Singapore’s First Littoral Mission Vessel Delivered
The Republic of Singapore Navy took delivery of its first littoral mission vessel, INDEPENDENCE, on Friday at the Tuas Naval Base.
Independence, launched in July...
Kim Beazley reflects on US relationship
In an interview conducted at the end of his extended posting as Australian ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley told Fergus Hanson* that...
Valuable US ties threatened by Trump: Beazley
The Australian-US relationship runs deeper and is more important than many Australians think, both militarily and economically, according to former Deputy Prime Minister and...
Ian Croser, inventor of CEA family of naval radars, honoured by ANI
The significant contribution of Ian Croser AM, co-founder of CEA Technologies, has been recognised (22 June 2016) with the presentation of the inaugural Australian...
The politics of the two-ocean Navy (Part 2)
By Serge DeSilva-Ranasinghe*
THE Ocean Navy policy of 1987 is arguably the boldest shift in force posture Australia has made since the Second World War. In this second part or a two-part rare and exclusive insight into how this came into being, security analyst Serge DeSilva-Ranasinghe interviewed former Defence Minister Kim Beazley, the policy's chief architect. He went on to discuss why the policy was strategically necessary, the rationale behind the expansion of HMAS Stirling (pictured), the challenges of implementation, and the contribution it has made to the future of Australia's national security. Russia warns on Black Sea forces
A senior Russian diplomat warned NATO (June 2016) not to build up its naval forces in the Black Sea, saying such a move would...
Japanese foreign minister’s concern about Chinese naval ships
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida expressed concern Friday about "escalating" moves by Chinese navy ships following repeated entries into Japanese territorial waters, or those nearby,...






A NAVAL officer who may have brought down the Zero fighter which crash-landed on Melville Island on 19 February 1942 has died in Brisbane. Lieutenant Frederick Sydney Sharp, known as Syd, was stationed at East Point on the Port War Signal Station facility which checked shipping in and out of the harbour, during the first air raid on Darwin.