ADV Reliant on a Pacific mission
Australia’s Pacific Support Vessel Australian Defence Vessel (ADV) Reliant has departed Brisbane on its first deployment of 2025. Further enhancing Australia’s partnership with the...
Mogami: inside the contender for frigate contract
During a pre-Christmas visit to Japan, a small group of Australian journalists were given unprecedented access to one of two contenders for SEA 3000...
Navies and the vulnerability of maritime trade
By William Freer and Charlotte Kleberg*
Over the past year, sustained targeting of commercial shipping in the Red Sea – a vital maritime corridor –...
Finland seizes suspect Russian oil ship
Authorities from Finland have seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power...
Spanish firm buys UK shipyard
The British arm of Spanish state-owned shipbuilder Navantia will acquire the UK shipyard Harland & Wolff in a rescue deal that Navantia says will...
Border Force to get two Evolved Class vessels
Austal has been awarded a $137.02 million (~$85 million USD) contract modification to build two additional Evolved Cape-class Patrol Boats (ECCPB) for the Australian...
Uncrewed vessels: progress and potential
By Keirin Joyce*
Australia is doing well in developing uncrewed naval vessels. Now it needs to redouble efforts to get them into service faster. Application...
US pilots shot down by friendly fire
Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot down Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the U.S military said, marking the...
Big Chinese Arctic oil find
The Chinese rig Cosl Prospector has discovered up to 52 million barrels of oil in an appraisal well in Norwegian Arctic waters, the Barents...
UK Defence chief: stiffening resolve
This is the text of the annual RUSI lecture given by UK Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin this month:
Perhaps unsurprisingly after...