From the ANI Archives: The Surface Warship as Force Multiplier
What do strategic trends in the early 21st century Asia-Pacific region mean for Australia’s future naval operational and force structure requirements? A naval historian...
China Coast Guard’s militarisation
Footage has confirmed the service entry of Z-20F maritime helicopter in the China Coast Guard, which represents a major landmark the modernisation of the...
Chinese test alters maritime geometry
By Sean Andrews*
China’s recent submarine-launched ballistic missile test into the Pacific should be understood as more than strategic signalling: it marks a shift in...
Taiwan gets coast guard cutter
Taipei received its latest cutter this week from a $1.3 billion program initiated almost a decade ago to expand Taiwan’s white hull fleet to...
Australia-Japan critical partnership
By Derek Grossman*
Just hours after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Fiji on 6 July to agree enhance cooperation with the island state, Beijing...
ANZAC commanders talk about RIMPAC
The commanding officers of the three ships in the Anzac Task Group sailing to Hawaii for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) sat down...
Securing the undersea frontier
The United Kingdom’s (UK) macroeconomic stability is directly tied to the security of vulnerable seabed cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic and North...
Uncrewed vessels should surveil Indonesian waters
By Chong De Xian and Sandy Juda Pratama*
In February, an Indonesian naval officer publicly acknowledged what had long been understood in the service: foreign...
Uncrewed and untested. Some wrong lessons
By Jennifer Parker*
When the UK launched its Defence Investment Plan on 30 June, the government promised a “generational transformation” of the military that would...
Singapore’s second multi-role combat vessel launched
On 23 July the Republic of Singapore Navy’s second Multi-Role Combat Vessel (MRCV) was launched at the ST Engineering’s Benoi Shipyard.
The Coordinating Minister for...