Taiwan turning screws on Washington’s sub deal
IN 2001, President George W. Bush's administration released the largest arms package to Taiwan since the closing of US military bases on the island in 1979. The deal included four Kidd-class destroyers, 12 P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft and eight diesel-electric submarines. But now there are hurdles with the submarine part of the package. USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) does first at-sea tests
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 7, 2015) The future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) is underway for the first time conducting at-sea tests and trials in the...
Russian-Indian naval exercise Indra December 7-12
An eighth Russian-Indian naval exercise Indra Navy will be held in the Bay of Bengal, off India’s state of Andhra Pradesh, on December 7-12, according to an official statement by the Indian Navy obtained by TASS. LNG: a marine fuel solution for US ships
Siemens Drilling and Marine and Lloyd’s Register announced a best of industry team to make LNG widely available to ship owners seeking to use natural gas as a propulsion fuel, meeting tough sulfur (SOx) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission reduction requirements, whether regionally or globally. The South China Sea arbitration: Why does it matter?
Damos Dumoli Agusman and Haryo Budi Nugroho look at the Philippines v China case in The Hague. 
THE defence of the nation, together with provision of the physical, economic and social security of the citizens, are the central planks that support the legitimacy, credibility and authority of any government, the Chief of the Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, said in a speech to the Lowy Institute which drew on principles enunciated by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin (pictured) in 1907. India’s new naval strategy
The release by Indian Defence Minister Shri Monohar Parrikar (pictured) of India's new maritime strategy shows that proxy war through terrorism has not prevented India from adopting an outward-looking approach to maritime security and shows India is dilating the geographical scope of its maritime focus, Dr Gurpreet S. Khurana argues. Answering the Call. Port of Melbourne statue unveiling
Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Tim Barrett unveils memorial statue at the Port of Melbourne. Commissioning of HMAS Adelaide
HMAS Adelaide, the second of two Landing Helicopter Docks (LHDs) built for the Royal Australian Navy, was commissioned into the Fleet on 4 December 2015, alongside Garden Island, Sydney. US retreating in South China Sea
The US is ‘steadily retreating’ in the South China Sea dispute, according to Dean Cheng, one of the top US experts on the Chinese military and the PRC’s space program and an analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation.