AI to track Chinese submarines
Australia will join the US and UK to test a new way of tracking Chinese submarines using artificial intelligence, with the news coming a...
HMS Spey visits India
Royal Navy warship HMS Spey has followed in the footsteps of sister vessel HMS Tamar and made her inaugural visit to India, Forces Net...
What the US Navy really needs
By Brad Martin*
The US Navy is a worldwide force that carries out a variety of different missions. It is in some ways a victim...
RAN ship exercises with Philippines in SCS
An Australian warship caught up in a dangerous sonar incident with the Chinese military has begun joint naval patrols with the Philippines in an...
Hunter class passes design stage
BAE Systems’ Hunter Class Frigate Program has successfully completed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The review, which started in July, is a technical assessment...
Govt defends naval budgeting
Three days before the defense ministers of AUKUS are gathering in California, the Australian minister for defense industry, Pat Conroy, offered a full-throated defense...
Canadian Navy chief sounds alarm
The head of the Royal Canadian Navy issued a remarkably blunt and public assessment of his own fleet, citing numerous shipbuilding and recruiting issues...
Gulf of Aden tanker seizure foiled
On 26 November a combined naval effort between multiple nations thwarted an attempted seizure of an oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden. The...
Kiwi Sea Ceptor Missile Firings
Last week (Dec 2023) the frigate HMNZS Te Mana conducted two Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missile firings in the East Australia Exercise Area, which completed...
A century of nuclear dismantling
A senior US Navy official has confirmed the existence of a new office focused on nuclear carrier inactivation and dismantlement, as first reported by...