RAN divers work on USS Vermont in WA
A Royal Australian Navy (RAN) clearance diving team has led underwater maintenance work on Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Vermont while alongside at HMAS Stirling.
Lieutenant Cantona...
Black Hawk up – uncrewed
Flying helicopters in contested environments is becoming increasingly hazardous, particularly as modern air defenses and electronic warfare systems grow more advanced. Traditional crewed operations...
Race to recover sunken aircraft
The US Navy is trying to recover two aircraft from the bottom of the South China Sea that US experts say could yield sensitive...
Questioning the big UK carriers
By Andrew Latham*
The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class carriers were written off not long ago as symbols of strategic confusion: too large for a modest...
Australia-Brunei maritime security dialogue
The Royal Brunei Navy (RBN), together with the Australian Defence Force (ADF), recently conducted the Maritime Security and Law Dialogue as part of Indo-Pacific...
Laser weapon being developed for Royal Navy
More than £300m is being invested in the Royal Navy’s first laser weapon after it downed high-velocity drones in latest trials. The success of...
Fujian begins carrier operations
The People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) announced on 18 November that its new 85,000 tonne aircraft carrier Fujian completed her first flight training operations. The...
Defence debate is not war-mongering
By Jennifer Parker*
It is not warmongering to discuss how a changing world may affect Australia’s way of life, just as it did during World...
Sea trials for huge new Chinese ship
China has begun sea trials for its first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, Sichuan (Hull 51), after the vessel departed Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard on...
US’s 20th narco boat hit
U.S. forces struck a suspected narco boat in the Caribbean Sea earlier this week, killing four people, US Naval Institute News reports.
The strike,...