RAN to have full operational control over subs: Mead
Australian Navy commanders will have full operational control over their submarines and the powerful nuclear reactors onboard, despite the potential presence of US or...
Australian company supplying metal printing to US Navy
Australian company AML3D is supplying the US Department of Defence (US DoD) its industrial 3D metal printing technology to help scale up parts supply...
Virginia-class line now fully staffed
The Virginia-class submarine production line at Newport News Shipbuilding is now fully staffed, after taking a back seat to the preeminent Columbia-class submarine program...
After 42 years, big N-sub withdrawn
After 41 years in Arctic waters, the giant Cold War weapon TK-208 “Dmitri Donskoy” is withdrawn from service, the Barents Observer reports.
The Typhoon was the...
New B21s mooted for Australia
America's next-generation B-21 bomber could be sent to Australia to "accelerate" national security under a congressional proposal put to the US secretary of defense,...
Ship-builders look to 3D printing
The aircraft carrier construction team at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding faced a key deadline in March 2022. The team was on the hook to move...
A strategist’s appreciation of AI and robotics in maritime domain
By Commander Matthew Houston RAN*
Introduction
In 2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted that ‘whichever country leads the way in artificial intelligence (AI) research will come...
Attack helicopters on the way out
By Bradley Perrett*
France invented the attack helicopter in 1956. Sixty-seven years later, Japan has decided that the idea has had its day, the Australian...
Maiden landing of fighter on board INS Vikrant
On 6 February 2023 a LCA (Navy) and a MiF-29K fighter aircraft landed on and took off from India's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant for the first...
French Navy’s round-world exercise
By Dzirhan Mahadzir*
French Navy amphibious warship FS Dixmude (L9015) and frigate FS La Fayette (F710) will depart on Feb. 8 for the Mission Jeanne...