No substitute for big ships
By Jennifer Parker*
Attack missile boats are no substitutes for the Royal Australian Navy’s major warships, contrary to the contention of a 4 February 2025...
Weapons for merchant ship platforms
By Colonel T. X. Hammes and Captain R. Robinson Harris*
In the past half decade, innovators have heeded calls to increase the Navy’s ship...
Surprise new Chinese submarine
China's incredible naval expansion and modernization continues. The latest surprise is yet another new and unexplained submarine. The boat, whose designation is unknown, has...
AUKUS: Eastern states must step up
By Edward Cavanough and Peter Dean*
The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine partnership has now survived the bumpy inauguration of Donald Trump as US president. It has...
US Navy’s spectacular laser test
The US Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, system on one of its warships in fiscal...
Four nations conduct multilateral maritime cooperative activity
The combined defence and armed forces of Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States, demonstrated “a collective commitment to strengthen regional and international...
ANI at 50: Ship Handling Corner
From the Davy Jones’s Locker
In the second of the series of reaching into Davy Jones’s Locker and the early editions of the Journal of...
Norway arrests Russian-crewed Norway-flagged vessel
Police in Tromsø, Norway, report that the Norwegian Coast Guard has detained the Silver Dania on suspicion of sabotage after a request from Latvian...
China’s exploitative fishing fleet
Chinese fishing research vessels are scouting the Arabian Sea. The two research vessels are expected to glean information that will, in the future, support...
UK’s two new unscrewed marine systems
The Ministry of Defence is putting two newly developed uncrewed maritime systems—Snapper and Wasp—through final testing, UK Defence Journal reports.
During a Written Question session...