The aim of China’s third carrier
By Sam Roggeveen*
China’s launch of a new aircraft carrier, its third and the second built entirely at home, speaks to Beijing’s ambitions to become...
Australian Pacific patrol boats defective
Pacific island countries may halt the use of Australian-provided patrol boats after potentially serious defects were discovered, in a blow to a $2.1bn maritime...
Russian gas takes the Arctic route
According to the ship-tracking website Marine Traffic, the arctic LNG tanker Nikolay Yevgenov has arrived in the Pacific Ocean after transiting the Northern Sea...
Broader approach to undersea warfare
By Marcus Hellyer*
The hottest topic in Australia’s defence community right now is how to develop the Royal Australian Navy’s submarine capability. The decision to...
Maritime law-enforcement opportunity
By Anthony Bergin and Lee Goddard*
During the recent visit by Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles to Japan, the nations vowed to strengthen the interoperability of their...
Building overseas best n-sub option
By Marcus Hellyer and Andrew Nicholls*
In our previous post, we considered the likelihood of the US providing Australia with Virginia-class submarines this decade. Doing so would...
40 years of missiles and war at sea
By Steve Wills*
The recent loss of the Russian Navy guided missile cruiser RFS Moskva from a cruise missile strike called forth many comparisons to...
First Evolved Cape-class at home port
By Lieutenant Nancy Cotton
The Navy’s first Evolved Cape-class patrol boat (ECCPB), Australian Defence Vessel Cape Otway, was officially welcomed to its home port of...
Borrow a boat would quickly give Australia nuclear-powered subs
By Tom Lewis*
(This article is written for a general, rather than expert naval, audience)
The path to Australia acquiring nuclear submarines is perhaps being portrayed...
Melting Arctic ice could weaken Russian grip
With climate change rapidly opening up the Arctic to shipping, new trade routes could help reduce the shipping industry’s carbon footprint and also weaken...