USNS Mercy heads to Indo-Pacific
Medical and dental personnel aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy got underway Tuesday from San Diego for an annual humanitarian mission in the Indo-Pacific,...
Exercise Sama Sama 2023
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey, Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer JS Akebono, the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Vancouver, the Royal Navy...
RNZAF Poseidon finds missing Fijian fishermen
A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-8A Poseidon crew found three Fijian fishermen nine days after they were reported missing aboard their 8.5-metre...
Five-power air, land, and sea exercise
Australia has commenced its contribution to Exercise Bersama Lima 2023 with the exercise opening in Malaysia last week, Asian Pacific Defence Reporter reports. The...
HMS Queen Elizabeth heads north
The huge British warship HMS Queen Elizabeth will sail to northern Norway in the “near future”, according to Norwegian navy spokesperson Thomas Gjesdal, the...
Three RAN vessels steam north
The Australian Defence Force is continuing to contribute to regional security, with three Royal Australian Navy ships to conduct a regional presence deployment throughout...
Inaugural Australia-India-Indonesia maritime exercise
Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob*
The first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) joint military exercise, code-named ASEAN Solidarity Exercise 2023 (ASEX 2023), has just ended....
ASEAN’s first military exercise
The first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) joint military exercise, called ASEAN Solidarity Exercise 2023 (ASEX 2023) was conducted during 19-23 September in...
Exercise SIMBEX 23 underway
The annual Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) is underway in waters off Singapore. This is the 30th iteration of the exercise since the inaugural...
Chinese carrier grouping shadowed
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy Shandong Carrier Strike Group is operating in the Philippine Sea, being shadowed separately by Republic of China Navy...