26 navies to join full RIMPAC in 2022
Navies from 26 nations will participate in the massive Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise that kicks off later this month in Hawaii, the...
Unmanned US Navy system heads to Indo-Pacific
The US Navy’s Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout – an autonomous, runway-independent helicopter system – has made its second operational deployment, and first deployment to the Indo-Pacific aboard...
Chinese naval task group bound for Gulf of Aden
On 18 May a PLA-N task group sailed from Zhoushan for a deployment to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somali. It...
Australia joins US Exercise Pacific Partnership 2022
Members of the Australian Defence Force are embarked in the US Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy to take part in Exercise Pacific...
Jervis Bay unmanned vessel exercise
Commencing today, HMAS Creswell and the waters of Jervis Bay will be the scene of a simulated, next generation naval battlespace – Exercise Autonomous...
USNS Mercy heads for Pacific mission
The hospital ship USNS Mercy recently steamed out of San Diego Bay, kicking off an annual mission focused on disaster preparedness and humanitarian assistance...
Ararat trains with Ocean Protector
The crew of HMAS Ararat recently conducted interoperability activities with Australian Defence Vessel (ADV) Ocean Protector while deployed near the remote Australian territory of...
Chinese aircraft carrier video
The PLA-N has released a six minute promotional video featuring flight operations off the aircraft carrier Liaoning. The link to the video is at: http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2022-04/28/content_10151224.htm
Viet-Russian exercises in the offing?
By Carl Thayer*
On April 19, RIA Nosvosti filed a dispatch from Vladivostok quoting the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO): “For the first...
PLA-N replenishment ship training video
Video has been released of the PLA Navy’s replenishment ship Chaganhu and the guided-missile destroyer Changsha conducting stern replenishment. View it here.