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...
USN and RN commit to AI and energy weapons
The U.S. Navy’s acquisition chief announced the establishment of the London Tech Bridge—the U.S. Navy’s first such innovation centre outside the United States, ukdj...
Business as usual in a time of upheaval
By Marcus Hellyer
The big defence news in Australia this year was in the 2020 defence strategic updatereleased on 1 July. The update and its accompanying...
The Quad sharpens its edges
By Brahma Chellaney*
The Quad, a loose strategic coalition of the Indo-Pacific region’s four leading democracies, is rapidly solidifying this year in response to China’s...
Virtual tour of the Garden Island tunnels
Zoom Presentation: Tuesday 20 th October 2020
This presentation by the Naval Historical Society will address the construction and circumstances which led to the construction...