SECTION 5: INFORMATION WARFARE
SECTION 6: SUPPLY AND LOGISTICS
SECTION 7: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
The U.S. Navy is ready to execute the Nation's tasks at sea, from prompt
and sustained combat operations to everyday forward-presence,
diplomacy and relief efforts. We operate worldwide, in space,
cyberspace, and throughout the maritime domain. The United States is
and will remain a maritime nation, and our security and prosperity are
inextricably linked to our ability to operate naval forces on, under and
above the seas and oceans of the world.
To that end, the Navy executes programs that enable our Sailors,
Marines, civilians, and forces to meet existing and emerging challenges
at sea with confidence. Six priorities guide today's planning,
programming, and budgeting decisions: (1) maintain a credible, modern,
and survivable sea based strategic deterrent; (2) sustain forward
presence, distributed globally in places that matter; (3) develop the
capability and capacity to win decisively; (4) focus on critical afloat and
ashore readiness to ensure the Navy is adequately funded and ready; (5)
enhance the Navy's asymmetric capabilities in the physical domains as
well as in cyberspace and the electromagnetic spectrum; and (6) sustain
a relevant industrial base, particularly in shipbuilding.
Our mission begins with these priorities in consonance with our overall
charge "to conduct prompt and sustained combat incident to operations
at sea." In today's security environment, we find ourselves looking ahead
to a new reality of a more globalized world, with myriad state and non-
state actors on the stage, and global forces that directly relate to our
efforts at and from the sea. These forces include increased traffic in all
aspects of the maritime world, including open oceans, constricted seas,
and other waterways from the sea floor to space. The return to great
power competition, accompanied by our competitors' increased
capabilities and high-end warfighting systems, and the increasing
capabilities of international terrorist groups threaten our forces ashore
and in the littoral.
We will continue to faithfully serve our Nation along with our primary joint
partner, the U.S. Marine Corps. Together we are America's "force in
readiness," prepared to promptly respond to contingencies, crises, and
conflicts anywhere America's people, interests, and partners are at risk.
Since 2014, we have continued our rebalance to the Pacific while
maintaining our global commitments in every sea and ocean. Our
partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region are crucial to safeguarding the free
flow of goods, services, ideas, and access to the global maritime
commons on which our Nation, allies, and partners rely. Throughout the
Middle East, our forward-deployed naval forces assist our partners
maintain peace, manage change, deter aggression, and address threats
to stability in one of the world's key energy-producing regions. In Europe,
our forward-deployed forces have supported partners throughout the
region with afloat and ashore missile defense, and participate in
exercises across the European region to ensure maritime security and
stability.
Some of the program highlights since the last Program Guide was
published in 2015 include the commissioning of the first DDG 1000, the
USS Zumwalt; continued production of Virginia-class nuclear-powered
fast-attack submarines; sea trials for the Gerald Ford, our next nuclear
aircraft carrier class leader; and continuing progress in capabilities such
as Aegis Ashore in Romania, NIFC-CA From-The-Sea, SM-6 missiles in
multiple modes, F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, P-8A Poseidon
multi-mission maritime patrol aircraft, and many others.
We will balance future investments in these and emerging programs to
ensure we are prepared to execute today's missions and unknown tasks
in the future, all while maintaining the discipline of budgetary
responsibility. We have aligned strategic and fiscal choices to achieve
optimal warfighting capability without compromising the mission. The
2017 Navy Program Guide reflects those values. It is our duty to ensure
that our Fleet will continue to meet the Nation's needs with people,
platforms, and payloads ready for today and as far into the future we can
see.
SECTION I: NAVAL AVIATION
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
CVN 68 Nimitz-Class and CVN 78 Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Programs
AIRCRAFT
AH-1Z and UH-1Y Helicopter Upgrades
AV-8B Harrier 11+ Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) Aircraft
C-2A Greyhound Logistics Support Aircraft
C-40A Clipper Navy Unique Fleet Essential Airlift (NUFEA)
C-130T Hercules Intra-Theater Airlift Aircraft
CH-53E Super Stallion Helicopter
CH-53K King Stallion Heavy-Lift Replacement (HLR) Helicopter
CMV-22B Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
EA-6B Prowler Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Aircraft
EA-18G Growler Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Aircraft
F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
F/A-18A-D Hornet Strike-Fighter Aircraft
F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Strike-Fighter Aircraft
KC-130J Hercules Tactical Tanker and Transport
MH-60R/S Seahawk Multi-mission Combat Helicopter
MH-53E Sea Dragon Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM)
Helicopter
MQ-25 Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System
MV-22B Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
P-3C Orion Modification, Improvement, and Sustainment.
