Cost advantage of unmanned vessels
With the Pentagon pitching a future naval force design that calls for as many as 240 unmanned and optionally manned ships on the surface...
USN and RN commit to AI and energy weapons
The U.S. Navy’s acquisition chief announced the establishment of the London Tech Bridge—the U.S. Navy’s first such innovation centre outside the United States, ukdj...
Naval Group’s first local manufacturing package
Naval Group has officially launched its first ‘Local Manufacturing Package’ expression of interest (EOI) to Australian industry – part of a package expected to...
A third aircraft carrier for India?
By Air Marshal M Matheswaran
The Indian military is undergoing what may be its most significant reorganisation since India’s independence, with considerable implications for its future...
China boosts N-subs shipyard capacity
As China pushes to become a blue-water power, nuclear-powered submarines are critically important to Beijing’s plan. Historically the Chinese Navy’s (PLAN) nuclear-powered submarine fleet...
190 US ships have covid cases
More than 190 U.S. Navy ships have suffered a COVID-19 outbreak this year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said in a message...
P8 in show-of-force flight
A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has been spotted flying a mission from Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa...
Struggle to keep US fleet up to spec
The U.S. Navy’s aging surface fleet is getting harder to maintain, and overall is showing declining health in several key areas, such as its...
Bangladesh’s new patrol boats
In a departure from conventional shipbuilding procedures, Bangladesh’s Khulna Shipyard Limited (KSL) has announced a “steel-cutting ceremony” for the navy’s second batch of five...
US’s drone subs and buoys in the Arctic
The U.S. Navy has awarded the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution a contract worth more than $12 million to develop unmanned undersea vehicles and buoys,...