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...
Japanese helicopter sea trials
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has begun sea trials of its helicopter carrier JS Kaga (DDH 184) after undergoing major modifications of the...
Philippine-Indian naval exercise
On 13 December the Indian Corvette INS Kadmatt and the Filipino frigate BRP Ramon Alcarazconducted a maritime partnership exercise in the West Philippine Sea....
HMS Spey visits India
Royal Navy warship HMS Spey has followed in the footsteps of sister vessel HMS Tamar and made her inaugural visit to India, Forces Net...
RAN ship exercises with Philippines in SCS
An Australian warship caught up in a dangerous sonar incident with the Chinese military has begun joint naval patrols with the Philippines in an...
Kiwi Sea Ceptor Missile Firings
Last week (Dec 2023) the frigate HMNZS Te Mana conducted two Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missile firings in the East Australia Exercise Area, which completed...
Philippines envisages more US-PN patrols
On 24 November the Philippines Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary, Mr Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said the Philippines and the United States would hold...
Navy shines in NCIS: Sydney episodes
Navy people, ships and aircraft added authenticity and action to NCIS: Sydney, the first international edition of the highly successful US television series. The opening...
UK carrier boundaries widened
The world’s most advanced naval jets have departed Britain’s biggest warship having laid the groundwork for expanded carrier operations in the future.
After four weeks...