Australia to spend $1bn on sea mines
Australia will make its first major investment in sea mines since the Vietnam War, spending up to $1 billion on high-tech underwater weapons to...
New British n-sub to have vertical launch system
The future British attack submarine, the SSNR, will feature a vertical launch system (VLS). This is a first for the Royal Navy and will...
Sonar system to protect merchant vessels
A sonar system being installed on new U.S. Navy Constellation-class frigates could also protect merchant ships during a conflict and give them the ability...
The quest to be interchangeable
The U.S. Navy and its closest allies and partners continue their quest to become interchangeable — a step up from previous calls to be...
Hypersonic weapons: report to Congress
A report to members and committees of the US Congress has outlined options for hypersonic weapons.
The report summary follows:
The United States has actively pursued...
Undersea drone program dead in the water
The US Navy’s Snakehead program is looking dead in the water — again. Congressional appropriators in the fiscal 2023 defense spending bill backed the service’s...
Palau: US building over-horizon radar
On December 28, the Department of Defense announced the award of an $118 million contract to build a special kind of radar installation in...
US Navy buys two Valkyrie drones
The US Navy is buying two stealth unmanned aerial systems – originally developed for the Air Force – that could operate with a manned...
Extraordinary role of dolphins and sea lions
By Gidget Fuentes*
Since 1959, the US Navy has trained a small force of bottlenose dolphins and sea lions to recover lost equipment, intercept intruders...
Ghost Shark: unmanned and under water
Anduril Industries and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) announced that the Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (XLUUV) will be named "Ghost Shark".
The company previously...