Australia to arm PNG patrol boats
At the request of Papua New Guinea, the Australian Defence Force has agreed to arm the Papua New Guinea Defence Force’s four new Guardian-class...
Tanks for first time in RAN amphibious exercise
Exercise Sea Explorer has concluded with about 1800 ADF personnel taking part and for the first time the tactical deployment of M1A1 Abrams tanks...
US Navy seeks to unleash unmanned systems
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is producing an after-action review of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 (IBP21), an exercise...
Sweden’s stealthy submarine
Sweden's new submarines might be the world's stealthiest.
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Ballarat feels force of US Navy Growlers
HMAS Ballarat’s crew felt the full force of eight United States Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft when they flew overhead during the ship’s Regional...
US Navy names ship USS Canberra
The Navy will christen a ship made in Alabama on Saturday, naming it after Australia’s capital city, military.com reports.
The littoral combat ship will be...
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...