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Australia's Minister for Defence, Senator Marise Payne, tells of the importance of freedom of shipping lanes to Australia's prosperity.

NINETY ships, including 22 from foreign navies, are expected to take part in fleet review The International Fleet Review to be held is only the second such big time naval exercise the country has seen.

ON 7 January 2016 the authorities in Bahrain issued an Administrative Order stating that due to the recent severance of diplomatic relations between the...

THE Navy's littoral combat ship struggled in drills at sea to fend off a swarm of small attacking vessels similar to the Iranian boats...

By Norman Friedman* EARLY in January North Korea celebrated Kim Jong-Un’s birthday by conducting its fourth nuclear test – this one, it said, of a hydrogen bomb. That got considerable attention. Unlike atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs can have nearly unlimited explosive power – the largest was a Soviet 50-megaton bomb tested in the 1960s.

Michael Nitz recently photographed three good-looking ships of the Chinese people’s Liberation Army (Navy). They are Type 054A frigate Yun Cheng, Type 071...

By Dr Tim Coyle examines the development of a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) maritime reconnaissance and embryonic strike capability to support the emerging strategic relevance and standing of the service in the latter half of the 1930 in the context of the defence of Australia.

THE second highest Australian honour – the George Cross – has been highlighted in a new display dedicated to each Royal Australian Naval member...

By Serge DeSilva-Ranasinghe AUSTRALIA'S vast northern recesses is a strategically sensitive region, and remains the subject of ongoing debate as to how best to secure this porous area. Situated in Darwin, the Northern Command (NORCOM), is the premier defence organisation that oversees and coordinates Defence's presence in Australia's remote North and North West regions. Commodore Brenton Smyth, the Commander of NORCOM, gave an exclusive interview describing the role and inner workings of one of Australia's most strategic military commands.

By Dave Majumdar* RUSSIA is developing a family of unmanned surface and underwater vehicles, a high-ranking official in that country’s navy said this week. While the U.S. Navy has been developing naval drones for more than a decade, this is the first indication that Moscow is working on similar capabilities.