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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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

As the South China Sea dispute continues to command headlines, such issues as China’s island building, U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS), and the contested arbitration have received justified attention, but a concurrent trend in the activities of the PLA Navy (PLAN) in the South China Sea also merits closer consideration. Within the past several months, the PLAN’s South Sea Fleet has engaged in relatively sophisticated anti-submarine warfare (ASW) drills, Elsa B. Kania writes.

The U.S. Navy plans to send a ship to New Zealand in November, Prime Minister John Key said (July 2016), formally ending a standoff...

A detailed analysis and historic perspective of why China dreams of being a great maritime power.

China aims to launch a series of offshore nuclear power platforms to promote development in the South China Sea, Chinese state media reports. The China...