Ireland goes for combat-design ship
Ireland’s long-planned acquisition of a €300 million Multi-Role Vessel (MRV) has stalled as the Naval Service reportedly pushes for a more combat-capable design. The...
Chinese jets intercept Japanese P-3C Orions
China’s unprecedented deployment of two aircraft carrier groups this summer provided Japanese surveillance aircraft with a wealth of information about the ships, a Japanese...
Supply chain critical for defence
By Jeremy Stredwick*
Australia’s most advanced military capabilities are fundamentally tethered to the resilience of its most basic civilian supply chains. For decades, Australia’s national...
What’s with Russia’s crippled submarine
By Tom Sharpe*
A Russian diesel-electric submarine is currently on a surface transit of the North Sea being escorted by the Dutch Navy. The Novorossiysk is...
Time for an unconventional Australian defence posture
By Sally Burt, David Kilcullen, Ian Langford and Andrew Maher
As Australia prepares its 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS), the nation must recognise that a window of...
China’s underwater electronic net
By Tye Graham and P.W. Singer*
The People's Liberation Army is building an “invisible net” across the western Pacific, a five-layer, seabed-to-space sensor architecture known...
Towed sonar changes submarine hunting
Towed array sonar is a sinuous cable of hydrophones trailed astern of warships and submarines, a technology that has taken ASW from speculative hunting...
Royal Marines stop drug boat with one shot
Royal Marines have crippled a high-speed drugs boat with a single, pinpoint sniper shot in one of the most dramatic counter-narcotics operations the Royal...
Mogami deal with Japan huge on several countsi
By Robert Farley*
Australia in August inked a deal to purchase 11 new frigates from Japan. The sale was noteworthy not only for the hypermodern...
Time again for battleships?
By Tom Sharpe*
If you like warships then you will have a fondness for battleships. It’s impossible not to. Their size, their lines, their massive...