India’s first stealth missile destroyer
Y 12704 (Visakhapatnam), the lead ship of Project 15B stealth guided missile destroyers being built at Mazgaon Docks Limited (MDL), was delivered to the...
Us, Israeli and Gulf allies in exercise
Naval forces from the United States, Israel and two Gulf Arab states are taking part in a joint security drill in the Red Sea,...
Russian ships deploy to Pacific
The corvette Gremyashchy and the Kilo class submarines Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Volkhov recently made a scheduled call at the port of Manila. This was part...
China builds model US ships in desert
Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly for practice for a...
AUKUS and France: awkward lessons
By Peter Jennings*
It’s not yet two months old, but our AUKUS partnership with the United States and Britain is already showering us with lessons...
China and Turkey deliver ships to Pakistan
It is the first of the four frigates committed by China, for which a deal was signed between the two allies in 2017. The...
HMAS Anzac joins Indonesian exercise
HMAS Anzac trained with two Indonesian Navy ships this month during Exercise New Horizon, a key biennial maritime high-end warfare engagement.
The exercise was conducted...
RNZN leads drug bust
A RNZN-led Combined Task Force has achieved another successful counter-narcotics operation, with the seizure of illicit drugs that would otherwise have been sold to...
Australian submarine choices
The political and strategic ramifications of the AUKUS pact announced in September continue to reverberate but the details of how Australia will actually acquire...
Australia already has a submarine capability gap
By Marcus Hellyer*
At Senate estimates hearings on 24 March of this year, the independent Senator Malcolm Roberts bluntly asked Defence Department officials, ‘If the...