US cruisers to go in five years
USS Vicksburg (CG-69) is in the middle of a $200 million repair period meant to keep the guided-missile cruiser in the fleet well into...
Headstone for HMAS Brisbane veteran
Mark Fleming, the Founder & Coordinator of the Naval Graves Project has extended an invitation from the Naval Graves Project to all those interested in...
China’s first amphibious assault ship operational
In April the PLA-N's first Type-075 amphibious assault ship, the Hainan became operational.
This was China's first independently-built landing helicopter dock ship. It has the...
Awful truth: Russia could win this
The awful truth is dawning: Putin may win in Ukraine. The result would be catastrophe, Simon Tisdall writes in the Guardian.
The contrast was startling....
Viet-Russian exercises in the offing?
By Carl Thayer*
On April 19, RIA Nosvosti filed a dispatch from Vladivostok quoting the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO): “For the first...
China’s Pacific ‘friendship’ has strategic aim
By Anne-Marie Brady*
In the Xi Jinping era, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (commonly known as the Friendship Association, or Youxie)...
PLA-N replenishment ship training video
Video has been released of the PLA Navy’s replenishment ship Chaganhu and the guided-missile destroyer Changsha conducting stern replenishment. View it here.
Solomons can be won back
By Peter Jennings*
China’s treaty on security cooperation with Solomon Islands has two key purposes. First, it helps to extend the military reach of the...
Guam sub force increased to five
The US Navy now has five submarines homeported in Guam — up from two the service had based there as of November 2021, the...
80th anniversary of St Nazaire
Sailors and Royal Marines paid their respects to the ultimate commando raid in Falmouth – 80 years after the attackers sailed from the Cornish...