New Government and submarine program
By Dr John Bruni and CDRE Pat Tyrrell OBE RN (Ret’d)*
Australia made international headlines when it agreed to the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. But,...
A binary submarine culture
By Ryan C. Walker*
During my short tenure as a submariner in the U.S. Navy, from 2014-2019, I observed the friendly rivalry between sailors who...
Ireland decommissions a third of fleet
Three of the Irish Navy’s nine ships – the Le Eithne, Le Orla and Le Ciara – were decommissioned yesterday with a combined service...
HMAS Childers helps stricken vessel
Whilst alongside Norship Dockyard in Cairns, HMAS Childers rendered assistance to a civilian vessel named Experience which suffered an engine failure, the Royal Australian...
US fleet size not first priority
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday has long insisted he must first prioritize the readiness of today’s fleet, followed by increasing its lethality...
RIMPAC ‘not aimed at China’
The sprawling Rim of the Pacific 2022 exercise is not designed to counter or threaten China, according to the head of the U.S. Pacific...
Royal Navy seizes Iranian weapons
In early 2022, whilst on routine maritime security operations, Royal Navy ship HMS Montrose seized Iranian weapons from speedboats being operated by smugglers in...
Russian Navy gets nuclear torpedo
A Russian Navy submarine armed with a strategic nuclear torpedo the size of a school bus was delivered to the Kremlin this week, according...
Bonhomme Richard fiasco
The initial response to the July 2020 fire that destroyed the multibillion-dollar amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard was uncoordinated and hampered by confusion as...
12 bodies found after vessel snapped in two
Chinese search and rescue officials pulled 12 bodies on Monday from waters southwest of Hong Kong after an engineering vessel snapped in two as...