Navy International 

*Esri UK pools data to counter the piracy threat
Geographic information systems (GIS) specialist Esri UK is exploring ways of improving the integration of multiple sources of information and data into a location-based ...
06-Mar-2012
*Arleigh-Burke gets HED start in fuel efficiency race
The US Navy (USN) is preparing to install a hybrid electric drive (HED) proof of concept (POC) system in an Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA ...
06-Feb-2012
*MTU diesels boost Colombian Navy frigates
The installation of new prime movers in the Colombian Navy's Almirante Padilla-class frigates will increase the time between engine overhauls by a factor of ...
28-Oct-2011
*DARPA moves ahead with LRASM demonstration
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control a USD157.7 million contract for the demonstration phase of...
08-Dec-2010
India stalls over maritime security overhaul
Two years after 10 Islamist gunmen arrived by sea to kill 166 people in India's financial capital Mumbai, the country has made only incremental ...
02-Dec-2010
*Harbour surveillance and protection trial suggests no one size fits all
Maritime security has assumed an ever greater importance in recent years, as government agencies and commercial entities alike have come to recognise the threat ...
21-Dec-2009
NASSCO looks set to build more T-AKE ships for USN
General Dynamics' National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) is to build five more Lewis and Clark-class replenishment ships for the US Navy (USN) in a...
28-Aug-2007
Thales Australia denies Bushmaster links with USMC
Thales Australia has denied media reports that it is on the brink of securing a contract to supply the Australian Bushmaster Infantry Mobility Vehicle ...
05-Jul-2007
*NATO's Exercise 'Destined Glory/Loyal Midas 05' takes place off Sardinia
The NATO exercise 'Destined Glory/Loyal Midas 05' took place off the coast of Sardinia from 29 September to 14 October 2005. The exercise was used...
25-Oct-2005
*'Loyal Mariner 05' sets new test for NRF
Ships, aircraft and personnel from 19 NATO nations have participated in Exercise 'Loyal Mariner 05', a three-week exercise intended to provide interoperability, combat readiness and...
11-May-2005
*Modern navies: a force for good
Australia Vice Admiral Chris A Ritchie Chief of Navy, Royal Australian Navy It is my pleasure to contribute my views about the role of ...
18-Mar-2005
*Green issues loom larger in future
Navies and defence research establishments are engaged in a number of at-sea tests and study projects concerning the potentially harmful impact of active sonars on...
15-Oct-2004
*Elusive shipboard UAV finally nears operational capability
In September 2004, Northrop Grumman's RQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is expected to start sea trials aboard HSV Swift, a high-speed catamaran ferry...
23-Aug-2004
*The art of falconry
FR Aviation (FRA), based at Bournemouth International Airport on the south coast of England, was formed in January 1985 from the Airfield Division of Flight...
23-Jul-2004
*Sailing in new waters
The continuing contraction and reorientation of Western navies is resulting in the increasing availability of modern, well-maintained surface ships and submarines, often at "bargain" prices,...
23-Jul-2004
Warming up with Joint Winter
Exercise 'Joint Winter 2004' - a Norwegian-led exercise - which ended on 24 March 2004, was the largest Winter amphibious exercise involving the UK's Amphibious...
26-Mar-2004
UK looks to develop sea-basing concept
The UK has begun to draft doctrine that will outline its approach to joint sea basing in support of forces ashore. Although sea-based logistics ...
25-Mar-2004
*THE US MARINE CORPS IN IRAQ: Close combat
The jarring transition of Operation 'Iraqi Freedom' from hostile combat operations to peace support operations on 11 April 2003 provided Western military forces with a...
25-Feb-2004
HMS Albion sees dawn of network-enabled warfare
Trials of the Combat Support System (CSS) on board HMS Albion, the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) new amphibious assault ship, held during Exercise 'Bold Vision'...
09-Jan-2004
*Taking back the co-operation initiative - the Joint Maritime Course
The basic premise for the Joint Maritime Course (JMC) - to improve joint interoperability training between air, sea and land forces and increasingly with those...
09-Dec-2003
*Surveillance radars: small ships, broad horizons
As many regional and littoral navies look to improve their capabilities by acquiring fast strike craft, corvettes, offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) and light frigates, so...
08-Sep-2003
*Cleaning up the act
While the matter of shipborne waste management and disposal is undoubtedly one of the least glamorous aspects of naval operations, it is a subject now...
08-Sep-2003
*HMS Manchester trials force-protection drills
The attack on the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Cole while coming alongside in Aden, Yemen, provided a watershed in the focus of force-protection...
25-Jun-2003
HMS Cornwall on DISTEX
The UK Royal Navy's (RN) Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) organisation is responsible for the through-life training of every ship in the fleet for all...
15-Oct-2002
The US Navy's designer of concepts - 'It is an interesting world. And it's exciting. We are at one of those great inflexion points as we transition from the industrial age to the information age'
How do you see the position of "envelope management"? Looking downstream, you are going to want to have those things which will help you ...
03-Oct-2000
The US Navy's designer of concepts - 'The enterprise [use of Web-based chatrooms for command and control] organised itself from the bottom up. That is very, very powerful.'
What are your views on the use of COTS equipment, equipment failure and the loss of personnel? I don't think a failure of COTS ...
03-Oct-2000
The US Navy's designer of concepts - 'There are people who say ''Why go fast? Speed doesn't matter...'' Well those people have never been shot at!'
What contribution can technology make to crew reductions? When an F-18 pilot goes from air-to-air to air-to-ground he does that by moving a switch ...
03-Oct-2000
The US Navy's designer of concepts - 'Any nation that wants to move from the industrial age to the information age would seek the highest degree of interoperability within itself and with its allies as it possibly could.'
Vice Adm Arthur K Cebrowski, US Navy, is President of the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island. During a recent visit to the UK...
03-Oct-2000
The US Navy's designer of concepts - '...I don't design ships and airplanes. I design concepts.'
Vice Adm Arthur K Cebrowski, US Navy, is President of the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island. During a recent visit to the UK...
03-Oct-2000