The RAN in the Gulf
Commencing on 9 November, the Australian Naval History podcast series will release four episodes of the RAN in the Gulf on successive Mondays. Professor...
US and China race for naval dominance
The race between
China and the United States to develop a more capable navy is expected to further intensify, with Washington planning to equip its...
UK Cold War monster destroyer retired
Cold War military history is full of “might-have-beens,” with canceled projects ranging from nuclear-reactor-juggling tracked mecha-robots, to electron guns that would generate invisible radar-absorbing...
Australian Malabar role helps Indian defence
By Prakash Gopal
The inclusion of Australia in the 2020 Exercise Malabarsignals India’s resolve to defend its interests in the region.
Lying at the south-eastern extremity...
US boosts Coast Guard presence
The U.S. national security adviser said on Friday the U.S Coast Guard was basing Enhanced Response Cutters in the western Pacific for maritime security...
Cost advantage of unmanned vessels
With the Pentagon pitching a future naval force design that calls for as many as 240 unmanned and optionally manned ships on the surface...
Japanese F35As train with USS America
Land-based Japanese F-35As trained alongside the U.S. Navy’s first-in-class amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) in the western Pacific during “advanced combined operations” earlier...
Australia to join Malabar exercise
Australia will join the India-led Malabar 2020 naval exercise next month, operating along with the U.S. and Japan in an exercise meant to send...
Gone today, hair tomorrow?
Sailors looking back fondly on those hirsute days of yesteryear when they could grow beards without the chief going ballistic have been given the...
Chagos: a year since UK was ordered out
By Nilanthi Samaranayake*
November 2020 will mark the one-year anniversary when the United Kingdom should have left the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, as...