A new risk model for mine counter operations
Copyright © 2020, Proceedings magazine, U.S. Naval Institute, reprinted with permission. www.usni.org
By Captain Scott Craig, Royal Australian Navy*
Marine warfare is often the “wicked problem”...
Autonomous systems: warship, torpedo or naval mine?
Naval industries are edging closer to the development of unmanned maritime platforms with lethal autonomous capability—lethal autonomous maritime systems (LAMS). The emergence of LAMS...
Italian carriers with little to carry
She squeezed through the narrow channel at the Maritime Military Arsenal in Taranto, Italy, all 27,000 tons of her. It was May 6, and the Italian aircraft...
Fifth HMAS Sydney commissions at sea
On 18 May, due to the coronavirus restrictions, the new destroyer HMAS Sydney became the first warship to commission at sea.
Previously only the stores carrier...
Japan’s new hypervelocity missile
It travels toward its target faster than five times the speed of sound, making course corrections nearly impossible to track, and carries a “Sea...
Halves of HMAS Arafura come together
Just shy of 18 months after the start of construction and one year since the official keel-laying ceremony for the Navy’s new first-of-class offshore patrol vessel, the two...
US ship incident near Paracels
Chinese authorities said they sortied ships and aircraft to “track, monitor, verify, identify and expel” a U.S. warship from the Paracel Island chain in...
US selects Italian design for frigates
By David B Larter of Defense News
The U.S. Navy’s newest surface combatant has Italian heritage, the Navy has announced Thursday.
In a major win for...
$350 million for six new patrol boats during COVID-19
Six new patrol boats will be built under a fast-tracked $350 million Defence project that aims tosecure hundreds of jobs during the COVID-19...
Has Attack Class cost gone up? Part 2
By Marcus Hellyer*
In the first part of this series, we saw that by late 2015, before the Defence Department had received industry responses in the competitive...