USN and RN commit to AI and energy weapons
The U.S. Navy’s acquisition chief announced the establishment of the London Tech Bridge—the U.S. Navy’s first such innovation centre outside the United States, ukdj...
Business as usual in a time of upheaval
By Marcus Hellyer
The big defence news in Australia this year was in the 2020 defence strategic updatereleased on 1 July. The update and its accompanying...
The Quad sharpens its edges
By Brahma Chellaney*
The Quad, a loose strategic coalition of the Indo-Pacific region’s four leading democracies, is rapidly solidifying this year in response to China’s...
Virtual tour of the Garden Island tunnels
Zoom Presentation: Tuesday 20 th October 2020
This presentation by the Naval Historical Society will address the construction and circumstances which led to the construction...
Naval Group’s first local manufacturing package
Naval Group has officially launched its first ‘Local Manufacturing Package’ expression of interest (EOI) to Australian industry – part of a package expected to...
Exmouth base needed to plug naval gap
By John Coyne*
To make sure that northern Australia is ready to support a range of defence contingencies, the region must have socially and economically...
A third aircraft carrier for India?
By Air Marshal M Matheswaran
The Indian military is undergoing what may be its most significant reorganisation since India’s independence, with considerable implications for its future...
The rise of the US Navy
On a warm August day in 1785, at the Merchants' Coffee House in Philadelphia, an 8-year-old Continental Navy 32-gun frigate named Alliance was auctioned...
China boosts N-subs shipyard capacity
As China pushes to become a blue-water power, nuclear-powered submarines are critically important to Beijing’s plan. Historically the Chinese Navy’s (PLAN) nuclear-powered submarine fleet...
Leadership in the aftermath of USS Cole attack
Not all Rear Adm. Derek Trinque's sailors know where he was 20 years ago, but the event and its aftermath had a profound effect...