UK votes to renew RN’s Trident n-weapons program
The U.K. House of Commons approved a measure to renew the Royal Navy’s Trident nuclear weapons program and continue funding for four planned Successor-class...
China ‘will not stop Spratly build’
The head of the People’s Liberation Army Navy told his U.S. counterpart that China has no intention of stopping its island building campaign in...
Video: Former Frigate USS Thach hit in live fire sinking exercise
Former Frigate USS Thach hit in live fire sinking exercise
Russian destroyer shadows USS America
A Russian destroyer shadowed the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) on July 16 and 17 during the Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise,...
US Navy names carrier unmanned aerial vehicle
After months of deliberation, the name and designation of the Navy’s first carrier unmanned aerial vehicle are now official: MQ-25A Stingray, service officials told...
Unmanned technologies hitting the mark in US
William Roper is “buying time” for the rest of the Pentagon, he told Breaking Defense. His Strategic Capabilities Office finds near-term but game-changing upgrades for existing weapons systems, preserving American advantage over rapidly advancing adversaries while DARPA and Defense Department labs develop a new generation of breakthroughs. Final Seahawk delivered to RAN
OWEGO, N.Y., July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has delivered the 24th, and final, MH-60R SEAHAWK® helicopter to the U.S. Navy in support of the Navy's Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The milestone delivery took place during a July 27 ceremony at Lockheed Martin's Owego, New York facility.
Can China Enforce a South China Sea Air-Defense Identification Zone?
Is China about to declare an Air-Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the South China Sea? And how effectively would it be able to enforce such a zone, Mike Yeo asks
More being done by navies on illegal fishing
In mid-March, Argentina’s Coast Guard shot at and sank a Chinese vessel that was illegally fishing in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Across the globe, navies and coast guards are devoting more resources to combat illegal fishing, as this maritime crime is a major cause of the depredation of the global maritime ecosystem. Latin America is no exception to this phenomenon, W. Alejandro Sanchez writes.
Russian undersea resurgence causes concern
Increasing Russian submarine operations over the past several years have caused considerable concern in capitals across Europe and in the United States, Andrew Metrick writes.