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Full text of 2016 Vernon Parker Oration. Kim Beazley

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This is the full text of the Vernon Parker Oration given by former Defence Minister and Australian Ambassador to the US, the Honourable Kim...

Vice Admiral Robert ‘Tubby’ Squires – obituary

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Vice Admiral Robert “Tubby” Squires, who has died aged 89, helped to commission Britain’s first nuclear-powered submarine. In 1960, when he was appointed first lieutenant...

Israeli Navy To Equip Surface Fleet With RapidFire Guns

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After more than a decade of discussions, the Israeli Navy is in contract negotiations with the US Navy to purchase 76mm rapid-fire guns from...

China prepares for ‘people’s war at sea’ to counter offshore security threats

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China has called for preparations for a “people’s war at sea” to counter offshore security threats while its top court warned foreigners of criminal...

South Australia trade strategy to target Europe after shipbuilding deals

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SOUTH Australia will directly target Europe with a new trade strategy aimed at leveraging activity off three new shipbuilding contracts, amid uncertainty around the...

MoD to release £1bn for stealth submarines

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The Ministry of Defence is planning to release more than £1bn, possibly as early as September, to enable BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce to begin...

HMAS Canberra and HMAS Shropshire: never say die

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canberra2On 9 August 1942 HMAS Canberra was lost in the night battle of Savo Island while protecting the Guadalcanal beachheads as part of a USN Task Force. Eighty four of her ship's company lost their lives. This account of the loss of the ship, and what became of her surviving crew when they took HMAS Shropshire to war, was prepared for a speech written for delivery at this year's Canberra memorial service in Canberra by LCDR Desmond Woods, RANR.

World Naval Developments – July 2016

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russian baltic fleetNorman Friedman looks at the consequences of Russian President Vladimir Putin firing the entire leadership of his Baltic Fleet, a purge on a scale not seen since Stalin’s bloody purges of the 1930s.

Ohio replacement to honor DC

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The Navy’s new planned class of ballistic missile submarines will be named in honor of the District of Columbia, two Navy officials confirmed to...

New clue in search for USS Indianapolis

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More than 70 years after the cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was sunk, a new clue discovered by a Navy researcher could give expeditions hunting...