US Marines give incentive to re-enlistees
The US Marine Corps issued offers of up to $100,000 (Oct 2020) in its quest to get its former pilots to come back into...
Ceremonial sword presented to HMAS Moreton
When retired Royal Australian Navy Officer, and now the Reverend Ian McGilvray, decided to present his ceremonial sword back the Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Moreton willingly...
US Navy’s covid strategy cuts port calls
The US Navy will continue its new COVID-era practice of longer deployments with fewer port calls, as leaders feel they have found a difficult...
Chief of Navy launches the RAS AI Strategy 2040
On 6 October Vice Admiral Michael Noonan launched the Navy’s Remote and Autonomous System & Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2040. The following day he gave the keynote...
P8 in show-of-force flight
A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has been spotted flying a mission from Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa...
Swapping academia for naval career
With a doctorate in mechanical engineering and a specialisation in how fluids move around different materials, Sub Lieutenant Ninan Mathew came well-credentialed for a...
Struggle to keep US fleet up to spec
The U.S. Navy’s aging surface fleet is getting harder to maintain, and overall is showing declining health in several key areas, such as its...
Bangladesh’s new patrol boats
In a departure from conventional shipbuilding procedures, Bangladesh’s Khulna Shipyard Limited (KSL) has announced a “steel-cutting ceremony” for the navy’s second batch of five...
US’s drone subs and buoys in the Arctic
The U.S. Navy has awarded the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution a contract worth more than $12 million to develop unmanned undersea vehicles and buoys,...
China military watch: sea-based missiles
By Malcolm Davis and Charlie Lyons Jones*
On 15 September, China successfully launched the Long March-11 solid propellant launch vehicle off a merchant vessel in the Yellow...