FY23 US ship-building plan set for failure
By Matthew Hipple*
“About 300 ships, achieved in FY2018, will provide a force capable of… assuring access in any theater of operations, even in the...
Way to sink China’s weaponised merchant ships
This month, gCaptain reported the U.S. Air Force demonstrated a lethal new weapon that could provide a low-cost and more widely-available alternative to sinking...
Austal unveils new range of OPVs
Austal unveiled a new range of offshore patrol vessels at Indo Pacific 2022. Based on the in-service Evolved Cape Class Patrol Boat, the "Offshore...
Crew suffer in refit nightmare
It's an extraordinary tale of tragedy and neglect that has consumed one of America's massive aircraft carriers and turned into a nightmare for the...
More Russian warships attacked
The Ukrainian Government has announced that its forces have badly damaged the Russian frigate Admiral Makarov with at least one Neptune missile and in a separate attack...
Primer on hypersonic weapons
Probably sparked by the use of hypersonic missiles in the Russian-Ukraine War the US Congressional Research Service has released a primer on these weapons. It...
Fossil fuel as warfare’s weak link
By Lt. Col. Theodore “Doc” Shanks and Alexander Gard-Murray*
While the world witnesses Russia’s senseless and shockingly muddled invasion of Ukraine, military logisticians around the globe are drawing a collective...
Australia should make long-range missiles
By Graeme Dunk*
In a recent article on this forum, Peter Dean argued that a rethink of the Australian Defence Force’s land-based strike requirements is...
Understanding the price of military equipment
By Marcus Hellyer*
Confusion reigns in discussions about the cost of the Department of Defence’s equipment projects. Whether we’re talking about media articles, parliamentary committee hearings,...
New mine and cyber research efforts
Naval Group Belgium inaugurated two new research and development laboratories in Brussels this week, focusing on novel mine countermeasures and cybersecurity, Defense News reports.
Officials...