Four nations in first maritime cooperative activity
Australia, Japan, the Philippines and the United States conducted the first multilateral maritime cooperative activity on 7 April, demonstrating a collective commitment to promote...
RNZAF Poseidon Deploys to Japan
On 10 April the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) announced it would will for the first time deploy a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft...
British Light Cruisers
British Light Cruisers. Town, Colony and Later Classes. ShipCraft 33. By Les Brown. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2024. ISBN 978-1-3990-3753-2
Reviewed by David Hobbs
Les Brown has...
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power. By Nicholas A. Lambert. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2023. ISBN 9781612511580
Reviewed by...
Maldives using drones to monitor EEZ
The Maldives government has introduced Turkish-built Bayraktar TB2 drones into service while standing up a new Air Corps tasked with monitoring the island nation’s...
Where will RAN be in 2045?
Now that the Federal Government has come up with another new plan for the Royal Australian Navy, this might be a good opportunity to...
UK warship flies battle flag
HMS Richmond spent nearly six weeks’ in the line of fire around the Bab-al-Mandeb Strait and Gulf of Aden, where merchant shipping has come...
Indonesia closer to French sub deal
France has been offering Scorpene for years. On February 10, 2022, Naval Group and Indonesian state-owned shipbuilder, PT PAL Indonesia, signed an MoU on...
Japan set to join AUKUS Pillar II
Japan is set to participate in the second pillar of the AUKUS pact with Australia, the United Kingdom and United States in the first...
US shipbuilding years behind
Several of the U.S. Navy’s top shipbuilding programs are running one year to three years behind schedule, as the service and the industrial base...