Australia’s need for guided missiles
By Marcus Hellyer*
Last year’s war between Azerbaijan and Armenia was short, sharp and decisive. By effectively employing precision guided weapons, the former rapidly forced...
Huge fleet heads out from UK
Final preparations have been made as HMS Queen Elizabeth gets ready to sail on her 26,000 nautical mile maiden deployment on May 1, Forces Net reports.
The £3.2bn aircraft carrier...
RN’s South Atlantic environmental mission
HMS Forth has taken bomb disposal specialists to South Georgia as part of a mission to protect the island's wildlife, Forces Net reports.
The patrol...
Submarine loss: ‘No one can fight nature”
With incredible candour, Indonesian navy first petty officer Setyo Wawan opened up on national television about the toll his job placed on his family.
“The...
Indonesian sub loss: lessons for Australia
By Denis Mole*
The loss of any submarine should be a catalyst for countries with submarines to review the likely causes and responses to determine...
US cruiser’s new exercise with drone
The U.S. Navy is pairing an MQ-9B Sea Guardian drone with a guided-missile cruiser capable of firing anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine missiles as a...
India set to begin Attack class program
The PowerPoint presentation by navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh at the combined commanders’ conference in Kevadia, Gujarat, on March 6 this year had been...
Osprey lands on Mercy
A V-22 Osprey conducted its inaugural landing on the new and improved flight deck of USNS hospital ship Mercy this month (April 2021), the Navy...
The submarine nuclear option
By Denis Mole*
In Adelaide’s The Advertiser newspaper on 7 March, former defence minister Christopher Pyne said, ‘Then there is the nonsensical argument that the...
2040 and beyond: new defence technologies
Flying battle suits, swarms of combat drones and advanced artificial intelligence might be exciting on the big screen, but Defence is treating similar concepts...