Detailed description of Battle of Coral Sea
A detailed description of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942) has been published on the Royal Australian Navy website. It...
Halves of HMAS Arafura come together
Just shy of 18 months after the start of construction and one year since the official keel-laying ceremony for the Navy’s new first-of-class offshore patrol vessel, the two...
Predictable strategy, unpredictable operations
By Carlyle A. Thayer
The U.S Navy. vessel, USS Bunker Hill conducted two FONOPs on April 28th and 29th in the Paracel and Spratly Islands, respectively. How...
Battle of the Coral Sea remembered
Seventy-eight years ago this week was the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Three navies, four aircraft carriers, 255 aircraft and 76 ships in a...
US ship incident near Paracels
Chinese authorities said they sortied ships and aircraft to “track, monitor, verify, identify and expel” a U.S. warship from the Paracel Island chain in...
White Ensign to fly over Sydney memorial
The Chief of Navy, VADM Mike Noonan, has given permission for the Australian White Ensign to flys over the HMAS Sydney Memorial in Geraldton.
The...
US selects Italian design for frigates
By David B Larter of Defense News
The U.S. Navy’s newest surface combatant has Italian heritage, the Navy has announced Thursday.
In a major win for...
$350 million for six new patrol boats during COVID-19
Six new patrol boats will be built under a fast-tracked $350 million Defence project that aims tosecure hundreds of jobs during the COVID-19...
Has Attack Class cost gone up? Part 2
By Marcus Hellyer*
In the first part of this series, we saw that by late 2015, before the Defence Department had received industry responses in the competitive...
RAN needs support ship at Manus
Commentary on equipping the Australian Defence Force tends to focus on high-end combat capabilities such as frigates, fighter aircraft and armoured vehicles. Much less...