‘Steering casualty’ behind USS McCain collision
Investigators probing the deadly collision between the guided-missile destroyer USS JOHN S. McCAIN and an oil tanker last month believe the primary cause was...
Largest Australian navy ship arrives in Jakarta
Australia's largest and newest ship has pulled into Indonesia's capital as part of a tour to showcase what the navy can do for the...
Australia’s larger role in Pacific
By Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells*
Australia is stepping up its engagement with the Pacific through a focus on reinvigorated economic partnerships, enhanced security and stronger diplomatic...
The Royal Navy and freedom of navigation ops
By Pete Barker*
In July, two major announcements were made renewing the Royal Navy’s commitment to the principle of freedom of navigation in the coming...
World naval developments Sep 2017
By Norman Friedman*
A SWISS group in Zurich, funded partly by DARPA, has developed a new kind of optical sensor, more akin to a...
Minister rejects report that sub project is high risk
Full report can be downloaded from here
Defence Minister Marine Payne has rejected a report saying that Australia’s future submarine (FSM) project is "extravagantly expensive,...
A naval blockade best option to cut off N Korea
By James Stavridis
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is fixated on obtaining a serious nuclear arsenal, and continues to thumb his nose at...
HMAS Hobart commissioned
With a zealous crowd and great fanfare, the guided missile destroyer HMAS Hobart was commissioned in to the Royal Australian Navy fleet in a...
SE Asia still looking to US: ex-Aussie Defence chief
Underscoring the importance of President Donald Trump’s upcoming Pacific visit, “the countries of East Asia want the United States actively engaged” as Beijing increasingly...
New US naval weapons to change the game with China
The US Navy, the world’s dominant naval force, has made substantial progress in developing advanced weapons such as solid state lasers (SSLs), electromagnetic railguns...