RN has no supply ships
For the first time ever in the modern era, the Royal Navy has no active supply ships and currently depends entirely on allies for...
Tomahawk deal approved
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has approved the potential Foreign Military Sale of ‘General Tomahawk Weapons System Support Services Uplift and related...
RAN officers complete next nuclear step
The first cadre of Royal Australian Navy officers to go through the U.S. Navy’s nuclear power pipeline hit another milestone last week when they...
Snap review of US naval shipbuilding
On 11 January it was announced that the Secretary of the US Navy, Carlos Del Toro, has directed newly-confirmed Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
Successful test for new US Navy radar
The U.S. Navy’s newest shipboard radar has spotted targets older radars cannot during two recent tests, according to the Program Executive Officer for Integrated...
Expanded Nordic response exercise
The bi-annual winter wargame previously known as Cold Response has changed its name to Nordic Response, the Barents Observer reports. While Norway used to be...
Four uncrewed ships return from tests
The U.S. Navy completed its first deployment of four unmanned ships, which spent five months in the Pacific testing concepts for how to integrate...
Royal Fleet Auxilliary under threat
One of the most important pieces of news in the UK this week was the announcement that a major Model Railway exhibition that had...
No Minister, Taipans are extremely safe
By Kym Bergmann*
At a press conference on 16 January, Acting Defence Minister Pat Conroy hinted that Australia’s fleet of Taipan helicopters were not returned...
Iranian Navy captures oil tanker
Iran’s navy captured an oil tanker Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that only months earlier had seen its cargo of Iranian oil seized...