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...
BAE wins Anzac class gun contract
BAE Systems was awarded a contract by the Commonwealth of Australia to upgrade existing Mk 45 Mod 2 naval gun systems on Anzac class...
UK Marines boss bemoans ships’ axing
A former head of the Royal Marines has warned the Government's rumoured plans to retire HMS Albion and her sister ship HMS Bulwark would...
Ukraine: Russia’s shrinking navy
Most of the world’s leading navies are getting bigger—a lot bigger—by one key metric: tonnage, Forbes reports.
But not the Russian navy. It’s struggling to...
75 combat-ready vessels is US aim
The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet, still short of its readiness goal of 75 combat-credible surface ships at any given time, is pursuing new ways...
Constellation-class delay
The first Constellation-class guided-missile frigate will deliver at least a year late due in large part to workforce shortfalls at the Wisconsin yard where...
US destroyer roll-out plan
The Navy is looking for a three-year overlap between the start of construction on its next-generation guided-missile destroyer DDG(X) and its current crop of...
New US naval reactors director
The US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, a joint Department of Navy and Department of Energy organisation responsible for all aspects of the US Navy’s...
Russia launches new frigate
The frigate Admiral Golovko has been handed over to the Russian Navy. It is the most modern surface ship in the Russian Navy, has...
How to stop acoustic aggression
Soviet warships regularly sparred with Western navies during the Cold War years, conducting close-in ship-to-ship manoeuvres and pointing lasers against their foreign opponents at...