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Deception and the Backfire bomber

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By Jon Solomon* LAST (northern) winter’s Naval War College Review contained a must-read article on the Soviet Navy’s doctrine from the 1980s for employing its...

‘Slack’: software to enable naval collaboration

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'Slack' is a communication tool set designed by software engineers to streamline their own team’s communication. In that spirit, it is very deliberately built, intuitive to use, and efficiently designed. More relevant to any commander or unit leader looking to streamline their team’s communication, Slack works without the need for any installation or system integration. Users log in and build a team through the Slack website. That’s it.

China flexing while India scrambles

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indian submarineTWO events set the stage for India-China strategic competition going underwater – one is the docking of China’s submarine in Sri Lanka’s Colombo port and the other is the loss of India’s submarine INS Sindhurakshak in a major fire incident. These and subsequent events showed that China is signalling its strategic intentions in the Indian Ocean via its submarines while the resident power is scrambling.

Information management in anti-sub warfare

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P-8A_Poseidon-672x372THE PAST last decade has featured rapid advances in computing power, autonomous systems, data storage, and analytics. These tools are double-edged weapons, offering possible advantages to the U.S. while also opening the door to increased adversary capabilities.

Asia-Pacific’s principled security network

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carterSpeech by US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Singapore, June 04, 2016, at 2016 IISS Shangri-La Dialogue Miracle after miracle has occurred here: Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Southeast Asia rose and prospered, and now, China and India and others are rising and prospering.

Protecting the sea lanes from sea-air drones

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Loon-Copter-Drone-300x201WHAT are some of the ways the U.S. and other countries could defend maritime assets against swarms of Sea-Air drones? Consider a convoy system with human centered technology, algorithms from nature, and elements of gaming.

Call for Submarine Institute conference presentations

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PRESENTATIONS for Asia-Pacific’s leading forum on submarine matters – the Submarine Institute of Australia’s (SIA) eighth biennial conference – are now being invited. National...

What aircraft carrier is that? LHDs on display

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big ship 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: book on Teddy Sheean launched

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

Not shunned – the strange story of HMAS Armidale’s LCDR Richards

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Richards RANR (Navy) 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.