China boosts N-subs shipyard capacity
As China pushes to become a blue-water power, nuclear-powered submarines are critically important to Beijing’s plan. Historically the Chinese Navy’s (PLAN) nuclear-powered submarine fleet...
190 US ships have covid cases
More than 190 U.S. Navy ships have suffered a COVID-19 outbreak this year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said in a message...
P8 in show-of-force flight
A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has been spotted flying a mission from Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa...
Struggle to keep US fleet up to spec
The U.S. Navy’s aging surface fleet is getting harder to maintain, and overall is showing declining health in several key areas, such as its...
Bangladesh’s new patrol boats
In a departure from conventional shipbuilding procedures, Bangladesh’s Khulna Shipyard Limited (KSL) has announced a “steel-cutting ceremony” for the navy’s second batch of five...
US’s drone subs and buoys in the Arctic
The U.S. Navy has awarded the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution a contract worth more than $12 million to develop unmanned undersea vehicles and buoys,...
China military watch: sea-based missiles
By Malcolm Davis and Charlie Lyons Jones*
On 15 September, China successfully launched the Long March-11 solid propellant launch vehicle off a merchant vessel in the Yellow...
The future of China’s n-powered subs force
By Adam Ni*
China finally achieved an operational underwater nuclear capability in recent years, almost six decades after it first launched its nuclear-powered ballistic missile...
Report on two types of amphibious ships
This report discusses two types of amphibious ships being procured for the Navy: LPD-17 Flight II class amphibious ships and LHA-type amphibious assault ships....
US Navy shows air power in Indo-Pacific
U.S. Navy aircraft and ships with the Reagan Carrier Strike Group conducted an air power demonstration over the Philippine Sea Tuesday that came hard...