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 a “Sea...
Looming threat of sea mines
By Greg Mapson
In mid-2018, the Chinese navy conducted one of the largest mine warfare exercises in living memory, involving some 60 minelayers and minesweepers, aircraft and...
Covid-19 RN choppers as air ambulances
Royal Navy helicopters are to be used as air ambulances for the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic, Forces Net reports.
Three Merlin Mk2 helicopters from RNAS Culdrose...