P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA)
Naval Aviation Training Aircraft
Service Secretary Controlled Aircraft/Executive Airlift (SSCA/EA)
VH-92A Presidential Replacement Helicopter
AVIATION WEAPONS
AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM)
AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW)
AIM-9X Sidewinder Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (SRAAM)
AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM)
Joint Direct-Attack Munition (JDAM, GBU-31/32/38)
Laser JDAM (GBU-54)
Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare Increment 1 (OASuW Inc 1)
Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)
Paveway II Laser-Guided Bomb (LGB)
Dual-Mode LGB (GBU-10/12/16) and Paveway III (GBU-24) LGB
AVIATION SENSORS AND SYSTEMS
Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Next-Generation Jammer (NGJ)
ALQ-214 Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM)
ALR-67(V)3 Advanced Special Receiver (RWR)
APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar System
AAQ-24 Department of the Navy Large Aircraft
Infrared Countermeasures (DoN LAIRCM) System
ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking InfraRed (ATFLIR)
Sensor
Joint Mission Planning Systems (JMPS)
SECTION 2: SURFACE WARFARE
SURFACE WARSHIPS
CG 47 Ticonderoga-Class Aegis Guided-Missile Cruiser Modernization
DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-Class Aegis Guided-Missile Destroyer
DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-Class Aegis Guided-Missile Destroyer
Modernization
DDG 1000 Zumwalt-Class 21st-Century Destroyer Frigate (FF)
Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)
PC 1 Cyclone-Class Patrol Coastal Modernization Program
SURFACE WEAPONS
Mk 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS)
Mk 38 Mod 2 Stabilized 25mm Chain Gun
Mk 45 Mod 4 5-Inch/62-Caliber Gun System Upgrade
Mk 46 Mod 2 Gun Weapon System (GWS)
Mk 51 Gun Weapon System (GWS)
Mk 54 Lightweight Torpedo (LWT)
Mk 60 Griffin Missile System (GMS)
RGM/UGM-109E Tomahawk Land-Attack Missile (TLAM)
RIM-7, Mk 57 NATO Seasparrow Surface Missile System (NSSMS) and
RIM-162 Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM)
RIM-66C Standard Missile-2 Blocks III/IIIA/IIIB
RIM-116A Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM)
SM-6 Standard Missile 6 Extended-Range Active Missile (ERAM) Block
I/II
U.S. Coast Guard Navy-Type / Navy-Owned (NTNO) Program
SURFACE SENSORS AND COMBAT SYSTEMS
Aegis Ashore
Aegis Combat System (ACS)
Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)
Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR)
Enterprise Air Warfare Ship Self-Defense Test and Evaluation
Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mission Packages (MPs)
Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense Planning System (MIPS)
Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) From the Sea (FTS)
Navigation Systems
Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (ABMD)
Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS)
SPQ-9B Radar Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) Radar
SPY-1 (Series) Aegis Multi-Function Phased-Array Radar
SPY-3 Advanced Multi-Function Radar (MFR)
SPY-4 Volume Search Radar (VSR)
SQQ-89 Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Combat System
Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD)
Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System (TTWCS)
Theater Mission Planning Center (TMPC)
SURFACE EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS
Authorized Equipage List (AEL) and Naval Security Forces Vest (NSFV)
Biometrics / Identity Dominance System (IDS)
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Dismounted
Reconnaissance, Sets, Kits and Outfits (CBRN DR SKO)
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense-Individual
Protection Equipment-Readiness Improvement Program (CBRND-IPE-
RIP)
Improved (Chemical Agent) Point Detection System (IPDS)-Lifecycle
Replacement
Joint Biological Tactical Detection System (JBTDS)
Next-Generation Chemical Detection (NGCD)
Next-Generation Diagnostics System (NGDS)
Total Ship Training Capability (TSTC)