Big NATO exercise in the Med
As reported by NATO on February 26, 2024, in Catania, Italy, the Mediterranean Sea is the setting for a significant NATO exercise known as...
Coast Guard seeks bigger Pacific role
Admiral Linda L. Fagan, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), has been visiting allies in the South Pacific – such as Samoa,...
MILAN 2024 under way
India’s MILAN 2024 Multilateral Naval Exercise is underway. Scheduled from 19-27 February it is being held in and off Visakhapatnam the aegis of Eastern...
HMAS Warramunga in multi-national South China Sea transit
On 9 February it was reported that the frigate HMAS Warramunga conducted a multilateral transit through the South China Sea with US and Japanese...
Regional defence deployments resume
The Australian Defence Force has deployed a Royal Australian Navy warship to conduct the first regional presence deployment for 2024. The Anzac class frigate...
Expanded Nordic response exercise
The bi-annual winter wargame previously known as Cold Response has changed its name to Nordic Response, the Barents Observer reports. While Norway used to be...
Four uncrewed ships return from tests
The U.S. Navy completed its first deployment of four unmanned ships, which spent five months in the Pacific testing concepts for how to integrate...
RAAF in Guam ASW exercise
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has deployed to Anderson Air Force Base, Guam to participate in the United States Navy-led exercise Sea Dragon...
US-Philippine ties add to SCS tensions
Chinese fighter jets fired missiles in the South China Sea during exercises which coincided with joint-U.S.-Philippines military drills as a map shows the contested...
Border Force catches fishers, destroys boats
Thirty suspected Indonesian fishers have been placed in immigration detention following a targeted crackdown on illegal foreign fishing vessels in waters off Western Australia's...