Australia crafting anti-access and area denial strategy
The Australian military is shaping a transformed military force, one built around new platforms but ones that operate in a joint manner in an extended battlespace. The goal is to extend the defense perimeter of Australia and create, in effect, their own version of an Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) strategy.
Integrating Australia’s defence force: the naval perspective
Speech by Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Tim Barrett Address to Williams Foundation Seminar
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Members of the Board of The Williams...
Ex-RAN officer to head Lockheed Martin Australia
Former Fleet Air Arm Commander Vince Di Pietro will succeed Raydon Gates as vice president and chief executive of Lockheed Martin Australia from January...
HMAS Farncomb back in service
The Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) upgraded Collins-class submarine HMAS Farncomb has been re-commissioned into service after successfully completing a full cycle docking. HMAS Farncomb...
40 warships in formation (2.30min video)
40 warships in formation off Hawaii. 2.30min video
RIMPAC major step for Australia ahead of first ARG deployment
The Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise has given the Australian landing force a well-timed opportunity: soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR) played a central role in three-ship Amphibious Ready Group operations off Hawaii ahead of conducting ARG operations on their own for the first time ever next year, US Naval Institute News reports. Marine Harriers Strike ISIS Targets in Libya from USS Wasp
Marine AV-8B Harriers operating from USS Wasp (LHD-1) have struck ISIS targets Libya, two U.S. defense officials confirmed to US Naval Institute.
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India to buy three Russian frigates
India is set to purchase three frigates from Moscow originally intended for Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet, according to a Thursday report in Jane’s...
Drone program ‘consistently beats human pilot’
An artificial intelligence program allowed drones to repeatedly and convincingly “defeat” a human pilot in simulations in a test done with the Air Force...
Chinese J-20 ‘an irrelevance’ compared to F-35
The new Air Force Chief of Staff has that compared to the F-35, the Chinese J-20 “is almost an irrelevant comparison”, Breaking Defese reports.
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