HMAS Childers helps stricken vessel
Whilst alongside Norship Dockyard in Cairns, HMAS Childers rendered assistance to a civilian vessel named Experience which suffered an engine failure, the Royal Australian...
US fleet size not first priority
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday has long insisted he must first prioritize the readiness of today’s fleet, followed by increasing its lethality...
RIMPAC ‘not aimed at China’
The sprawling Rim of the Pacific 2022 exercise is not designed to counter or threaten China, according to the head of the U.S. Pacific...
Ukraine restores Danube ports
Ukraine is restoring and expanding some of its long-decommissioned river ports on the Danube to facilitate the exportation of grain due to Russia’s Black...
Royal Navy seizes Iranian weapons
In early 2022, whilst on routine maritime security operations, Royal Navy ship HMS Montrose seized Iranian weapons from speedboats being operated by smugglers in...
One ocean connects all
By BA Hamzah*
SYNOPSIS
War in the Black Sea or the Taiwan Strait will imperil humanity’s health and survival because all seas and oceans are interconnected,...
France can help PM fix AUKUS
Recently-elected Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces a dilemma on nuclear submarines. Having received only a single day’s notice, and wanting to avoid looking...
Russian Navy gets nuclear torpedo
A Russian Navy submarine armed with a strategic nuclear torpedo the size of a school bus was delivered to the Kremlin this week, according...
Bonhomme Richard fiasco
The initial response to the July 2020 fire that destroyed the multibillion-dollar amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard was uncoordinated and hampered by confusion as...
12 bodies found after vessel snapped in two
Chinese search and rescue officials pulled 12 bodies on Monday from waters southwest of Hong Kong after an engineering vessel snapped in two as...