Thoughts on the LHD and a fixed wing capability
By Commander David Hobbs, MBE, RN (Rtd)*
TO THE the logical mind, the most surprising element of the 2007 decision to build two Canberra class LHDs was the acceptance by the Australian Government of advice from a lobby group that fighter aircraft based in Australia, with their limited radius of action and fixed supply chains, could provide support for these ships and their 'all-arms' battle groups wherever they might be deployed. Gen Campbell reflects on Operation Sovereign Borders
Lieutenant General Angus Campbell reflections on Operation SOvereign Borders given at the National Security Dinner, hosted by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and Austal are here. Japan & Australia consider submarine deal that could rattle China
May 29 (Reuters) Japan is considering selling submarine technology to Australia - perhaps even a fleet of fully engineered, stealthy vessels, according to Japanese...
New radar system for Netherlands ship
Royal Netherlands Navy frigate, HNLMS Van Speijk. Re-designed main mast with the new SeaWatcher 100 active phased array surface detection and tracking radar and the repositioned SMART-S radar.
Michael Nitz - Naval Press Service Rise of Indian naval power
THE ambitious Indian defense research program has often failed to meet its goals, and its programs have often run very late, but the scope and the ambition are both worth noticing, NORMAN FRIEDMAN writes. Amphibious operations seminar held in Sydney by RUSI (NSW)
On the afternoon of Tuesday 27th May the Royal United Services Institute (New South Wales) convened an extraordinary seminar on Amphibious Operations. Several Australian...
Centenary of Australia’s first submarines marked
A hundred years after Australia's first submarines, HMAS AE1 and AE1, entered Sydney Harbour, the event was commemorated at Garden Island. The SBS report is here. Commercial 3D imaging helps Navy
Commercial 3D imaging can help navies in communicating equipment faults, according to an article on the website of the Center for International Maritime Security....
Commodore Ian Arthur Callaway OAM, RAN (Rtd.)
IAN Arthur Callaway was born in Sydney on 21 May May 1937, the son of Lieutenant Commander Arthur Henry Callaway DSO RANVR and Thelma May Callaway [nee Rowe]. He was educated at Sydney High School before being selected for the Royal Australian Navy’s 1953 Intermediate entry.
Ocean encounter helps prepare for exercise
THE Royal Australian Navy’s Collins-class submarine HMAS Sheean has taken advantage of a mid-ocean encounter by getting in some anti-submarine warfare practice on its way to Singapore for a major exercise.