CN Tim Barrett hands over the weight
Vice Admiral Tim Barrett has formally ended his term as Chief of Navy, following a handover ceremony at Blamey Square in Canberra. VADM Barrett...
$35b on frigates: BAE wins – has Australia won too?
By Michael Shoebridge
So, the nine new Hunter-class anti-submarine warfare frigates will be built by BAE Systems in Osborne, South Australia, with ASC Shipbuilding acting...
Hunting for the reason – the new frigates
By Mike Scrafton*
The 2016 Defence White Paper stated that the nine new future frigates will be ‘optimised for anti-submarine warfare’. According to the Turnbull...
China squandered trust, defence chief says
Out-going Defence chief Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin says Beijing’s broken promise not to militarise the South China Sea means it has squandered the...
Mai Tai diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
By Peter Layton*
It’s Mai Tai time again for many of the world’s navies and some air forces. The month-long, biennial Rim of the Pacific...
Hambantota: Sri Lanka’s Chinese port
By Aarti Betigeri*
In early 2011, I was in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka, looking for the new port. After hours of driving, from the southern...
Modular mine counter-measures
By Captain Hans Lynch and Dr. Sam Taylor*
Introduction
“The mine issues no official communique.” – Adm. William V. Pratt
Mines are one of the most simple...
World naval developments June 2018
By Norman Friedman*
At the end of May the U.S. Navy announced that it had chosen the Raytheon-Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile to arm the...
Moscow’s other navy
By Victor Abramowicz
Russia’s Navy is a highly visible and generally well-understood instrument of Moscow’s military power that has been on a slow process of...
“Unsinkable” island no substitute for aircraft carriers
By Abhijit Singh*
In a recent article (India’s interest in unsinkable aircraft carriers), David Brewster poses an interesting question: is there a cheaper and less...