China will challenge US naval supremacy ‘within a year’
China's biggest challenge to the supremacy of the US Navy will come within the year, a well regarded Australian strategic analyst predicted in Washington...
Brunei, 1962 – The RAN and its unfought war
By Mike Fogarty
The Brunei operation was conducted from 8 to 23 December, 1962. It also extended to North Borneo (Sarawak). It was an internal...
RIMPAC and China’s push with Belt and Road, the seas and the net
By Nicholas Stuart
The water sparkles.
I’m standing, this blissful morning, on the bridge of HMAS Adelaide, just off Hawaii. The tropical storm clouds have parted...
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...