US Congressional report on US Navy’s destroyers
The US Congressional Research Service has released a report on the US Navy’s two destroyer programs. The Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyer program is...
Exercise Malabar 2023
For the first time Australia is hosting Quad partners India, Japan and the United States for Exercise Malabar. Originally a bilateral exercise between the...
Defence Strategic Review – a maritime perspective
By John Mortimer*
The Defence Strategic Review (DSR) has generated a mixed reaction amongst commentators, but appears to have a degree of support within the...
Clamp down on Defence contracting
The Department of Defence has imposed at short notice a moratorium on contracting of recently separated Defence personnel by defence industry, Australian Defence Magazine...
Talisman Sabre exercise update
USS America (LHA-6) played a key role in the amphibious component of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2023, a massive multilateral training iteration that took place...
Russia’s live-fire Baltic exercise
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it began begun live-fire naval exercises in the Baltic Se a on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions with nearby European...
Netherland’s diesel submarine move
The Netherlands Ministry of Defense (MoD) says it has received three offers from European shipbuilders for the Replacement Netherlands Submarine Capability Program (RNSCP) for...
BAE to get key AUKUS N-sub role
Plans have surfaced from a recent ‘Departmental Minute dated 28 June 2023‘ indicating the UK Ministry of Defence’s intent to contract BAE Systems for...
Indian Navy visits Papua New Guinea
Two Indian warships arrived at Port Moresby on 2 Aug 2023 as part of a goodwill visit. The ships were the destroyer INS Kolkata...
Indonesian Navy conducts Joint Exercise
On 31 July 2023 as part of Joint Exercise Latgab 23, warships of the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) conducted successful surface-to-surface missile firings at the...