Australia donates hydrographic vessel
The Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka handed over a Kongsberg EM2042 shallow water multi-beam echo sounder to the Sri Lanka Navy Hydrographic Service...
Taiwan opts for satellite back-up
By Jane Rickards*
Taiwan is paying attention to seabed risks. It’s suffered undersea cable breaks and it has noted deliberate attacks on such communications lines...
Australia and PNG prepare defence treaty
A half-century after gaining independence from Australia, the Pacific island state of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australia are negotiating what the two sides...
Collision captain relieved of command
The U.S. Navy has relieved Captain Dave Snowden of his command of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) following a loss...
UK ships ‘charging at’ submarines
HMS Somerset has been honing its anti-submarine warfare skills in the Norwegian fjords, charging at allied submarines at full speed as part of Exercise...
Passing of China’s first nuclear submarine designer
Huang Xuhua, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, recipient of the Medal of the Republic, and chief designer of China's first-generation nuclear...
ANI at 50: Australia’s maritime trade
From the Davy Jones’s Locker
The fourth in the series of ‘Davy Jones’s Locker’ articles is from the fourth edition of the Journal of the...
The case for UK’s nuclear naval upgrade
In this article, we counter some of the arguments frequently presented by those campaigning for the UK to abandon its nuclear deterrent, Navy Lookout...
Big shipyard plan for uncrewed vessels
Off the back of a $600 million Series C funding round, Saronic, the Texas-based defense startup company, announced this month it plans to build...
Whyalla: strategic steel for ships and defence
By David Uren*
Australia has been losing so many sovereign manufacturing capabilities over the past two decades that it is hard to know where to...