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...
UK Sea Kings headed to Ukraine
The British Ministry of Defence has announced it will send helicopters to Ukraine for the first time since the war began, military.com reports.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said it will...
Royal Navy warships to receive Harpoon replacement from 2023
The Royal Navy will replace the venerable Harpoon anti-ship missile with the Norwegian Naval Strike Missile. The new missile has a range of more...
US Navy analysis confirms Iranian link to drone attack
A US Navy lab in Bahrain has confirmed Iran’s connection to a Nov. 15 aerial drone attack on the Israeli-owned and Liberian-flagged tanker transiting...
Boeing improves torpedo launching
A Boeing-made capability enables Poseidon to launch torpedoes from higher altitudes and longer distances.
The all-weather HAAWC enables the Boeing P-8A Poseidon to deploy MK...
Idea for RN to send ‘bubbles’ to Pacific
The Royal Navy should “export” anti-access/anti-denial (A2/AD) “bubbles” to regional partners in the Indo-Pacific so it can operate effectively there, while maintaining commitments in...
Ukraine: the naval war drones on
By Alessio Patalano*
This month (Nov 2022) the naval war in Ukraine came back to international attention. In a theatre that first defined by the...