First US nuclear submarine maintenance in Australia
In a historic first, RAN personnel will work alongside with their US counterparts to conduct maintenance on USS Hawaii (SSN 776) in Australia as...
Exercise Pacific Dragon 24 held off Hawaii
Allied navies joined the US Navy and the US Missile Defense Agency to conduct the Pacific Dragon 2024(PD24) ballistic missile defence exercise from 29...
Crew shortage hits support ships
Military Sealift Command has drafted a plan to remove the crews from 17 Navy support ships due to a lack of qualified mariners to...
$850m for Australia to make strike missiles
Australia will contribute $850 million in partnership with Kongsberg Defence Australia to manufacture and service missiles at Williamtown near Newcastle. The project involves the...
Improving interoperability
By Jennifer Parker*
The rise of minilaterals, quadrilaterals, and other groupings in the Indo-Pacific have become increasingly important to the regional security architecture. However, a...
Red Sea experience is changing warfare education
During his warship’s recent deployment to the Middle East, a guided-missile destroyer commander fired off some five terabytes of data about his crew’s operations...
New sophisticated Chinese boat
A Chinese shipyard in Wuhan has launched a submarine which is likely to be the country's most advanced non-nuclear type. The new boat is...
The search for laser defences
The quest for laser shoot-down weapons is gaining urgency as enemy drones and missiles get better, cheaper, and more widely used, Defense One reports.
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USAF tests anti-ship bomb
The Air Force in July tested a new ship-killing guided bomb to demonstrate the service’s growing ability to sink enemy vessels.
A B-2 Spirit bomber...
New missile hits old Russian ship
One of the world’s oldest active-duty naval ships has been damaged by a modern guided missile. The ship is the Russian Navy’s Kommuna, an...