Exercise Talisman Sabre windup
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Strong warning from the Pentagon re AUKUS
AUKUS Forum : The Trump administration’s Pentagon has issued its strongest warning yet: Australia must significantly boost its defence budget or risk being unable to both defend itself and fulfill its commitments under AUKUS. Senior US defence figures appear increasingly concerned that a failure by Australia to spend more on defence could have a bearing on the […]
Exercise Talisman Sabre – HMS Prince of Wales
Defence Australia : HMS Prince of Wales docks in Darwin. The Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, arrived in Darwin, NT, as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025. HMS Prince of Wales features an expansive flight deck measuring 70 metres in width, and 280 metres in length – equivalent to the area of three […]
UK RFA Service in a Pickle
RFA Stirling Castle of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary has now become HMS Stirling Castle of the Royal Navy Earlier this week RFA Stirling Castle, which belonged to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), became HMS Stirling Castle of the Royal Navy. This is not the first time this has happened in the two services’ history, but it’s […]
INS Tamal Commissions in Russia
Indian Navy’s last foreign-built warship joins the fleet Laid down in 2012, INS Tamal, commissioned on July 1, 2025, at the Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad, Russia, marks a historic milestone as the last foreign-built warship to join the Indian Navy. This event signifies the end of a two-decade era of major warship imports from Russia […]
Japan’s government pushes hard to woo Aussies with advanced frigate
Colin Clarke; Breaking Defense Indo Pacific 3rd July 2025: “We the Japanese government will guarantee that the whole project, and all the contracts will go smoothly so that there will not be any delay to the project,” Osamu Nishiwaki, a top official at Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA), told reporters. NAGASAKI — Japan isn’t […]
Carrier Strike Group 25 sails towards Australia for the largest-ever Exercise Talisman Sabre
Carrier Strike Group 25 has departed Singapore and is heading south towards Australia as it continues its eight-month deployment. CSG25 will participate in the eleventh edition of the large-scale Australian-led multinational exercise called Exercise Talisman Sabre, which involves significant US forces. It comes after F-35B Lightning jets from 617 Squadron and 809 Naval Air Squadron […]
Operation Midnight Hammer
Source Task and Purpose Newsletter – Jeff Schogol updated Jun 22, 2025 9:12 AM EDT. Pentagon releases details of ‘Midnight Hammer’ strikes against Iran B-2 bombers were among 125 aircraft involved in strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities as part of “Operation Midnight Hammer.” B-2 Spirit bombers dropped a total of 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, […]
American aircraft carriers converging on Iran
The United States is building up its military presence near Iran as tensions with Israel continue to rise, with multiple carrier strike groups and a growing array of supporting assets converging in the region. The USS Nimitz, one of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, is now en route from the South China Sea to the […]
RN Strike Group exercise with Indian Navy
Indian Navy June 14, 2025 The British Carrier Strike Group led by the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales conducted a passage exercise with units of the Indian Navy during 9-10 June in the Arabia Sea. The multi-faceted naval exercise included unified control of integral helicopters, tactical manoeuvres, coordinated anti-submarine ops and professional exchange of […]