Repaired USS Fitzgerald heads to new home
Nearly three years to the day after the warship Fitzgerald collided with a merchant vessel off Japan, drowning seven U.S. sailors, the guided-missile destroyer...
Japan’s U-turn on Aegis combat system
By Ben Schreer*
Without informing its US ally, Japan this week abruptly put on hold the planned deployment of two Aegis Ashore systems that were intended...
Watershed moment in naval future
By Tim Barrett and Arthur H. ‘Trip’ Barber III
Australia is at a watershed moment in naval capability with the fleet’s regeneration over the next...
Aegis combat system to be upgraded
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems has secured a US$37.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to a previously awarded contract for additional Aegis combat system support for...
Trump orders Arctic ice-breaker fleet
U.S. President Trump ordered a review of the country’s requirements for icebreaking capabilities in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, with the goal of getting...
USS Nimitz heads to sea after quarantine
The aircraft carrier Nimitz and portions of its strike group left San Diego Monday for a deployment, the Navy Times reports.
Navy officials declined to say where...
Malacca Strait mine force needed
By Greg Mapson*
For the best part of 50 years, NATO has maintained a standing force of mine countermeasure vessels at the ready to respond...
OPV fleet a force multiplier
By Marcus Hellyer*
Australia can acquire extra maritime capability quickly and affordably while promoting local industry and the government’s continuous naval shipbuilding plan.
My new ASPI...
N-subs and strategic stability in Indo-Pacific
By Stephan Frühling*
No other weapon system embodies the menacing, but also out-of-sight, presence of nuclear weapons better than the stealthy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines...
The South Pacific strategic alliance
By Richard Kouyoumdjian Inglis*
Recently the Chilean Navy took control of the former HMAS “Melbourne” and HMAS “Newcastle” and renamed them “Capitán Prat” and “Almirante...