INTRO TO NAVSCI

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INTRO TO NAVSCI

• Surface Warfare Community
• Professionals At Sea

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Learning Objectives

• The student will . . .
• Understand the contribution of the surface forces
  to the overall mission of the Navy.
• Understand the types of training received in
  Surface Warfare Officer School (SWOS) and special
  occupation schools.
• Recall the types of job assignments available for
  junior officers in the surface Navy.

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Learning Objectives

• The student will . . .
• Explain what is expected of a junior officer
  aboard a ship.
• Be familiar with the surface warfare officer
  career path and opportunities including the
  requirement for joint duty.
• Describe the designations and terms used to
  identify Navy ships.

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Learning Objectives

• The student will . . .
• Recall the ships included in the warship
  category.
• Identify the characteristics, capabilities, and
  missions of various types of naval ships.
• Recall the purpose and use of underway
  replenishment in the Navy.

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Missions of the Surface Navy

• 1. Strike warfare (Power Projection)
• 2. Antisubmarine warfare (ASW)
• 3. Anti-Air warfare (AAW)
• 4. Anti-Surface warfare (ASUW)
• 5. Amphibious warfare
• 6. Naval gunfire support (NGS)
• 7. Mine warfare
• 8. Logistic support

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Strike Warfare

• Power projection
• Carrier assets
• Surface Navy must protect this asset!
• Air wing
• Main tactical striking force of the Navy
• Most effective weapon for AW, SUW, STRIKE
• Tomahawk missile
• Strike capability for shore and inland targets
• Can carry up to a 1,000 lb. warhead

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Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW)

• Primary players
• DDGs and FFGs
• CGs also, but more suited for AW
• LAMPS helicopters (SH-60B/F)
• S-3B Vikings Aircraft (being phased out)
• Supporting assets
• P-3 Orion Aircraft
• SSNs

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Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW)

• Detection vs. Kill
• Detection
• Sonobuoys
• SONAR
• Visual contact
• Kill
• Torpedoes (Mk-46, Mk-48, Mk-50)

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Anti-Air Warfare (AAW)

• Long range aircraft and anti-ship cruise missiles
  present real threat.
• Layered Defense
• Carrier Battlegroup is protected by its
• F/A-18 Hornets
• E-2C Hawkeyes (Overhead surveillance and air
  intercept controllers)
• Long range Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) from CG
  or DDG
• Short range missiles (SAMs) and guns ships
  weapons
• CIWS

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Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW)

• Weapons
• Missiles
• Harpoon gt 800 miles
• Penguin gt 25 miles
• Guns
• 5/54 lt 15 miles
• Aircraft
• LAMPS MK III Helos

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LAMPS MK III

• SH-60 B/F Seahawk
• Launched from
• CG, DDG
• FFG, CVN
• Roles include
• ASW, ASUW (OTH-T)
• SAR, CSAR, cargo lift, spec ops, drug interdiction

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Over the Horizon Targeting (OTH-T)

• Uses an airborne asset to lock onto an enemy
• Ships missile uses airborne radar to home in.
• SH-60 B/F
• E-2C Hawkeye

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Amphibious Warfare

• Put Marines on the beach! Power projection -
• Transportation
• Deployment

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Naval Gunfire Support (NGFS)

• Support of forces once on shore
• WWII BB
• Now 5/54, 76mm mounts

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Mine Warfare

• Mines
• Cheap, low-tech method of warfare
• Used by countries hostile to U.S.
• Iran, Iraq
• Mine Countermeasures
• MCM
• MCS

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Mine Warfare

• MCM
• mine hunter-killers
• fiberglass sheathed
• wooden hull
• MCS (USS Inchon) (DECOM)
• converted LHA
• Command Control
• 8 CH-53E helos
• 2 SAR helos

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Logistic Support

• Oilers
• Supply Ships
• Repair Ships

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Fleet Organization

• Task Force/Task Group
• Expeditionary Strikegroup (ESG)
• Surface Action Group (SAG)
• Amphibious Task Force (ATF)

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Task Force/Task Group

• Task Force
• Large collection of ships under one command
• Has the capability to perform
• USW NGFS
• AW Mine Warfare
• SUW Logistic Support
• Amphibious Warfare

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Task Force/Task Group

• Task Group
• Smaller part of a Task Force
• Focused around one of these missions
• Limited capability in other missions

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Fleet Organization
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Carrier Battlegroup

• Mission
• To support the Carrier Air Wing
• Composition
• (1) CV/CVN
• (2) CG (AW, STRIKE)
• (2) DDG (USW, SUW)
• (2) FFG (USW)
• (2) SSN (USW)
• (1) AOE (Replenishment)

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Surface Action Group (SAG)

• Mission
• To engage enemy surface ships
• To perform interdiction ops
• Composition
• (1) CG
• (2) DDG
• (2) FFG

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Amphibious Task Force (ATF)

• Gator force
• Mission
• Transport ground forces and put them ashore.
• Evacuate U.S. nationals from hostile areas.
• Composition
• One or more Amphibs
• DDG, FFG escort (USW, AW defense)

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Ship Types
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Aircraft Carrier (CV/CVN)

• Mission
• Provide Forward Presence
• Support its embarked Air Wing
• Capabilities
• CIWS
• NATO Sea Sparrow
• RAM - Rolling Airframe missile

