US Navy stretches submarine lifetime
The US Navy is stretching the lives of some of its submarines, if only by a year or two. In the latest version of...
Australian soldiers to storm Hawaii beach in exercise
Australian soldiers are expected to lead a battalion of troops in the storming of a Hawaii beach during the world's largest maritime exercises this...
Navantia signs contract for platform-design services
Navantia has just signed a new contract with the Capability and Sustainment Group (CASG) for platform design services. This contract will allow Navantia Australia...
Saab wins frigate combat-systems contract
The Australian Government has contracted Saab to provide sustainment services for the combat system on the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) Anzac-class frigates. Under the...
RAN mine-hunter visits Port Kembla
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) minehunter known as HMAS Gascoyne has visited Port Kembla for the first time in almost seven years. HMAS Gascoyne...
Ford carrier delayed again due to ‘first-of-class issues’
Delivery of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has been pushed back again, this time by about a month and a half due to ongoing first-in-class challenges.
Raytheon, Navy Set to Start AMDR Testing in Hawaii
The Navy and Raytheon are set to start testing the AN/SPY-6(v) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) at the service’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, the company’s AMDR program director told US Naval Institute News (July 2016). Going just short of war
China is employing measures short of war to attain strategic objectives. Other countries should meet the challenge, Vidya Sagar Reddy writes. Don’t forget human factor in littoral combat
James Holmes stresses the importance on the human factor in littoral combat, arguing that merely getting information and feeding it into a computer is not enough. NATO countries’ defence spending revealed
NATO collects defence expenditures from Allies on a regular basis and presents aggregates and subsets of this information.
Each Allied country’s Ministry of Defence...