Contract for French subs signed
Australia has signed the contract to buy 12 new military submarines designed by French contractor DCNS. US contractor Lockheed Martin will supply the weaponry...
Italian frigate to visit Australia
An Italian Navy FREMM frigate will visit Australia in January and February and hold exercises with the Australian Navy in the wake of the...
Why China seized the drone
Armando J. Heredia looks at why the Chinese Navy seized an American unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) operating in international waters off the Western coast of the Philippines. The unmanned era is already here
By CDRSalamander
LAST week we saw the 75th Pearl Harbor Day pass us by. There are libraries full of books about how it should not...
HMAS Brisbane shows Australians can build for Navy: CN
Speech by the Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, at the launching of HMAS Brisbane. Techport Australia, Osborne South Australia. Frigate short-lister to set-up Canberra HQ
Fincantieri has been short-listed by the Australian Government to bid to design and build nine new frigates for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), and...
China delivers subs to Bangladesh. Intentions?
By Gurpreet S. Khurana*
ON 14 November 2016, the Bangladesh Navy (BN) took delivery of two old refurbished Chinese Type 035G Ming-class diesel-electric submarines. As...
Is 2017 the breakthrough year for unmanned vessels?
Autonomy is largely seen as the next big disruptor in the maritime world. So, is 2017 the year in which unmanned vessels really begin...
US Navy looking at green energy for operations
THE new, high-tech gear, equipment, vehicles and weapons systems the Marine Corps wants for the future force require more batteries and fuel than what Marines had a decade ago, so it is looking at other sources of energy, the US Naval Institute reports. Anti-ship missile threat: are we ready?
Michael Milburn examines the effectiveness of current ship self-defense capabilities on U.S. Coast Guard cutters within the context of expanded roles in the maritime domain and proposes proposes solutions to current gaps in capability and presents a high level cost-benefit analysis to the proposal.