LHDs in scandalous state
By David Uren*
The Defence budget squeeze has starved the Royal Australian Navy of sustainment funding. We see this in the scandalous state of two...
Freedom of navigation questions
By Euan Graham*
A freedom-of-navigation activity that the Australian and British navies jointly conducted near the Spratly Islands last month was notable. It was the...
Go home: US official to HMS Prince of Wales
An influential figure in the American government is not pleased about the Royal Navy flagship being deployed to the Indo-Pacific, the Portsmouth News reports.
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US N-sub visits Iceland
The port visit of USS Newport News (SSN 750) to Iceland on 9 July marks the first time a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine has docked...
US jet’s quick refuel on UK carrier
HMS Prince of Wales has welcomed a foreign visitor – a US Marine Corps F-35B – as Carrier Strike Group 25 prepares to take...
India commissions diving support ship
On 8 July the Indian Navy commissioned INS Nistar. She is the Navy’s first indigenously designed and constructed Diving Support Vessel with a local...
Chinese aircraft carrier’s Hong Kong Visit
The People's Liberation Army-Navy 70,000 tonne aircraft carrier Shandong has completed a port visit to Hong Kong during 3-7 July. As part of the...
HMS Astute heads for revamp
The first chapter in the career of Royal Navy hunter-killer submarine HMS Astute is over. The second awaits to be written as the first...
Japan’s new railgun naval weapon
Japan may soon succeed where many countries, including the US, failed. More than a century after the first theoretical models of the railgun were...
An extraordinary frigate
By George Allison
As HMS Glasgow moves through the final stages of construction at BAE Systems’ Scotstoun shipyard, the Royal Navy’s newest frigate is already...