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The Australian Government has taken provisional acceptance of the first Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Hobart. The Minister for Defence Industry, Christopher Pyne, attended a ceremony at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide on 16 June 2017.

SEVEN US sailors after dead after a US Navy destroyer collided with a Philippine-flagged merchant ship off the coast of Japan on June 17, sparking questions about how it could happen. A number of the sailors were found dead in the destroyer's flooded berthing compartments. A U.S. Coast Guard investigation team arrived in Japan Monday to start piecing together the sequence of events that led to the weekend collision between a Navy destroyer and a fully loaded container ship four times its size. There are now multiple investigations into the accident.

India is adopting a strategy of having a carrier task force as a mobile base, together with sea-based nuclear deterrence. An extension of such an arrangement would involve the Navy’s vision of developing itself as an expeditionary force, which would eventually help India to attain its desired status as a major power in the Indo-Pacific region.

LESS than five years after the China commissioned its first Soviet-origin aircraft carrier Liaoning in September 2012, it launched its first-ever domestic carrier – the Type 001A – on 26 April 2017. The occasion was celebrated in China as a major achievement symbolic of China’s ‘great power’ status.

A senior U.S. naval commander says that US policy on the South China Sea has not shifted, despite uncertainty about President Trump’s response to...

Nicole Forrest Green speaks with Alexis Morel, CEO of Thales Underwater Systems France, and a Vice President of the Thales Group, about the organisation’s strengths and superiority in the field of underwater acoustics.

Australian naval shipbuilders have joined forces for Australia's Future Frigates program in partnership with the overseas designer yet to be chosen by the government. “The...

As part of its long-awaited defence policy report, Canada has committed to building all 15 surface combatant ships at a projected cost of up...

Beijing dismissed a Pentagon report about China's military development on Wednesday, saying the country is justified in safeguarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity. "The report,...

A US nuclear-powered attack submarine arrived in the southern port city of Busan on Tuesday in what appears to be another show of Washington's...