Northern Coasts exercise strengthens crisis management of Finnish Navy
THE two week long Northern Coast 2014 is Finland’s main exercise this year. The main aim of the event is to improve the multinational interoperability between participating troops. A slideshow of photos by Michael Nitz of Naval Press Service is below. Malaysian naval vessel sinks at dock
A ROYAL Malaysian Navy hydrographic vessel partially sank while docked at a naval shipyard where it was scheduled to undergo maintenance and repairs.
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F-35 strike fighters for the Canberra-class?
By David Baddams*
AIR power experts and aficionados cocked a collective eyebrow last autumn when Defence Minister David Johnston announced that F-35B strike fighters could...
World naval developments Oct 2014
Norman Friedman tells of missile advances among other things in his monthly review of naval developments. German envoy marks 1914 Cocos battle
German Ambassador tells of lessons of 1914 at commemoration of the Battle of the Cocos Islands. Recording Naval Valour and Service – the Bravo Zulu Project
By Dr Ian Pfennigwerth*
IF AUSTRALIANS in general and the RAN in particular, have a very shaky grasp upon the major events which have shaped...
Australian Defence Engineering Conference Nov 24-28
THE Australian Defence Engineering Conference (ADEC) is a groundbreaking event that brings all three ADF engineering corps under the one roof to discuss leadership,...
Emden clash shows Navy must tell its story
Mike Carlton's Vernon Parker Oration
(The sound recording is here.)
VADM GRIGGS, VADM BARRETT, RADM SAMMUT, ladies and gentlemen.
It's both an honour and a pleasure...
ADM Fisher: strategy from the ‘fish pond’
GREAT Britain’s Royal Navy (RN) that went to war in August 1914 was very much the product of a concerted effort of technological, operational, and personnel change executed over the period from 1904-1914. Steven Wills looks at the role of Admiral Jackie Fisher World Naval Developments – September 2014
THE rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is vivid proof that Al Qaeda, which began the 'long war' even before that terrible day in September 2001, is still vigorously pursuing its goals, NORMAN FRIEDMAN writes.