China’s detection-from-space system
A new study traces how satellites launched for science, mapping and broadband are being wired into one network that can find, identify and track...
Who will repair sabotaged cables?
In June 2023, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, raised the prospect via the messaging app Telegram of ‘destroying our enemies’ ocean-floor...
AI and space fill maritime surveillance gap
By Vincent Kyle Parada and Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano*
Maritime surveillance has become Southeast Asia’s critical capability gap. Artificial intelligence combined with orbital surveillance technologies...
Reels and Reflections: 40 Years in the RAN
By CAPT Paul D Pelczar, OAM RAN*
By the year of my enlistment, HMAS Melbourne — the flat top — had already been decommissioned, taking...
Importance of RN hydrographic service
Russian activity in the High North demonstrates why data matters. Sub-threshold ‘grey zone’ actions extend to matters as seemingly innocent as fishing and research,...
Huge journey for uncrewed submarine
The U.S. Navy completed a 1,000 nautical mile transit with the service’s Orca XLUUV uncrewed submarine in July, a first for the service, Naval...
RN helicopters using long-range drones
The RN has successfully demonstrated a secure network allowing helicopters, drones and ground forces to operate together across more than 200 miles, marking another...
US uncrewed vessel’s Chinese encounter
During a long-endurance trek across the Pacific, a small uncrewed surface vessel (USV) owned by a California company had an encounter with a Chinese...
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....
US uses uncrewed vessels in Iran attack
Three Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessels (USV) attacked a laid up Iranian midget submarine in a first of its kind operation by American forces...