Time to end China’s Darwin lease
By Peter Jennings*
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has asked his department ‘to come back with some advice’ about the future of the 99-year lease by...
The build process for our new submarines is disastrous
By Dr Tom Lewis*
Of all of the possible solutions to Australia's need for submarines, a worse one could not have been made than the...
Australia’s need for guided missiles
By Marcus Hellyer*
Last year’s war between Azerbaijan and Armenia was short, sharp and decisive. By effectively employing precision guided weapons, the former rapidly forced...
Huge fleet heads out from UK
Final preparations have been made as HMS Queen Elizabeth gets ready to sail on her 26,000 nautical mile maiden deployment on May 1, Forces Net reports.
The £3.2bn aircraft carrier...
Taiwan’s new coast guard flagship
Taiwan commissioned into service a new coast guard flagship on Thursday to help counter China’s “grey zone” war tactics against the island, Reuters reports.
Taiwan’s...
RN’s South Atlantic environmental mission
HMS Forth has taken bomb disposal specialists to South Georgia as part of a mission to protect the island's wildlife, Forces Net reports.
The patrol...
53 women marines’ historic graduation
Dozens of new female Marines completed the grueling final exercise required of recruits in boot camp this week, setting them up to become the...
Submarine loss: more co-operation needed
Time tragically ran out for the crew of Indonesia’s submarine KRI Nanggala-402. When the Indonesian Navy lost contact with the boat conducting a torpedo...
Baltic’s greater strategic importance
By Sebastian Bruns and Julian Pawlak*
“The Baltic Sea has grown to a never-seen strategic significance in the past years.” This is how Vice Admiral...
Submarine loss: ‘No one can fight nature”
With incredible candour, Indonesian navy first petty officer Setyo Wawan opened up on national television about the toll his job placed on his family.
“The...