Two nuclear submarines in UK port
Two nuclear-powered attack submarines came in to HM Naval Base Clyde on Friday, a United States Navy Virginia-class boat arriving in the morning and...
New magnetism submarine detection method
Finding a submarine beneath the ocean is one of the more difficult surveillance tasks in modern warfare. Sonar and sonobuoys can listen for underwater...
New shipyard for big Virginia-class parts
Anduril is establishing a new shipyard to manufacture parts for Virginia-class submarines in Baltimore County, Md., the company and the White Houseannounced, Breaking Defense...
Mahan. The Life of Maritime Strategy’s Greatest Revolutionary
Mahan. The Life of Maritime Strategy’s Greatest Revolutionary. By David A Smith. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2026
Reviewed by Tim Coyle
Visionaries gestate slowly. Certainly, brilliance...
South China Sea reefs dying
By Mohd Yunus*
On 15 August 2026, China published an ecological assessment of the South China Sea(Opens in new window) stating that the coral cover...
Throttling Taiwan without a shot fired
By Christopher Eylward*
An armed naval blockade is categorised as an act of war under the United Nations Charter(Opens in new window), establishing a clear...
30 ships in exercise off Scotland
Medium-calibre guns will be fired at Cape Wrath as part of a multinational military exercise involving more than 30 ships and aircraft. Exercise Strike...
Who will repair sabotaged cables?
In June 2023, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, raised the prospect via the messaging app Telegram of ‘destroying our enemies’ ocean-floor...
UK to build submarine dry docks
Chancellor John Healey will announce today that, subject to a commercial competition, the floating dry docks required for RN nuclear submarine maintenance at Faslane...
Firepower: Lessons from WWII seminar
The Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company (RAAHC) is holding the fourth and final seminar in the Firepower: Lesson from World War II Seminar Series,...