US oldest operational warship in NZ
The amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge arrived in Wellington Harbor last week, marking a historic first visit to New Zealand for the U.S....
Rescue training in Arabian Sea
What would happen if an aircraft were forced to ditch, not in the water of the River Hudson – as depicted in the Hollywood...
Large Mediterranean strike exercise
Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has joined forces with an Italian carrier strike group, led by flagship ITS Cavour, to take...
China-Singapore Exercise Cooperation 2025
Ships of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLA-N) have conducted the two day China-Singapore Exercise Cooperation 2025...
Doubts over UK Pacific exercise
By Bill Sweetman*
Operation Highmast got underway in late April, as the British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales and supporting warships embarked on an...
UK Carrier Strike Group approaches the Mediterranean
On 29 April the Royal Navy reported that its flagship HMS Prince of Wales is leading warships, aircraft and a submarine of the UK...
ASWEX 2025 Wraps Up
By Lieutenant Marcus Middleton
The RAN’s largest and most complex anti-submarine exercise in more than a decade, ASWEX, has concluded off the West Australian coast....
Value of UK’s strike force into Indo-Pacific
On 22nd April, the HMS Prince of Wales left Portsmouth to join the Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 2025 (CSG2025) – named Operation HIGHMAST...
JMSDF begins Indo-Pacific deployment 2025
On 21 April units of the JMSDF sailed from Japan to conduct Indo-Pacific Deployment 2025 (IPD25). The deployment’s objectives are to improve the JMSDF...
Operation Sea Spirit
Operation Sea Spirit by Pakistan-led CTF 151 commenced on 21 April. The operation’s aim is to combat maritime piracy and armed robbery off the...