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NATO says beefing up Baltic presence after Denmark drone sightings
Sep 28, 2025 (AFP)
The reinforced measures "include multiple intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and at least one air-defence frigate" in the region to the wes...
Nations weigh maritime stability as U.S. provides $55M for efforts in Indo-Pacific
Sep 25, 2025 (UPI)
Rubio also announced the United States is allocating $55 million to support maritime law enforcement in the Indo-Pacific region, the State Department announced ...
Italy sends navy frigate to assist Gaza aid flotilla
Sep 24, 2025 (AFP)
The Global Sumud Flotilla said more than a dozen explosions were heard around the flotilla as it sailed off Greece late on Tuesday, with damage caused by "unide...
1 injured in China Coast Guard water cannon attack; Rubio backs Philippines against 'coercive' ocean reserve
Sep 16, 2025 (AFP)
Two Chinese ships used water cannons while in pursuit of the BRP Datu Gumbay Piang as it delivered rations to Filipino fishermen near the Beijing-controlled Sca...
Australia to spend US$8 bn on nuclear sub shipyard facility
Sep 14, 2025 (AFP)
The investment is to be spent over a decade to transform a shipbuilding and maintenance precinct in Perth, Western Australia, Defence Minister Richard Marles sa...
China says newest aircraft carrier sailed through Taiwan Strait
Sep 12, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing has ploughed billions of dollars into modernising its military in recent years, a trend that has unnerved some governments in East Asia despite China in...
Philippines protests China nature reserve plan for Scarborough Shoal
Sep 11, 2025 (AFP)
China revealed plans a day earlier for a reserve to maintain "diversity, stability, and sustainability of the natural ecosystem of Huangyan Island", Beijing's n...
Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power
Sep 11, 2025 (SPX)
But the hardware is only half the story. The mission profile - primarily mine-laying - is deceptively simple on paper yet terrifying in strategic terms. Imagine...
Australia to deploy fleet of underwater strike drones
Sep 10, 2025 (AFP)
The Royal Australian Navy will arm itself with dozens of the home-developed, cutting-edge autonomous drones, with the first entering service in January, it said...
Venezuelan jets again fly past U.S. Navy cruiser
Sep 06, 2025 (UPI)
The Department of War called the move by the two F-16 fighter jets to fly within weapons range of the USS Jason Dunham "highly provocative," and President Donal...
Pentagon says Venezuelan planes buzzed US ship in 'highly provocative move'
Sep 05, 2025 (AFP)
"The cartel running Venezuela is strongly advised not to pursue any further effort to obstruct, deter or interfere with counter-narcotics and counter-terror ope...
China criticises Australia, Canada warships in Taiwan Strait
Sep 04, 2025 (UPI)
Navy reinstates Rep. Ronny Jackson as rear admiral
Sep 04, 2025 (UPI)
The Texas Republican announced the Navy's decision to reinstate his rank on X, posting the June 13 letter from Navy Secretary John Phelan. "After finding good c...
U.S. firm Leidos expanding Royal Navy's autonomous fleet
Sep 04, 2025 (UPI)
Leidos announced it has designed and produced 24 autonomous medium surface-insertion craft that can deploy commando strike teams, light tactical-mobility platfo...
Maduro says US warships with 1,200 missiles targeting Venezuela
Sep 01, 2025 (AFP)
The United States, which accuses Maduro of heading a drug cartel, has announced a deployment of warships to the south Caribbean in what it labeled an anti-drug ...
Norway picks BAE Systems for navy frigates order
Aug 31, 2025 (AFP)
The contract is worth an estimated 100 billion kroner ($10 billion), according to media reports. BAE beat out competing bids for the frigates from French, Germa...
US warship enters Panama Canal, heading toward Caribbean
Aug 30, 2025 (AFP)
AFP journalists saw the naval vessel passing through one of the canal's locks at around 9:30 pm (0230 GMT Saturday) and navigating east toward the Atlantic. The...
U.K. Carrier Strike Group drops anchor in Tokyo Bay
Aug 28, 2025 (UPI)
Sailors lined the carrier's flight deck as the HMS Prince of Wales and other vessels entered Tokyo Bay while onlookers watched from nearby bridges and other vie...
US sending more ships to Caribbean to counter drug cartels
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
A guided missile crusier, the USS Erie, and a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, the USS Newport News, are due in the region next week, the source familiar ...
Venezuela deploys warships, drones as US destroyers draw near
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
In a video on social media, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino announced a "significant" drone deployment as well as naval patrols along its Caribbean coast, inc...
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