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Aircraft Carrier (CV/CVN)

• Classes
• Nimitz (CVN-68)
• Enterprise (CVN 65)
• Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
• JFK (CV-67)

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CRUDESSMALL BOYS
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Cruisers (CG-47)

• TICONDEROGA Class
• Primary Mission
• AAW runs the air war
• Battle Control
• Secondary Mission
• ASW
• ASUW

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Cruisers (CG)

• Capabilities
• AEGIS (SPY-1)
• Tomahawk, Standard Missile shooters (VLS)
• Harpoon
• LAMPS III Capable
• (2) 5/54 mounts

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Destroyers (DD/DDG)

• Mission
• AAW
• ASW
• Screens for task groups

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Destroyers (DDG-51)

• ARLEIGH BURKE Class (DDG-51)
• ASW, AAW, ASUW
• Capabilities
• AEGIS
• SM-2, Harpoon, Tomahawk
• Mk-46 Torpedo
• 5/54, CIWS

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Destroyers (DD-963)

• SPRUANCE Class (DD-963)
• Primarily ASW
• Harpoon, TLAM
• Mk-46 Torpedo, (2) 5/54, CIWS
• NATO Sea Sparrow

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Frigates (FFG)

• Oliver Hazard Perry Class (FFG-7)
• Escort duty
• ASW, ASW, ASW
• Capabilities
• (2) SH-60/B Seahawks or most current version
• SM, Harpoon
• Mk-46 torpedo
• 76mm gun mount
• CIWS

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GATOR NAVY
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Amphibious Command Ship

• BLUE RIDGE Class (LCC 19)
• Weapons
• Two 20-mm Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS
• Four 50 cal machine guns
• USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Seventh Fleet Flagship,
  Yokosuka, Japan
• USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) Second Fleet
  Flagship, Naples, Italy

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Amphibious Assault Ships

• WASP Class (LHD-1)
• Capabilities
• Well deck
• Flight deck
• Weapons
• Two Mk 29 Sea Sparrow launchers
• Two RAM Mk 31 SAM
• Two 20-mm Mk 15 Mod 13 Phalanx CIWS
• Eight 50 cal machine guns

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Amphibious Assault Ships

• TARAWA Class (LHA 1)
• Capabilities
• Flight deck
• Well deck
• Weapons
• Two RAM Mk 31 SAM
• Two 20-mm Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS (I x 2)
• Eight .50 cal machine guns

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Amphibious Transport Ship

• AUSTIN Class (LPD 4)
• Capabilities
• Flight Deck (6 CH-46s)
• Well Deck
• Weapons
• Two 20-mm Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS
• Eight .50 cal machine guns

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Amphibious Transport Ship

• WHIDBEY ISLAND Class (LSD 41)
• Capabilities
• Flight Deck
• Well Deck
• Weapons
• Two 20-mm Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS
• Six .50 cal machine guns

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ANCHORAGE Class (LSD 36)
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HARPERS FERRY Class (LSD 49)
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Littoral Warfare Ships

• Faster more versatile
• Brown water missions SEAL to maritime recon
  to MIO to counter drug ops
• Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Freedom class

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LCS
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LOGISTICS
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Fast Combat Support Ships

• SACRAMENTO Class (AOE-1)
• Delivers fuel, stores, and ammunition to underway
  units, primarily carrier task groups. 
• Capacity of 177,000 barrels of fuel, 2150 tons of
  munitions, 500 tons of dry stores, and 250 tons
  of refrigerated stores. 
• Embarks two CH-46 helicopters for vertical
  replenishment operations.
• Weapons NATO Sea Sparrow, MK15 CIWS,
  SLQ-32(V)3, MK 36 DLS.

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Fast Combat Support Ships

• SUPPLY Class (AOE 6)
• Delivers fuel, stores, and ammunition to underway
  units. 
• Capacity of 150,000 barrels of fuel, 1800 tons of
  munitions, 400 tons refrigerated cargo, and 250
  tons of dry stores.
• Embarks three CH-46 helicopters for vertical
  replenishment operations.
• Weapons NATO Sea Sparrow, MK15 CIWS, SLQ-32(V)3,
  MK 36 DLS.

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Special Operations Craft

• Mission
• coastal patrol and interdiction surveillance
• littoral operations
• Forward...From the Sea
• mission support for Navy SEALs and other special
  operations forces

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Patrol Combatants (PC)

• CYCLONE class (PC-1)
• Capabilities
• 25 mm machine guns
• .50 caliber mounts
• grenade launchers
• Stinger missiles

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Other Surface Forces

• Fleet support ships
• Salvage ships (ARS)
• Fleet tug (T-ATF)
• Auxiliaries
• Hospital ships (T-AH)
• Surveying ships (T-AGS)
• Oceanographic research ships (T-AGOR)
• Cable repair ships (T-ARC)

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Potential Test Questions

• What are the missions of the Surface Navy?
• Describe the ship types weapons used for
• AAW
• ASW
• ASUW
• STRIKE
• NGFS

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Potential Test Questions

• What is the primary mission of a
• Carrier battlegroup?
• Surface action group?
• Amphibious task force?

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Potential Test Questions

• List all of the toys carried by
• Nimitz class CVN
• Ticonderoga class CG
• Arleigh Burke class DDG
• Spruance class DD
• Perry class FFG