Lima Charlie: What is the future of the Royal Navy’s anti-ship capabilities? Will the loss of Russia’s flagship Moskva alter how the UK equips its ships for naval combat? HMS Montrose flexing her warfighting muscle with the successful firing of a Harpoon missile. Photo: MOD Throughout the history of naval warfare, one of the most […]
Rear Admiral Geoffrey James Alexander Bayliss, AM, RAN Rtd RADM Geoffrey Bayliss was born in 1937 in the remote highlands of Burma and attended Brisbane Boys College. Following National Service as an infantry soldier in the Australian Army, he joined the RAN in Feb 1958 as an undergraduate medical officer at the University of Queensland. […]
And We Think We Have Problems!!! Canadian national security concerns delay court battle over New Zealand warship upgrades The second of the country’s two naval frigates is due to leave Canada, eight years after an upgrade project began. Te Kaha returned to New Zealand at the end of 2020. The costs to upgrade the ship Te […]
During INDO PACIFIC 2022 several contenders emerged for the Royal Australian Navy’s requirement for new Joint Support Ships (JSS). Under project SEA2200, Australia will domestically build two multipurpose auxiliary vessels, able to perform both sealift and replenishment operations, to replace HMAS Choules. HMAS Choules at Fleet Base East in Sydney, the week of Indo Pacific […]
Immediate Need to Decomplicate Acquisition of Six Submarines under Project 75(I) Program INS Kalvari – First of the indigernous build Type 75 Indian Navy’s 30-year-old plan to induct 24 submarines has faced enough hurdles and delays along its run-up so far. With the six submarines under Project 75 nearing completion, the follow-on contract for the […]
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine hasreleased a dramatic video showing one of its TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) striking two assault boats of the Russian Navy. According to the Ukrainian MoD, the two vessels were Raptor-class assault boats. They were struck in the vicinity of the now famous “Snake Island” (Zmiinyi Island), located roughly […]
The Russian Navy has a massive numerical advantage over their Ukrainian foe. Yet they have lost 5 vessels, some major and some minor. All are significant. The Russian Navy, on paper one of the most powerful on the planet, has lost 4 or 5 vessels to enemy action. In a land war, against a country […]
Collins Class fleet to receive tech upgrade The submarines are set to be upgraded with an advanced optronics system under a new multi-million-dollar Commonwealth government investment. Minister for Defence Peter Dutton has announced a $381 million commitment to upgrade the Royal Australian Navy’s Collins Class submarine fleet with an advanced optronics system, designed to improve […]
In 2009, Australia’s government decided that it would replace eight Anzac-class frigates with nine ships optimised for antisubmarine warfare (ASW). There was no justification in the Royal Australian Navy capstone doctrine for acquiring and optimising a frigate for ASW, which it regarded as among the most difficult of naval operations to be conducted and most […]
For the first time, China’s navy has appointed a female officer as the commanding officer of one of its surface combatants. In time for the PLA Navy’s 73rd anniversary, state media announced that Wei Huixiao has been named the CO of the Shaoxing, a brand new Type 052D class destroyer. It is the first time […]
