Undersea drone program dead in the water
The US Navy’s Snakehead program is looking dead in the water — again. Congressional appropriators in the fiscal 2023 defense spending bill backed the service’s...
Plug and play idea for carrier strike group
U.S. Fleet Forces is rethinking how to deploy carrier strike groups by changing how it would train and maintain its guided-missile destroyers, commander Adm....
Palau: US building over-horizon radar
On December 28, the Department of Defense announced the award of an $118 million contract to build a special kind of radar installation in...
Russians want carrier back
When the erstwhile Soviet Union disintegrated, Ukraine sold the Kuznetsov-class cruiser carrier to China. More than two decades later, a Russian political party has...
Of maritime security and a rules-based order
Maritime scholars and practitioners often wrestle with the question of what a “desirable” architecture for maritime security should be, and how must it be...
US Navy buys two Valkyrie drones
The US Navy is buying two stealth unmanned aerial systems – originally developed for the Air Force – that could operate with a manned...
Iran’s new drone aircraft carrier
In a dry dock near the entrance to the Persian Gulf, Iran’s sectarian naval force is converting a former merchant container ship into a...
Newest French N-sub enters active duty
The French MoD announced that the French Navy's Suffren nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) and its blue crew completed their first operational deployment with the...
US warship in Taiwan Strait
A US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday, the US Navy said, in a move likely to anger Beijing.
The guided-missile destroyer USS...
Australia on track to buy N-subs from US: PM
Australia is on track to announce plans to buy new nuclear-powered submarines from the US and UK, despite scepticism in Washington, the Albanese government...