Deception and the Backfire bomber
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
'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
TWO 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. Call for Submarine Institute conference presentations
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
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. 







