Pakistan’s navy: a quick look
By Alex Calvo*
Traditionally the junior service, operating in the Army’s shadow and receiving a ten percent share of the 2015 defence budget of $6.6...
Importance of industry-navy nexus revealed
THIS account of shipbuilding and manufacturing industry interaction with the United States Congress is a reminder the current discussion in Australia about ship building...
Russian activity laid bare
This powerpoint presentation, and in particular the account of the discussion which follows it, will be of interest to ANI members for at least...
Does Japan expect an alliance with Australia as part of a submarine deal?
By Hugh White*
WHAT does Japan want? This is much more important to the subs decision than the question many people seem to think matters most, which is what China wants us to do, Hugh White writes.
Rolls-Royce reveals future shore-control centre to control unmanned ships
Rolls-Royce unveiled its vision of the land-based control centres that we believe will remotely monitor and control the unmanned ships of the future.
In a...
Canada’s national shipbuilding strategy ‘bizarre’
DAVIE yard has offered to refit existing ships available at steep discounts due to slowdown in oil industry. The nearly 50-year-old Canadian Coast Guard...
Nuclear aircraft carriers: number one asymmetric military advantage
THERE has been a lot of talk lately by senior Pentagon officials that the US military is losing its long-held advantages in high-end warfighting...
An object lesson? First UK nuclear ballistic missile submarine program
THE recently published history of the British submarine service since 1945, The Silent Deep by Peter Hennessy and James Jinks, contains much food for thought for those interested in Australia’s future submarine capability, James Goldbrick writes.
Russia strategic nuclear submarine returns to base from Barents Sea mission
THE crew of Russia’s VLADIMIR MONOMAKH strategic nuclear-powered submarine has completed its planned mission in the Barents Sea and arrived at the main base of the Northern Fleet’s submarine forces - Gadzhiyevo (Murmansk region), the fleet's press service told TASS this week (March 2016). Transparency as strategy in the South China Sea
The South China Sea is an opaque, low-information environment. Greater transparency would lead to greater stability and access, five leading defence academics write.