Chinese task group returns from 11-month deployment
On 24 January a People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) task group returned to its home port of Zhanjiang in south China's Guangdong Province, after completing...
HMAS Hobart joins Exercise La Perouse
HMAS Hobart has joined Exercise La Perouse 25, a French-led multilateral maritime training activity in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia, Australian Defence Magazine...
HMAS Brisbane returns home
On 6 January the destroyer HMAS Brisbane returned to Sydney after a five-month deployment, which included the successful launch of Australia’s first-ever Tomahawk cruise...
Pakistani warship seizes large drug shipment
On 1 January the Pakistan Navy (PN) reported that its replenishment ship PNS Moawin seized a large cache of narcotics during a counter-narcotics operation...
The naval year in the western Pacific
Several European nations conducted operational deployments to the Western Pacific this year, combining national strategies, international commitments and participation in the biennial Rim of...
Naval exercises in NW Indian Ocean
Warships of the Omani, Pakistani and Spanish navies have conducted exercises in the north-west Indian Ocean.
The warships were the Pakistani Zulfiquar class guided missile...
HMAS Brisbane fires Tomahawk missile
Australia has become only the third country in the world to acquire and fire a Tomahawk cruise missile. HMAS Brisbane fired a Tomahawk missile...
Greater US, Japan, Australia co-operation urged
America, Japan and Australia know their national security establishments must work more closely together, as reflected by a number of signed agreements and commitments....
Indo-Pacific Endeavour completes
On 5 December Indo-Pacific Endeavour (IPE), Australia’s flagship regional engagement activity, has come to a close with HMA Ships Adelaide and Stuart leaving Singapore...
Protecting Baltic seabed assets
Two NATO task groups and 15 NATO navies are currently working together in the Baltic Sea on a Finnish Navy-led exercise designed to integrate...