high-intensity combat<\/a>, our crews need to be ready for that stress, and the question is, how are we going to prepare them?\u201d<\/p>\nTraining tweaks include crews going for a run or doing push-ups right before stepping into weapon simulators to get heart rates up, creating sensory overload by adding noise, smoke and drone swarms to simulations, and adding weapon malfunctions in drills, said Henry, who took on his current role last year.<\/p>\n
Henry says he adopted the idea of stress drills from the French Navy\u2019s special forces, the Commandos Marine, and is seeking to find out how American and Israeli forces include stress in their training.<\/p>\n
The goal for now is to dial up stress levels \u201cas high as possible\u201d to ensure that reflex actions are always the right ones, the training chief said. Henry said the challenge is the difficulty of putting people under such stress \u201cthat they feel like their final hour has come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The training division is trying to create the most disruptive environment possible in its simulators, so that personnel including gunners and missile operators \u201ccan mechanize their actions\u201d to ensure they\u2019ll be able to perform in combat whatever the situation, according to Henry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what it feels like to take a missile on the nose at four times the speed of sound,\u201d Henry said. \u201cSo we know where we start to get stressed, we know we have to prepare for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The most important lesson learned from the Red Sea is the need to be ready at all times, Adm. Harold Liebregs, commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy, told Defense News.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time when we could leave port, then build up and then see what mission we were going to do, that has changed,\u201d Liebregs said. \u201cIt\u2019s about training, but also about buildup. It\u2019s about everything becoming more and more realistic, and it starts with having your war plans ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liebregs said the officer who commanded the support ship Karel Doorman during its deployment in the Red Sea, Paul Bijleveld, is now the navy\u2019s commander for Sea Training, \u201cso all the lessons we learned there, he\u2019ll take onboard. Perhaps that is no coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Western navies lack combat experiences in terms of high-intensity naval war, said Capt. Bryan McCavour, deputy assistant chief of staff for information warfare at the United Kingdom\u2019s Royal Navy, who spoke on a panel with Henry. With fewer and fewer platforms in national fleets, ongoing problems with ship maintenance and availability, training is consistently getting compressed, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we\u2019re going to engender that war-fighting spirit and maintain it, and have that culture as a decisive factor in battle, we need to invest more time in high-end war-fighting training than I think we currently do,\u201d McCavour said.<\/p>\n
McCavour said it\u2019s been longer since the Falklands War than between that conflict and World War II, and \u201ccombat-ready naval forces in that sense maybe don\u2019t exist today in the way we think, because it\u2019s been a very long time since we had a high-end conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Russia was reminded of that lesson with the sinking of the cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea, and Western forces need to take that into account when they look at responding in the South China Sea or the High North around the Kola Peninsula.<\/p>\n
The Red Sea was also \u201ca little bit the rediscovery\u201d of low-end threats, with renewed focus on small-caliber weapons and cannons, and a pipeline of defensive layers including jamming, light missiles and laser-guided rockets, according to Henry, who directed the navy\u2019s annual Wildfire drone exercise to focus on saturation as well as the risk of friendly fire in a busy environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have a lot of things flying around you, and you open fire with other friendly units, we saw in the Red Sea that mistakes can be made,\u201d Henry said. \u201cSo we\u2019re working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The French Navy is furthermore training for combat while minimizing radio emissions, relying on adversary emissions to build situational awareness, according to Henry. The force is working to cut reliance on satellite positioning, helped by improved inertial-navigation systems as well as astral sights using the stars for positioning.<\/p>\n
Henry mentioned the \u2018Back to the \u201880s\u2019 exercises by the French carrier strike group, which entails forgoing satellite communications and instead using HF and UHF radio for comms, \u201cand above all, to be more frugal in our exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cyber warfare is the prime example of a threat likely to deprive naval forces of capabilities \u201cat the worst possible moment,\u201d according to Capt. Florian El-Ahdab, commanding officer of the French frigate Languedoc. He said preparing for eventualities such as loss of connectivity requires \u2018Back to 80s\u2019 type exercises and placing forces in situations of \u201cgreat discomfort.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s sailors reflect today\u2019s society, so if I took your smartphone away today and told you to go somewhere, I\u2019m not sure you\u2019d feel very comfortable,\u201d said El-Ahdab. He said \u201cit\u2019s the same thing\u201d for the navy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you take away all the tools available to the commander today, and all the amazing tools that are currently being developed, if I suddenly tell you that all of that is no longer available for one reason or another, how would you respond?\u201d El-Ahdab asked. \u201cThat seems like a very, very good challenge to explore.\u201d<\/p>\n
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