Pakistan’s naval modernisation
Even as Pakistan’s currency plunges and the country pursues a bailout package to avoid default, the country’s naval officials say its maritime modernization programs...
Technology drive Indo-Pacific arms race
Technology has been a key driver in the ongoing arms race in the Indo-Pacific, as regional powers seek to leverage technology to build up...
Rearming the RAN
By David Shackleton*
Much has been written on the importance of guided weapons and ensuring conflicts aren’t lost through a shortage of ammunition. Deputy Prime...
Strategic Review: message from chiefs
Message from the Secretary of the Department of Defence and the Chief of the Defence Force:
Colleagues,
This afternoon the report of the Defence Strategic Review...
RNZN delivers aid to flooded east coast
On 17 February the specialist dive and hydrographic vessel HMNZS Manawanui, with a crew of 50 plus 28 extra personnel, commenced delivery of 5,000...
Pakistan holds major maritime conference and exercise
The Pakistan International Maritime Expo & Conference (PIMEC), an initiative of the Pakistan Navy, and the Ministry of Maritime Affairs was held on 10-12...
Canada and AUKUS
Dr Jeffrey F Collins and Mr Matthew Bondy*
This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2022, Issue 1, in June 2022.
Introduction
In a country...
Indon-Viet accord over maritime boundary
A recent agreement between Indonesia and Vietnam over maritime boundaries in the South China Sea will likely smooth over the occasionally tense relationship between...
Massacre of naval personnel in the Solomons, 1880
By Clive Williams*
Solomon Islands (formerly the British Solomon Islands Protectorate) was in the news again in 2022 because of its closer association with China,...
Australian company supplying metal printing to US Navy
Australian company AML3D is supplying the US Department of Defence (US DoD) its industrial 3D metal printing technology to help scale up parts supply...