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UK defence chief highlights global impact of Royal Navy

The UK’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) has highlighted key contributions made by different types of UK Royal Navy (RN) assets to stability and...
Exercise ‘Digital Talon 3.0’

US 5th Fleet’s newest technology task force runs ‘Digital Talon’ uncrewed systems exercise

US 5th Fleet’s newest technology task force – Task Group 59.1 (TG-59.1) – has conducted the latest iteration of the fleet’s ‘Digital Talon’ maritime...

US, UK carrier strike groups demonstrate NATO presence in North Sea deployments

Two NATO carrier strike groups (CSGs) are currently conducting operations in the North Sea. The deployments demonstrate a level of integrated, multi-national, high-end capability and...
ORCA

UUV Offence and Defence

Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) provide a capability that Western navies must both capitalise on and counter. In the maritime domain, the underwater world is a...
JMSDF training

JMSDF ship visits to UK underline combined commitment to international security

Two Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ships, from the Japan Training Squadron, have visited the UK for port calls. The visits provided the opportunity...
HMS Queen Elizabeth

Which Kind of Intensity?

Western navies are seeking the right balance in training types between simulated, synthetic training that can deliver intensity in terms of asset or firepower...
Suffren class submarines

Silent Running

The increased popularity among navies to own their own submarine fleets are driving new advances in submarine propulsion. If the SEA 1000 submarine programme in...
USS Carl Vinson

‘RIMPAC’ naval presence underlines Indo-Pacific/Euro-Atlantic strategic linkage

The US Navy’s (USN’s) major biennial ‘Rim of the Pacific’ (‘RIMPAC’) exercise got underway off Hawaii on 27 June, with the exercise’s routine multinational...
Torpedo first for Royal Air Force Poseidon sub-hunter

UK, French, Norwegian MPAs combine to hunt reported Russian submarine

Maritime patrol aircraft (MPAs) from the United Kingdom, France, and Norway have been working together to prosecute a suspected Russian submarine target, in a...
USS Emory S Land

USN submarine tender visit to RAN base demonstrates AUKUS implementation

The US submarine tender USS Emory S Land arrived in Darwin, northern Australia on 28 May for a port visit. The visit, hosted at...

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