Austal delivers 15th Guardian Class patrol boat
Austal Australia has delivered the 15th Guardian-class Patrol Boat (GCPB) to the Australian Department of Defence.
The vessel, Te Kukupa II, was then gifted by...
RAN, RNZN help rescue SW Pacific mariners
In three incidents the RAN and the RNZAF played leading roles in rescuing mariners in the SW Pacific.
In the first incident on 21 May,...
RN looks a commercial tankers to refuel
The Royal Navy has announced that they have been exploring the idea of NATO naval vessels using commercial tankers to supply fuel to warships...
RN retires two Hunter submarines
The Royal Navy’s nuclear-powered submarines HMS Talent and HMS Trenchant were decommissioned at Devonport Naval Base on 20 May, Naval Today reports.
HMS Trenchant’s...
Type 26 frigate’s capability
The Type 26 Frigate has the potential to be one of the most capable warships the Royal Navy has owned in decades but only...
Chinese naval task group bound for Gulf of Aden
On 18 May a PLA-N task group sailed from Zhoushan for a deployment to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somali. It...
Australia joins US Exercise Pacific Partnership 2022
Members of the Australian Defence Force are embarked in the US Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy to take part in Exercise Pacific...
China’s militarisation of its commercial fleet
Over the many years of reporting maritime news, the idea that China could militarize its commercial maritime fleet has been dismissed by most of...
US Navy to lose if ship building stalled
The U.S. Navy doesn’t want to promise to buy too many ships in the next five years, in case it can’t follow through due...
US Navy opposed to ship-launched N-weapons
The U.S. Navy remains opposed to buying ship-launched nuclear weapons, even though some in the Pentagon have pushed back, Defense News reports.
Chief of Naval...