Australian industry key to fleet enhancement
The Government’s blueprint for the Royal Australian Navy’s enhanced lethality surface combatant fleet will deliver direct investment to grow a capable, resilient and competitive...
Albion vital to UK standing
A former Commander of the Falklands Task Group and the former Captain of HMS Fearless have urged the Government not to scrap the Albion...
Hunter-class avoids the axe
Australia's troubled Hunter-class frigate program has avoided being axed following a sweeping review of the navy's combat surface fleet, with at least six and...
Fixing an under-gunned Navy
By James Garlick*
The navy is under-gunned for the strategic circumstances Australia faces. For years, commentators have criticised its existing and planned platforms for possessing...
Is the Royal Navy in crisis?
A series of media reports in the first week of this year have brought the Navy’s personnel, funding and support problems into sharp focus....
Update: Virginia-class and AUKUS plan
On 13 February the US Congressional Research Service provided its latest update to Congress on Virginia-Class Submarine Program and AUKUS Submarine Proposal. The introduction...
ADV Reliant delivers water to Micronesia
Australian Defence Vessel Reliant delivered 116,000 litres of fresh water to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. Usually one of the wettest places...
Norway’s game-changing new sub
Norway is investing in new submarines that will be ‘game changers’ for the Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) and for Norway’s wider defence and security...
Should hospital ships be armed?
In 1949, the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick, and Shipwrecked Members of the Armed Forces set out...
Ukraine sinks Russian ship
A big Russian amphibious ship, the Caesar Kunikov, has been sunk off the coast of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine's armed forces, the BBC...