Operation Island Chief 2023
The multi-nation Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) sponsored Operation Island Chief 2023 concluded last week. The 12-day operation covered 18.2 million square kilometres...
UK-Indon air-to-air refuel exercise
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has conducted air-to-air refuelling training with the Indonesian Air Force for the first time, reflecting the close and...
Chinese monitors Talisman Sabre
Hundreds of Chinese satellites are currently passing over Australia collecting intelligence on military training activities involving the United States and other regional partners, the...
Coordination during Talisman Sabre
"We've just seen an awesome demonstration of firepower here, from different weapons platforms, from different nations. But importantly, all used the same battlefield command...
Big Russian Arctic exercise
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is on top of the world – inspecting the country’s Northern Fleet on 12 August, ahead of an exercise...
Inaugural Exercise Alon
Personnel from Philippine and Australian forces have embarked HMAS Canberra in Darwin in preparation for Exercise Alon, which is being conducted for the first...
Malabar: not just another exercise
By Jennifer Parker*
US President Theodore Roosevelt once said, ‘A good navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace’....
Ukrainians being trained in the UK
Royal Marines have spent more than six months training nearly 1,000 Ukrainian counterparts in the art of commando raiding and complex amphibious operations.
Specialist instructors...
Exercise Malabar 2023
For the first time Australia is hosting Quad partners India, Japan and the United States for Exercise Malabar. Originally a bilateral exercise between the...
Talisman Sabre exercise update
USS America (LHA-6) played a key role in the amphibious component of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2023, a massive multilateral training iteration that took place...