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By Joseph R. Fonseca Austal has successfully completed the Detailed Design Review (DDR) for the A$306 million Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement (PPB-R) Project on...

Flying Officer Gary Martinic, Australian Air Force Cadets BY CONTRAST to weapons development which has occurred progressively over thousands of years over man’s evolutionary history, the pace with which information technology and electronics has advanced has been truly staggering. This state of perpetual evolution within both of these fields, and its union has led us for the first time in our history, to an age which has become known as the ‘age of the machines’ making both cyberwarfare and robotic warfare, or ‘lethality via remote-control’, completely possible.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The Houthi boat that attacked and hit a Saudi frigate Jan. 30 in the Red Sea, reported earlier...

By LT X* THE age of the strike carrier is over. As the United States enters an era where the potential for modern great-power war is increasing dramatically in Eurasia, a return to the traditional roles of the aircraft carrier is required to maintain maritime access. Carrier-borne over-land strike warfare has not proved decisive in previous conflicts in heavily contested air defense environments, and will not prove so in the future.

* James Mugg and Andrew Davies IT SEEMS like everyone’s getting a drone these days. The latest kid on the block is the Navy, which is about to start experimenting with the capabilities of remotely piloted aircraft.

By Hugh White* Most of us would agree that the Fall of Singapore in February 1942 remains the biggest strategic shock Australia has ever received, but we pay too little attention to why it was such a shock, and what we can learn from it.

By James Goldrick* THE fall of Singapore reflects failure at many levels, but not in the way most observers think. The British had to fight the war they got in 1939, rather than a war that was yet to happen in 1941. Had the Japanese attacked in the Far East before the Germans attacked Poland, the British would have sent their forces east, however reluctantly. But that wasn’t the order of events.

Nicole Forrest Green speaks with Rear Admiral Bernard-Antoine Morio de l’Isle France’s Deputy Chief of Navy for operations and former Pacific Joint Commander, following the historic signing of an Inter-Government Agreement on December 20th 2016 in Adelaide by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and France’s Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

THE US Navy will need a larger engineering directorate as it grows the fleet in coming years, to avoid problems faced in past ship classes like the Littoral Combat Ship and the Zumwalt guided missile destroyer stemming from the Navy being too hands-off on technical specifications.

THE retired defence chief Angus Houston has warned Australia should not participate in freedom of navigation operations within 12 nautical miles of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea, The Guardian reports. He has also criticised the push to blockade China’s artificial islands, saying that would invite a “sharp response” from Beijing.