US ships: massive workforce needed
To construct the Navy’s planned Golden Fleet, U.S. naval shipbuilders must hire a quarter million people over the next decade, Secretary of the Navy...
A mariners-first principle
Mariners first: rebuilding Australia’s navy for war at sea
By Jennifer Parker*
The Royal Australian Navy’s greatest challenge isn’t introducing nuclear submarines and considerably expanding the...
American supercarrier ‘opens fire’ in Pacific
Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has carried out live-fire exercises in the South China Sea as part of routine operations by the carrier strike...
Lawfulness of US tanker boardings
By Jennifer Parker*
Recent US boardings of oil tankers linked to Venezuela have prompted claims of piracy and illegality under international law. In reality, many...
How the US took a shadow-fleet oil tanker
By Tom Sharpe*
Last week, in the distant waters of the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, the US Coast Guard cutter Munro seized the oil tanker now known...
US-built Saudi frigate launched
The Saudi Ministry of Defense confirmed the launch of HMS Saud, the first Multi-Mission Surface Combatant frigate built in the United States for the...
US Navy pilots’ drone warfare upgrade
Navy pilots have successfully completed training to wield multiple drones from the cockpits of F-35 Lightning II fighter planes using touchscreen tablets, Defense News...
US seizes Russian-flagged oil vessel
US special forces and Coast Guard personnel seized the Russian-flagged oil tanker MV Marinera (formerly MV Bella 1) in the North Atlantic Ocean today....
China’s merchant-military fleet
By Tom Sharpe*
Images have emerged of a Chinese medium-sized cargo ship, docked at Shanghai’s Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard, fitted with a modular electromagnetic catapult for launching...
S Pacific: responsibility not influence
The Southern Seas: A Sphere of Responsibility, Not Influence
By CMDR Paul Pelczar, OAM RAN*
I recall reading Kon-Tiki in my childhood as a great adventure story, oblivious...