Some weird gems in the Strategic Update
By Victor Abramowicz*
The recent release of the Defence Strategic Update and Force Structure Plan provided an outline of the government’s defence policy and capability...
HMAS Ballarat trials unmanned vehicle
Two of Navy’s newest cutting-edge capabilities have combined, with the Anzac Class Frigate HMAS Ballarat embarking an S-100 Camcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for flight...
Strategic Update: mines are back
By Richard Dunley*
Mines are back. Mine warfare has long been something of a Cinderella within western navies. However, the announcement in the Strategic Update...
Unexploded bombs pose problem on Guam
Roughly 11,000 bombs and other munitions were dropped on Guam in World War II, but never detonated, the Navy Times reports.
Decades later, the U.S....
Japan’s U-turn on Aegis combat system
By Ben Schreer*
Without informing its US ally, Japan this week abruptly put on hold the planned deployment of two Aegis Ashore systems that were intended...
Aegis combat system to be upgraded
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems has secured a US$37.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to a previously awarded contract for additional Aegis combat system support for...
Malacca Strait mine force needed
By Greg Mapson*
For the best part of 50 years, NATO has maintained a standing force of mine countermeasure vessels at the ready to respond...
A new risk model for mine counter operations
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By Captain Scott Craig, Royal Australian Navy*
Marine warfare is often the “wicked problem”...
Autonomous systems: warship, torpedo or naval mine?
Naval industries are edging closer to the development of unmanned maritime platforms with lethal autonomous capability—lethal autonomous maritime systems (LAMS). The emergence of LAMS...
Japan’s new hypervelocity missile
It travels toward its target faster than five times the speed of sound, making course corrections nearly impossible to track, and carries...