Doubt cast on unmanned surface vessel
The US Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday has cast doubt on whether the Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel will have a place in...
Indonesian naval modernisation
On 20 April President Joko Widodo was present at PT Pal Shipyard in Surabaya for the announcements of both reforms to the commercial arrangements...
Construction begins on British Type 31 frigates
The keel was laid down in Rosyth of Venturer, the first general purpose Type 31 Inspiration class frigate. At 6,000 tonnes the Type 31...
Ararat trains with Ocean Protector
The crew of HMAS Ararat recently conducted interoperability activities with Australian Defence Vessel (ADV) Ocean Protector while deployed near the remote Australian territory of...
Chinese aircraft carrier video
The PLA-N has released a six minute promotional video featuring flight operations off the aircraft carrier Liaoning. The link to the video is at: http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2022-04/28/content_10151224.htm
Axe Hunter class, former RAN chief says
By David Shackleton*
In 2009, Australia’s government decided that it would replace eight Anzac-class frigates with nine ships optimised for anti-submarine warfare (ASW). There was...
New UK frigate under construction
A collection of videos and photographs show the current state of HMS Glasgow as the Type 26 Frigate is being built by BAE Systems...
US Navy to axe five Growler squadrons
The U.S. Navy is proposing to deactivate five electronic attack squadrons, or VAQs, that operate the Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack jet, roughly a...
US cruisers to go in five years
USS Vicksburg (CG-69) is in the middle of a $200 million repair period meant to keep the guided-missile cruiser in the fleet well into...
China’s first amphibious assault ship operational
In April the PLA-N's first Type-075 amphibious assault ship, the Hainan became operational.
This was China's first independently-built landing helicopter dock ship. It has the...