Is now the time for JAUKUS?
The Quad leaders meeting was a good opportunity for the US and Australia to discreetly sound out the possibilities of Japan joining the AUKUS...
Swedes ask for bigger US Baltic presence
Swedish officials are requesting a larger U.S. naval presence in the Baltic Sea as part of the ongoing diplomatic push for Sweden and Finland...
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...
Ukraine: US carrier in Naples
A U.S. aircraft carrier visited the southern Italian city of Naples for only the second time in six years as the military continues its...
Relief vessel not up to the task
By Bob Moyse
In terms of scale, the recently announced Pacific support vessel, ADV Reliant, is chicken feed compared to the Royal Australian Navy’s submarine...