Marines place missile system close to China
The U.S. Marine Corps is deploying its Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) armed with Naval Strike Missiles into the heart of one of...
N Korea ramps up maritime capacity
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for accelerating the nuclear weapon capability of the Korean People’s Army Navy as he saw the first...
UK Carrier Strike Group approaches the Mediterranean
On 29 April the Royal Navy reported that its flagship HMS Prince of Wales is leading warships, aircraft and a submarine of the UK...
NZ Poseidon to monitor North Korea sanctions
On 29 April it was announced that a RNZF P-8A Poseidon aircraft has deployed to Japan to conduct monitoring of United Nations sanctions against...
ASWEX 2025 Wraps Up
By Lieutenant Marcus Middleton
The RAN’s largest and most complex anti-submarine exercise in more than a decade, ASWEX, has concluded off the West Australian coast....
Value in Chinese ship visits
By James Laurenceson and Xi Chen*
Chinese ship visits to Australia don’t always generate alarm and controversy. Last month, Hobart hosted the arrival of Chinese...
US’s huge shipbuilding task
By Selwyn Parker*
If Donald Trump hopes that looming port penalties on Chinese-built and/or owned ships will have the desired effect of reviving America’s ailing...
Canada’s sub replacement problem
Canada, has the most extensive coastline in the world, with some 151,000 miles. And in an ever-changing political landscape, the country is woefully short...
Marines trialing USVs in Indo-Pacific
The U.S. Marine Corps has deployed unmanned surface vessels (USV) to Japan as part of a larger push to bring unmanned logistics systems to...
A RAN first in nuclear training
The first enlisted Australian sailors that could eventually crew American and Australian nuclear attack submarines graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power Training Unit,...