USS Nimitz heads to sea after quarantine
The aircraft carrier Nimitz and portions of its strike group left San Diego Monday for a deployment, the Navy Times reports.
Navy officials declined to say where...
Malacca Strait mine force needed
By Greg Mapson*
For the best part of 50 years, NATO has maintained a standing force of mine countermeasure vessels at the ready to respond...
OPV fleet a force multiplier
By Marcus Hellyer*
Australia can acquire extra maritime capability quickly and affordably while promoting local industry and the government’s continuous naval shipbuilding plan.
My new ASPI...
N-subs and strategic stability in Indo-Pacific
By Stephan Frühling*
No other weapon system embodies the menacing, but also out-of-sight, presence of nuclear weapons better than the stealthy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines...
The South Pacific strategic alliance
By Richard Kouyoumdjian Inglis*
Recently the Chilean Navy took control of the former HMAS “Melbourne” and HMAS “Newcastle” and renamed them “Capitán Prat” and “Almirante...
A new risk model for mine counter operations
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By Captain Scott Craig, Royal Australian Navy*
Marine warfare is often the “wicked problem”...
Autonomous systems: warship, torpedo or naval mine?
Naval industries are edging closer to the development of unmanned maritime platforms with lethal autonomous capability—lethal autonomous maritime systems (LAMS). The emergence of LAMS...
Italian carriers with little to carry
She squeezed through the narrow channel at the Maritime Military Arsenal in Taranto, Italy, all 27,000 tons of her. It was May 6, and the Italian aircraft...
Fifth HMAS Sydney commissions at sea
On 18 May, due to the coronavirus restrictions, the new destroyer HMAS Sydney became the first warship to commission at sea.
Previously only the stores carrier...
Japan’s new hypervelocity missile
It travels toward its target faster than five times the speed of sound, making course corrections nearly impossible to track, and carries a “Sea...