From the ANI Archives: Pavlova and Vindaloo
The relationship between the two largest Commonwealth navies in the Indian Ocean region has been one of unrealised potential. The then Captain Jonathan Mead...
The Wargame reveals defence weaknesses
By Tom Sharpe
Last week, Sky aired its new series The Wargame, a TV adaptation of last year’s award-winning podcast of the same name. In...
UK’s Vanguard-class subs over-stretched
Four boats is the minimum the Royal Navy’s nuclear deterrence mission allows: one on patrol, one working up or returning, one in short maintenance,...
What naval power cannot buy
By Hervé Auffret*
Ships can deter a competitor, compel a rival, and escort a convoy. What they cannot do is build the institutions, relationships, information...
Putin’s yacht moved to the Pacific
Russian President Vladimir Putin's luxury yacht, Kosatka, has been transferred to the Pacific via the Northern Sea Route, accompanied by the notorious salvage ship...
UK tests anti-sub technology
A British maritime technology company is testing a distributed anti-submarine surveillance network made up of six small robotic sailboats at the multinational REPMUS26 exercise...
Taiwan boosts missile capability
Taiwan's coast guard demonstrated its ability to use its coastal patrol vessels to launch locally-built antiship missiles, adding additional heft to its defensive capabilities,...
Eight US sailors attempt suicide
Eight sailors who were part of the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group attempted to take their lives during its long deployment in support of...
From the ANI Archives: Captain Harry Howden
In Headmark 138, published in December 2010, Dr Tom Lewis provides an illuminating profile of one the RAN’s most colourful and capable cruiser captains...
S. Korea maps N-subs role
As South Korea moves ahead with plans to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, the debate is shifting from whether the country needs them to where and...