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THE size of a new Australian aircraft carrier is what first impresses you, Tom Lewis writes after touring HMAS Adelaide. These ships are huge – the biggest ever operated by the Navy. At 27, 850 tonnes they are 7,850 more displacement tonnes than the old carrier Melbourne, the fixed wing ship which finished up in 1984.

‘Honour Denied: Teddy Sheean A Tasmanian Hero and other brave warriors of the Royal Australian Navy’ has been launched at Parliament House in Hobart.

FOR many years a story of how the Royal Australian Navy badly treated the commander of HMAS Armidale after his ship was sunk has been promulgated. But it now seems this is not true, military historian Tom Lewis writes.

A vessel of the Royal Australian Navy docked in Ho Chi Minh City on last Monday afternoon (30 May 2016), commencing its four-day friendly...

Indonesia's navy said last week (June 2016) it fired shots at a Chinese trawler when it refused to stop fishing in Indonesian waters, and...

The Canadian government is overhauling its troubled multibillion-dollar shipbuilding program, bringing in additional staff and updating cost projections. The CAN $30 billion (US $23...

Newport News Shipbuilding is in the midst of several pilot programs aimed at creating a Smart Shipyard that could accommodate “drawingless” plans for the...

As the US Navy faces a $848M shortfall, picking what maintenance to skip is full of risk, the US Naval Institute News Service's Megan Eckstein reports.

One of the most conspicuous ships in the Navy is among the least understood, Sam LaGrone, editor of US Naval Institute News reports from aboard the guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt.

The Royal Australian Navy has completed first-of-class flight trial for its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing