Ukraine deploys harpoon missiles
The Ukraine has received from Denmark an undisclosed number of truck mounted coastal defence variants of the Harpoon Block II missile to augment their...
ADF move on autonomous weapons
The Australian Defence Force has partnered with global tech company Anduril to design and develop extra-large autonomous undersea vehicles (XLAUVs).
Under the co-funded arrangement, Defence scientists, Navy...
Russia fires missile at Lviv from sub
Russia fired long-range missiles at Lviv on Sunday, hitting Ukraine’s international military training center in strikes that were likely fired from one or more...
US Navy opposed to ship-launched N-weapons
The U.S. Navy remains opposed to buying ship-launched nuclear weapons, even though some in the Pentagon have pushed back, Defense News reports.
Chief of Naval...
New US unmanned Navy division
The Pacific Fleet has stood up Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One to expedite the integration of unmanned surface vessels, the Navy Times reports.
The unit...
Drone program quietly axed
The Morrison Government has quietly cancelled Defence’s $1.3bn project to acquire up to 12 armed drones in order to direct funding towards a $10bn...
RAN to get upgrade for Sparrow missiles
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed the purchase of Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2 capability for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Defence Magazine...
Way to sink China’s weaponised merchant ships
This month, gCaptain reported the U.S. Air Force demonstrated a lethal new weapon that could provide a low-cost and more widely-available alternative to sinking...
Primer on hypersonic weapons
Probably sparked by the use of hypersonic missiles in the Russian-Ukraine War the US Congressional Research Service has released a primer on these weapons. It...
Fossil fuel as warfare’s weak link
By Lt. Col. Theodore “Doc” Shanks and Alexander Gard-Murray*
While the world witnesses Russia’s senseless and shockingly muddled invasion of Ukraine, military logisticians around the globe are drawing a collective...