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Ex-RAN officer to head Lockheed Martin Australia

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Former Fleet Air Arm Commander Vince Di Pietro will succeed Raydon Gates as vice president and chief executive of Lockheed Martin Australia from January...

HMAS Farncomb back in service

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The Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) upgraded Collins-class submarine HMAS Farncomb has been re-commissioned into service after successfully completing a full cycle docking. HMAS Farncomb...

40 warships in formation (2.30min video)

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40 warships in formation off Hawaii. 2.30min video

RIMPAC major step for Australia ahead of first ARG deployment

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HMAS Canberra offloads troops to Island of HawaiiThe Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise has given the Australian landing force a well-timed opportunity: soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR) played a central role in three-ship Amphibious Ready Group operations off Hawaii ahead of conducting ARG operations on their own for the first time ever next year, US Naval Institute News reports.

Marine Harriers Strike ISIS Targets in Libya from USS Wasp

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Marine AV-8B Harriers operating from USS Wasp (LHD-1) have struck ISIS targets Libya, two U.S. defense officials confirmed to US Naval Institute. Beginning on Aug....

India to buy three Russian frigates

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India is set to purchase three frigates from Moscow originally intended for Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet, according to a Thursday report in Jane’s...

Drone program ‘consistently beats human pilot’

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An artificial intelligence program allowed drones to repeatedly and convincingly “defeat” a human pilot in simulations in a test done with the Air Force...

Chinese J-20 ‘an irrelevance’ compared to F-35

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The new Air Force Chief of Staff has that compared to the F-35, the Chinese J-20 “is almost an irrelevant comparison”, Breaking Defese reports. The...

China now has three runways in Spratly Islands

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Civilian planes landed on Subi and Mischief reefs for the first time on July 12, giving China three operational runways in the disputed Spratly...

Farsi Island: surface warfare’s wake-up call

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farsi The Farsi Island incident reveals the importance of riverine warfare.