Navy International 

*Ship to shoreline: EU NAVFOR expands its anti-piracy mission
In an effort to seize and maintain the initiative in the continuing campaign against maritime piracy off the Horn of Africa (HoA), the EU's ...
26-Apr-2012
*India's 20/20 vision: Coastguard joins the premier league
Created in interim form in February 1977 and then formally established as an armed service in August 1978, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) commenced ...
26-Apr-2012
Navy League 2012: USCG cutter heading to Arctic, likely at other missions' expense
The US Coast Guard (USCG) plans to send a National Security Cutter (NSC) to the Arctic and expects its missions in that area to continually...
17-Apr-2012
*Sea 1000: Australia's Future Submarine is slow to surface
Delays in government guidance and funding for the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN's) Future Submarine programme are now focusing attention on how long the country's ...
13-Apr-2012
*Nigerian Navy to acquire two Chinese OPVs
In an unexpected development, the Nigerian Navy (NN) has announced that President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the acquisition from China of two new-build 95 ...
10-Apr-2012
*Paradigm shift: the air-sea battle
Compared to the speed with which tactical lessons have been learned and applied during the US-led land campaigns of the past 10 years, the ...
28-Mar-2012
*Making connections: US marines return to the high seas
Although the expression 'seabasing' was not officially codified as a verb in US doctrine until 2006, the genesis of the Department of the Navy's ...
27-Mar-2012
*New order: Type 45 destroyer takes its place on the front line
Thirty years after Argentine landings in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) sparked a short but intense conflict that stretched the UK Royal Navy (RN) to...
26-Mar-2012
*Neighbourhood watch: South Africa's continental role expands
With neighbouring states unwilling or unable to contribute much to the regional maritime security effort, South Africa is having to take on a greater ...
01-Mar-2012
*A unified approach: how naval agility helped win in Libya
From the moment the first shots were fired in anger on 19 March 2011, the multinational naval force that gathered off Libya - tasked ...
01-Mar-2012
*Inflatable capability: Small boats show what they are made of
The insurrections that spread like wildfire across north Africa in 2011 led to a surge in the number of people attempting to flee to ...
29-Feb-2012
*Policing the waves
In 1999, a study conducted by the Malaysian government found that the organisational structure then in place to provide coastguard-type services in the country's ...
29-Dec-2011
*Versatile 'Romeo' takes a bow
Conceived as the fulcrum of the US Navy's (USN's) Helicopter Master Plan - a strategy to rationalise rotary-wing aviation from seven legacy types to ...
28-Dec-2011
*Amphibious ambitions: expanding Australia's naval expectations
In the wake of well-publicised availability issues, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is readying itself for new platforms that will put it in the ...
22-Dec-2011
*West African navies tackle security challenges head on
With political turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa continuing throughout most of 2011, and spilling over into civil war in at least ...
02-Dec-2011
*Radar revolution: the solid state era
Developments in the coastal surveillance market over the past decade have been driven by the emergence of asymmetric threats that have placed increasing demands ...
28-Nov-2011
*Strategic assets: deterrent plans confront cost challenges
As the maritime leg of the US government's nuclear triad (alongside land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic bombers), the US Navy's (USN's) Ohio-class nuclear-powered ...
24-Nov-2011
*Balancing act: aggressive focus yields smart trade-offs
With the harsh realities of the global economic crisis coming home to roost, the US Navy (USN) is facing a shipbuilding challenge it hasn't ...
28-Oct-2011
*Warsaw six increase their standing in NATO circle
Since the Warsaw Treaty Organisation of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance - more commonly known as the Warsaw Pact - was disbanded in 1991, ...
24-Oct-2011
*Ducking and diving: combat swimmers on the move
Since the Italian Navy successfully pioneered the technology in successful missions to sink enemy ships at anchor in the first and second world wars, ...
20-Oct-2011
*Underwater aspirations break the surface in SE Asia
With its growing economic clout and geo-strategic importance, the same the Asia Pacific region is projected to become the world's largest naval submarine market ...
07-Oct-2011
*Rising star: upgrades fuel Poseidon's ascent
Production models of the US Navy's (USN's) latest anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW) and maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) are poised to begin operational ...
29-Sep-2011
*New Avengers: USN's MCM fleet in need of vital upgrades
Sea mines have sunk or damaged 15 US Navy (USN) ships since the end of the Second World War, four times as many as ...
29-Sep-2011
*Aussie rules: air warfare destroyers push boundaries
In December 2014 the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is due to take delivery of the first of its three new Hobart-class Air Warfare Destroyers...
26-Sep-2011
Cover feature addendum: Frazer-Nash supports systems engineering process for MHPC
Engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash was in September 2009 appointed by the MoD to provide systems engineering support for the projected MHPC programme. Working directly for...
08-Sep-2011
*Afloat and ashore: Aegis BMD follows an adaptive course
In March, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) turned a new page in the story of ballistic missile defence (BMD) when it became...
05-Sep-2011
*European fleets respond to ballistic missile threats
The gulf in sea-based ballistic missile defence (BMD) capability between the navies of NATO's European member states and the US Navy (USN) was brought...
31-Aug-2011
*Virtual aggression: winning the war against cyber soldiers
US Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) achieved full operational capability in October 2010 and the Department of Defense (DoD) issued its strategy for cyberspace operations in ...
26-Aug-2011
*Standing off a step at a time
One UK Royal Navy (RN) capability that emerged essentially unscathed from last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) was mine countermeasures (MCM). "It ...
25-Aug-2011
*Italian forces contribute to Libyan effort
The Italian Navy (Marina Militare) has been engaged in operations off Libya since February, providing ships and aircraft to evacuate foreign citizens from the ...
27-Jul-2011
*MILGEM charts a course for Turkey's naval sector plan
In early November 2010 TCG Heybeliada , the prototype of a new class of MILGEM corvette, began sea trials from the Istanbul Naval Shipyard...
06-Jul-2011
*Europe takes the strain on Operation 'Unified Protector'
A month after anti-government protests in Libya boiled over into civil war, the UN Security Council passed a resolution on 17 March authorising member ...
01-Jul-2011
*Thinking outside the box
It was in 1992, with the publication of the US Navy's post-Cold War doctrine document '...From the Sea' that the term 'littoral' began to ...
23-Jun-2011
*Reading the signs across ocean and atmosphere
Knowledge of the environment, and the ability to accurately predict weather and oceanographic conditions, is not only critical to the success of military operations ...
02-Jun-2011
*Capital assets: admission fees curb carrier strike club
By the end of the Second World War the aircraft carrier had become firmly established as the pre-eminent naval power-projection asset. However, for much ...
18-May-2011