US and Chinese military planes come close over South China Sea
A U.S. Navy P-3 plane and a Chinese military aircraft came close to each other over the South China Sea in an incident the...
A guide to the fleet the US needs
The 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) required the Department of Defense to conduct three studies of the future fleet platform architecture needed by the Navy in the 2030 timeframe. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) was selected to conduct one of the studies. The result is Restoring American Seapower by Bryan Clark, Bryan McGrath, Peter Haynes, Jesse Sloman, and Timothy Walton. Two of the authors – Bryan Clark and Bryan McGrath – preview their findings here. Experts give forecasts on Asian-Pacific security
An expert panel gives a thorough analysis of maritime security trends in the Asia-Pacific. World Naval Developments – Jan 2016
By Norman Friedman*
In January, a Chinese carrier battle group built around the carrier Liaoning steamed around Taiwan, conducting live-fire exercises and launching and recovering...
Duterte wants China sea patrols to stop kidnappings
President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday (Jan 31) he has asked China to send sea patrols to help stop militants from abducting sailors and...
Why China and Russia fear America’s new Ford-Class aircraft carriers
IN 2009, the U.S. Navy finally began construction of the first new type of aircraft carrier in nearly thirty-five years. Kyle Mizokami looks as why China and Russia will dread the USS FORD which fully takes the nuclear supercarrier into the twenty-first century. Indian Navy launches seeks 57 carrier-borne fighter jets
Having rejected indigenously built 'Tejas' as too heavy, the Indian Navy has launched a Request for Information to procure 57 multi-role combat aircraft for...
The cyber vulnerability of modern navies
Travis Howard and José de Arimatéia da Cruz look at the cyber threats to the US Navy, a vast, worldwide organization with unique missions and challenges, with information security (and information warfare at large) with more thanr 320,000 active duty personnel, 274 ships with over 20 percent of them deployed across the world at any one time. Turkey builds first frigate
Work began Thursday on Turkey's first national frigate as part of the national vessel project. Speaking at a ceremony at the Istanbul Shipyard, Defense...
First ATM on warship
Indian Navy's only operational aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya will soon to have an (Automatic Teller Machine) ATM on-board.
Country's largest Public Sector Bank State...