International Red Sea defence force announced
Several nations have announced their contributions to Operation Prosperity Guardian, a new multinational security initiative in the Middle East to help protect merchant ships...
USS Carney takes out drone swarm
The men and women of the Navy destroyer Carney continued to show and prove in the Red Sea on 16 December when they shot...
Red Sea: Australia misses the boat
By Malcolm Davis*
The 2023 defence strategic review noted that Australia’s economy had become more interconnected with the Indo-Pacific and the world, and that brought...
AUKUS: what we pay, what we get
For Australia, the reality is, AUKUS is an illusion. To date, our sole contribution to the agreement has been to provide billions of dollars...
Israeli warship goes to Red Sea
One of Israel’s new Sa’ar 6 corvettes has been deployed to the Red Sea, where it’s anchored off the Israeli port of Eilat, the...
Russia’s alarming plans for Black Sea base
In early November, 50 Georgian opposition MPs addressed Nato and EU member states calling for a unified stance against Russia's plan to establish a...
Drones from Yemen attack French frigate
A French guided-missile frigate came under attack from two lethal drones launched from Yemen, officials in Paris said on 11 December 2023.
On 9 December,...
US, Iran post Arabian Gulf images
Iran and the US Navy are engaged in a game of cat and mouse in the Arabian Gulf, with Iran posting drone footage of...
France: moves to heal AUKUS rift
Australian navy ships are set to gain greater access to French military bases in the Pacific under a plan to repair French-Australian relations after...
How to stop acoustic aggression
Soviet warships regularly sparred with Western navies during the Cold War years, conducting close-in ship-to-ship manoeuvres and pointing lasers against their foreign opponents at...