It’s time to renew Australia’s north as a source of strategic advantage
By Michael Shoebridge*
Australian policymakers’ attitude to the role of northern Australia in the nation’s defence mimics a cicada’s life cycle. For a brief period,...
The defence of undersea infrastructure
By Bill Glenney*
Introduction
Given recent activities by the PLA(N) and the Russian Navy, the matters of seabed warfare and the defense of undersea infrastructure have...
US Navy’s sub hunter autonomously navigates from San Diego to Pearl Harbor and back
US Navy file photo of the Sea Hunter
The US Navy’s Sea Hunter autonomous trimaran became the first ship to successfully autonomously navigate from San Diego...
HMAS Adelaide – Boarding Party, Persian Gulf 2004
The following story about a boarding party from HMAS Adelaide in the Gulf in 2004 was first published in the June 2007 edition of...
Dark harvest of Chinese black ships
By Zhang Hongzhou
A US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies report (Illuminating the South China Sea’s Dark Fishing Fleets) sheds new light on the size and...
Australia’s new Pacific Czar
By James Batley
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has now established an Office of the Pacific, a measure foreshadowed in 2018 as part...
Why Turkish F-35s are threat to US and NATO
By Duncan Kellogg
Imagine, for a moment, a hypothetical country rapidly spiraling towards autocracy, illegally arresting American citizens, imprisoning journalists, and attacking American-supported forces. Now...
Boardings highlight RAN patrol capabilities
Lt Tobias Phelps of the RAN with members of the Royal Malaysian Navy boarding party during a joint boarding exercise on HMAS Success during...
Greece shows interest in buying RAN FFGs
By Ewen Levick
Athens has sent an expression of interest to Defence to buy the RAN’s two remaining Adelaide-class FFG frigates, HMA Ships Melbourne and Newcastle, Australian Defence Magazine reports.
Greek Minister...
HMAS Melbourne captain dies aged 98
Obituary: Captain John Philip Stevenson AM RAN Ret’d
24 August 1921 – 29 January 2019
(Captain John Stevenson was captain of HMAS Melbourne at the time...