$76.6bn for 14 nuclear submarines
The U.S. Navy announced that it is awarding contracts for another round of ballistic missile and fast-attack submarines.
The Defense Department is granting a collective...
HMAS Perth sails for 2026 Regional Presence Deployment
On 24 July it was announced that the Anzac class frigate HMAS Perth has departed Fleet Base West in Western Australia to commence the...
China Coast Guard’s militarisation
Footage has confirmed the service entry of Z-20F maritime helicopter in the China Coast Guard, which represents a major landmark the modernisation of the...
Taiwan gets coast guard cutter
Taipei received its latest cutter this week from a $1.3 billion program initiated almost a decade ago to expand Taiwan’s white hull fleet to...
ANZAC commanders talk about RIMPAC
The commanding officers of the three ships in the Anzac Task Group sailing to Hawaii for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) sat down...
Uncrewed vessels should surveil Indonesian waters
By Chong De Xian and Sandy Juda Pratama*
In February, an Indonesian naval officer publicly acknowledged what had long been understood in the service: foreign...
Uncrewed and untested. Some wrong lessons
By Jennifer Parker*
When the UK launched its Defence Investment Plan on 30 June, the government promised a “generational transformation” of the military that would...
Singapore’s second multi-role combat vessel launched
On 23 July the Republic of Singapore Navy’s second Multi-Role Combat Vessel (MRCV) was launched at the ST Engineering’s Benoi Shipyard.
The Coordinating Minister for...
HMAS Choules joins Exercise Pacific Partnership 26
On 21 July it was announced that the amphibious ship HMAS Choules has arrived in Indonesia for Exercise Pacific Partnership 26, a United States-led...
China conducts first satellite sea-launch
On 23 July the People’s Liberation Army announced that it had launched, on the previous day, nine satellites on one Gravity-1 rocket from sea....