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. Huge new US naval dry dock
A FLOATING dry dock that’s big enough to hold any warship other than an aircraft carrier arrived at BAE Systems in Barrio Logan on...
Danes to help Aussie naval ship-building
The Australian federal government is turning to Denmark's Odense Maritime Technologies A/S (OMT) to help it get its naval shipbuilding program on track.
OMT was...
Contracted vessel operator to support, maintain, crew and operate the MATV.
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is seeking to establish an arrangement for three (3) years with two options of one (1) year extensions for...
World naval developments Nov 2016
Norman Friedman look as the terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system in his monthly Naval Development series. ‘Subs, destroyers and amphibs’ to make up 350-ship goal
The Navy would prioritize increasing the production rate of existing ship classes and inserting new capabilities into mature hull designs as a way to...
Navy LADS Dash 8 deploys to New Zealand
The Royal Australian Navy’s only fixed-wing aircraft, its contractor-operated Dash 8 Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) platform is due to arrive in New Zealand...
New president’s maritime strategy
The election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency of the United States represents a break with past policies as did that of Ronald W. Reagan in 1980 and offers the Navy an opportunity to make a fresh argument for a global warfighting strategy, Steve Wills argues. Maritime hybrid warfare is coming
US Admiral James Stavridis (ret) looks as hybrid warfare incorporating unconventional, and unacknowledged, forces on the battlefield in surprising ways to undermine conventional forces and obscure attribution. It is on its way. Three Chinese Navy ships to make port In San Diego
THREE Chinese Navy ships are scheduled to make a port call in San Diego next week, the U.S. Navy announced Thursday. The frigates YANCHENG...