China top focus of US defence planning
Earlier this month the US Congressional Research Service released a 81-page report titled China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for...
First US nuclear submarine maintenance in Australia
In a historic first, RAN personnel will work alongside with their US counterparts to conduct maintenance on USS Hawaii (SSN 776) in Australia as...
Ice Panda: China’s hybrid Antarctic activity
A new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute examines the implications of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) hybrid activity in Antarctica, and...
Exercise Pacific Dragon 24 held off Hawaii
Allied navies joined the US Navy and the US Missile Defense Agency to conduct the Pacific Dragon 2024(PD24) ballistic missile defence exercise from 29...
Crew shortage hits support ships
Military Sealift Command has drafted a plan to remove the crews from 17 Navy support ships due to a lack of qualified mariners to...
$850m for Australia to make strike missiles
Australia will contribute $850 million in partnership with Kongsberg Defence Australia to manufacture and service missiles at Williamtown near Newcastle. The project involves the...
Improving interoperability
By Jennifer Parker*
The rise of minilaterals, quadrilaterals, and other groupings in the Indo-Pacific have become increasingly important to the regional security architecture. However, a...
Red Sea experience is changing warfare education
During his warship’s recent deployment to the Middle East, a guided-missile destroyer commander fired off some five terabytes of data about his crew’s operations...
New sophisticated Chinese boat
A Chinese shipyard in Wuhan has launched a submarine which is likely to be the country's most advanced non-nuclear type. The new boat is...
WWI vessel found off Scotland
A wreck discovered off the Aberdeenshire coast is believed to be a lost Royal Navy warship sunk by a torpedo during World War One....