US Department of War : An unnamed U.S. Navy submarine has sunk the Iranian warship IRIS Dena with a torpedo in international waters off the southern coast of Sri Lanka as part of Operation Epic Fury. United States Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth did not name the frigate during today’s (Wednesday’s) Pentagon briefing, but earlier […]
Military historian Tom Lewis writes from his book “Australian Coastal Wars”: Numbers tell the story of Australia’s northern war The anniversary of the first air raid on Australia occurs every year on 19 February. The numbers associated with the 1942 attack – and beyond – give some measure of the huge extent to which northern […]
DEFENCE CONNECT : 27 October 2025 : Robert Dougherty The United States military has confirmed the loss of a MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter and a F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet in the South China Sea. Both incidents occurred separately on October 26 with the US Navy helicopter going down during routine operations and the jet lost […]
Defence Australia : Exercise Penguin between Australia and Brunei
ABC News : China’s People’s Liberation Army says it followed and warned Australian navy ship HMAS Brisbane and a Canadian ship as they sailed the Taiwan Strait. The PLA accused the Australian and Canadian vessels of provocation and “causing trouble” by sailing the waterway. HMAS Brisbane participated in freedom of navigation exercises with Canada, the […]
Defence Australia : Waves of Steel, Skies of Fire 🔥 During Exercise Alon 2025, Defence personnel joined forces with Armed Forces of the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea to conduct multi-domain maritime strike live fire serials. The serials brought together the Philippine Navy’s guided-missile frigate BRP Jose Rizal, the Royal Australian Navy Hobart-class guided-missile […]
Helping to reinforce Philippines sovereignty.
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 […]
