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The Minister for Defence, Senator Marise Payne, together with Air Vice Marshal Steven Roberton, Air Commander Australia, have welcomed the full fleet of EA-18G...

Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne says he wants Australia to become a major arms exporter on par with Britain, France and Germany and use...

Dozens of warships, submarines and aircraft take part in the drills, which are aimed at getting the three powerful navies used to working together including for possible joint patrols across the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.

1. This is not the first, but the seventh submarine to be deployed in the area. 2. Chinese warships and submarines in the Region appeared three years ago 2013-14. 3. Recently, Indian satellites and naval assets picked up at least 14 Chinese Navy warships. In an aggressive move, China has deployed a submarine in the Indian Ocean Region, as the month-long stand-off in the Doklam plateau between the Indian and Chinese People's Liberation Army continues.

It’s hard not to have your imagination fired by the awesome image of a floodlit HMS Queen Elizabeth squeezing under the Forth Bridge. At a cost of £3.1 billion and without a full complement of jets to fly off its deck until 2023, the Royal Navy’s next flagship may be a white elephant – but as a feat of engineering, it can’t fail to impress.

A statement from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the US had "trespassed" and that China sent "military vessels and fighter planes in...

The collision off Japan that claimed the lives of seven sailors on the U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald punched a hole large enough to drive a tractor trailer through, leaving the service with the considerable task of putting the crippled destroyer back together again.

On 8 June, General Gatot Nurmantyo, Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia: TNI), confirmed plans to build a military base on Morotai Island. The decision to build the base on Morotai is likely influenced by the strong presence of militant groups in the region, especially Abu Sayyaf. In April, Malaysian and Philippine forces thwarted a large-scale abduction attempt by the jihadist group that was to take place between the Bohol and Jolo Islands around Mindanao, in the southern Philippines.

By Norman Friedman* THE new British carrier Queen Elizabeth, the first of two, began sea trials in May. She represents the revival of British fixed-wing naval aviation. The last earlier British fixed-wing carrier airplane, the Sea Harrier fighter, was retired in 2006, and the three light carriers have been discarded. Queen Elizabeth is also by far the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy.

LCDR Henry Hall MBE, OAM, RAN (Rtd), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 – HMAS Albatross. Commodore R.G. Morrison CSC, RANR