Virginia-class nuclear subs a better option
By Tom Lewis*
Australia's submarine acquisition program has spent several billion dollars and not seen a metre of steel cut yet. That’s not a bad thing....
Reduced US ships plan to help China
The proposed U.S. Navy shipbuilding budget for fiscal 2021 contains only good news for China. The threat of a larger U.S. Navy has disappeared....
Argentina’s crippled Navy
By Trevor Hollingsbee
Argentina’s naval force, the Armada de la Republica Argentina (ARA) has a long and proud history. For many years the ARA...
Getting the most of our naval shipbuilding capability
Dr Marcus Helluyer*
The government’s Naval Shipbuilding Plan (NSP) was released three years ago in May 2017. It laid out how the government would deliver...
US Navy to rescue as Med refugee deaths soar
The U.S. Navy kicked off Exercise Phoenix Express 2021 at La Goulette naval base in Tunis, Tunisia — a move that coincided with the...
US Navy to get F16s to fill gap
The U.S. Navy is preparing to receive F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets from the Air Force as it moves to rid its inventory of...
US Navy charting new course after problems
The Navy’s speedy littoral combat ships had propulsion failures. The gun on its stealthy destroyer is a dud because of expensive ammo. Its newest...
Second US frigate class at $544m
A year after the Navy issued a contract to begin production of the first frigate in the new Constellation class, officials announced the service...
Biggest US naval exercise in a generation
Tens of thousands of sailors and Marines will participate in the biggest U.S. naval exercise in a generation to test how the services will...
US littoral ships’ short life
Just more than a decade after they entered naval service to great fanfare as the future face of the U.S. Navy, the first two...