Vol 1 of history of Australian naval awards completed
Ian Pfennigwerth has completed Volume 1 of his book Bravo Zulu: Honours and Awards to Australian Naval People 1900-2014.
US Navy increases order for Australian-designed combat vessel
The US Navy has increased its order for a Littoral Combat Ship from Australian maritime defence manufacturer Austal Ltd. in a deal worth up...
9 Apr 1940. Vampire and Hermes go down.
On this day in 1942, Japanese aircraft sank HMAS Vampire (pictured) and the RN light carrier HMS Hermes. Hermes was torpedoed sank with the loss of 300 men. Bombs broke Vampire’s back when they struck amidships. World naval developments Mar 2016
US Navy faces mine-hunting choices, Norman Friedman writes.
RN and UK’s strategic review
The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir George Zambellas KCB DSC ADC, talks about where the Royal Navy stands following the Strategic Defence and Security Review. WA’s World Class Naval Support Sector
By Serge DeSilva-Ranasinghe, Mitchell Sutton and Tim Dempsey*
SINCE the instigation of the ‘Two Ocean Navy’ policy of 1987, Perth has emerged as the Royal...
Doubts over US big-carrier policy
THE US Navy has a new aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford. Named for the underwhelming vice-president who stepped up to the oval office when Richard Nixon resigned the US presidency over the Watergate scandal, it is first of a new class of 10 carriers that are planned to be built between now and the 2060s. This is a remarkable declaration of the Pentagon's faith in such huge and massively expensive ships, Hugh White writes. Drone surface boat to monitor submarines
The US Navy has begun testing a radical 'drone boat' that will automatically scour the seas for enemy submarines for months at a time.
China to join naval exercises off Indonesia
CHINESE ships left the port of Qingdao on Saturday to take part in naval exercises off the coast of Indonesia, China's Ministry of Defence...
UN looks at stricter conservation rules on high seas
At the United Nations in New York, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is representing the interests of shipowners at the opening session of...