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Austal expects strong opportunities in future

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Shipbuilder Austal is pursuing its strongest-ever pipeline of potential work, including significant contracts in Australia. Austal, which has shipyards in the US, Australia and the...

India’s new war policy to fight maritime threat

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Till now India’s war doctrine hinged on a possible two-pronged adversarial scenario keeping just Pakistan and China in mind. A key landmark change may...

Navy delays recycling of decommissioned USS Enterprise

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The US Navy says it needs more information before it can decide how to dispose of the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. As a result,...

Iran stages massive navy drill over 2mn km²

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IRANIAN naval forces have staged large-scale military drills over an area covering some two million square kilometres amid rising tensions with the US. The latest...

Indian Navy’s former aircraft carrier INS Viraatdecommissioned

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Indian Naval Ship (INS) VIRAAT, which was first commissioned in the Indian Navy on May 12, 1987, will be decommissioned from service on March...

Indonesia, Australia agree to closer naval cooperation

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Indonesian and Australian leaders have committed to free trade and closer naval cooperation as they urged countries in the Asia-Pacific region with competing territorial...

Wary of Trump unpredictability, China ramps up naval abilities

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The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China's upcoming defence budget as Beijing seeks to check U.S. dominance of...

Austal completes DDR for Pacific patrol boat

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By Joseph R. Fonseca Austal has successfully completed the Detailed Design Review (DDR) for the A$306 million Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement (PPB-R) Project on...

Robotic ground-based weapons: systems of the future battlefield

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Flying Officer Gary Martinic, Australian Air Force Cadets BY CONTRAST to weapons development which has occurred progressively over thousands of years over man’s evolutionary history, the pace with which information technology and electronics has advanced has been truly staggering. This state of perpetual evolution within both of these fields, and its union has led us for the first time in our history, to an age which has become known as the ‘age of the machines’ making both cyberwarfare and robotic warfare, or ‘lethality via remote-control’, completely possible.

Drone, not suicide boat, attacked Saudi frigate

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The Houthi boat that attacked and hit a Saudi frigate Jan. 30 in the Red Sea, reported earlier...