HMAS Anzac visits Ho Chi Minh City and Cam Ranh seaport
A vessel of the Royal Australian Navy docked in Ho Chi Minh City on last Monday afternoon (30 May 2016), commencing its four-day friendly...
Indonesian navy fires shots, seizes Chinese fishing boat
Indonesia's navy said last week (June 2016) it fired shots at a Chinese trawler when it refused to stop fishing in Indonesian waters, and...
Canada targets rising shipbuilding costs
The Canadian government is overhauling its troubled multibillion-dollar shipbuilding program, bringing in additional staff and updating cost projections.
The CAN $30 billion (US $23...
Paperless 3D design for aircraft carrier
Newport News Shipbuilding is in the midst of several pilot programs aimed at creating a Smart Shipyard that could accommodate “drawingless” plans for the...
Cash shortfall poses maintenance risk for US Navy
As the US Navy faces a $848M shortfall, picking what maintenance to skip is full of risk, the US Naval Institute News Service's Megan Eckstein reports.
One of the least understood US vessels
One of the most conspicuous ships in the Navy is among the least understood, Sam LaGrone, editor of US Naval Institute News reports from aboard the guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt. RAN tests unmanned aircraft system
The Royal Australian Navy has completed first-of-class flight trial for its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing Cam Ranh port visits in strategic context
By Zachary Abuza and Nguyen Nhat Anh*
ON 2 May, the French amphibious assault ship FS Tonnerre arrived in the Cam Ranh International Port (CRIP)...
India’s new holistic naval approach
Traditionally, security used to be thought of only in terms of the defense of territory within a state system whose defining characteristic was an incessant competition for military superiority with other nation-states, all lying within a classic state of anarchy, devoid of superior or governing authority. Today, however, India and her Navy have swung around to a far more holistic approach. Naval shipbuilding: Australia’s underlying insurance policy
Sam Goldsmith looks at how the national ship-building effort is an underlying insurance policy for Australia.