New magnetism submarine detection method
Finding a submarine beneath the ocean is one of the more difficult surveillance tasks in modern warfare. Sonar and sonobuoys can listen for underwater...
New shipyard for big Virginia-class parts
Anduril is establishing a new shipyard to manufacture parts for Virginia-class submarines in Baltimore County, Md., the company and the White Houseannounced, Breaking Defense...
Throttling Taiwan without a shot fired
By Christopher Eylward*
An armed naval blockade is categorised as an act of war under the United Nations Charter(Opens in new window), establishing a clear...
30 ships in exercise off Scotland
Medium-calibre guns will be fired at Cape Wrath as part of a multinational military exercise involving more than 30 ships and aircraft. Exercise Strike...
Who will repair sabotaged cables?
In June 2023, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, raised the prospect via the messaging app Telegram of ‘destroying our enemies’ ocean-floor...
UK to build submarine dry docks
Chancellor John Healey will announce today that, subject to a commercial competition, the floating dry docks required for RN nuclear submarine maintenance at Faslane...
Mine clearance ability still vital
By Admiral Massimo Vianello, Italian Navy (Ret.) and Master Chief Petty Officer Giovanni Giorguli, Italian Navy (Ret.)*
Introduction
Throughout naval history, few weapons have demonstrated the...
Powerful weapon that once worked failed
By Paul Pelczar*
For a moment on Saturday afternoon, among 100,023 people packed into the MCG (Opens in new window), it appeared our wait was...
Thames operation to prevent explosion
By Tim Cooper
It's just after 8am and I'm standing about 200 yards offshore on what is known as Queenborough All Tide Landing in the...
Democracies and Chinese deterrence
By Chris Hamer*
There is a distinct possibility of an enormous war breaking out in the next few years over a Chinese attempt to seize...