Huge fleet heads out from UK
Final preparations have been made as HMS Queen Elizabeth gets ready to sail on her 26,000 nautical mile maiden deployment on May 1, Forces Net reports.
The £3.2bn aircraft carrier...
Taiwan’s new coast guard flagship
Taiwan commissioned into service a new coast guard flagship on Thursday to help counter China’s “grey zone” war tactics against the island, Reuters reports.
Taiwan’s...
RN’s South Atlantic environmental mission
HMS Forth has taken bomb disposal specialists to South Georgia as part of a mission to protect the island's wildlife, Forces Net reports.
The patrol...
53 women marines’ historic graduation
Dozens of new female Marines completed the grueling final exercise required of recruits in boot camp this week, setting them up to become the...
Submarine loss: more co-operation needed
Time tragically ran out for the crew of Indonesia’s submarine KRI Nanggala-402. When the Indonesian Navy lost contact with the boat conducting a torpedo...
Baltic’s greater strategic importance
By Sebastian Bruns and Julian Pawlak*
“The Baltic Sea has grown to a never-seen strategic significance in the past years.” This is how Vice Admiral...
Submarine loss: ‘No one can fight nature”
With incredible candour, Indonesian navy first petty officer Setyo Wawan opened up on national television about the toll his job placed on his family.
“The...
Suicides: royal commission will take too long
The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide is a welcome announcement, and one that the defence community has been seeking for a very...
How my father earned the Arctic Star
By Hamish McDonald*
It began when my brother Andrew noticed the British Ministry of Defence had belatedly recognised in 2012 that the wartime arctic convoys...
China’s actions not Australian words are the problem
By Michael Shoebridge*
There’s a greater likelihood of major conflict in the Indo-Pacific region now than at any time since the end of the Vietnam...