As children of the 20th century, many of us marvelled at books, comics and TV shows featuring ‘laser’ weapons. It was pure fantasy and sci-fi at its best. But it is fantasy and fiction no more.
The tactics used by navies are for the most part developed in times of peace. Especially, as is currently the case, when there is a long period between naval combat. (It can be argued the last time significant naval forces actually fought against one another was in 1982 during the Falklands War).
Operational and Technological Developments in Maritime Warfare: Implications for the Western Pacific
This volume is the proceedings of a seminar held at HMAS Watson in May 1993, examining recent operational and technological developments in all aspects of maritime warfare (air, surface and sub-surface) and touch on many of the
Amongst the most enduring tasks of any warship from its inception as a tool of war many years ago, has always been its ability to project firepower inland. Before troops go ashore and before air superiority can be achieved, a warship can move into a hostile area and quite literally define the littoral, by the reach of its guns alone.
Soon after the outbreak of World War II an order was placed for sixty minesweepers of simple design to be constructed in Australian shipyards as part of the Commonwealth Government’s wartime shipbuilding programme.
A letter from Vice-Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins KBE, CB, ex-Chief of the Naval Staff, Royal Australian Navy, to Alan Payne of the Naval Historical Society of Australian in June 1980 reflecting on the history of the development of what starte
This book represents the definitive study of how the operation of three very modern guided missile destroyers, acquired from the United States Navy, acted as catalysts in the Royal Australian Navy’s transformation from being an adjunct to the Roya
Mike has had a life-long passion for naval history and has written a compelling account of the brave men in HMAS Perth (I), who endured so much in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres during WWII. The mighty Australian cruiser met her demise when sunk by a vastly superior Japanese force off the coast of Java in 1942 with the loss of 357 of her ship’s company, including her Captain Hector Waller.
This volume reprints a Central Studies Establishment paper prepared for the RAN-sponsored Seaborne Air Capabilities Special Group in 1978, during considerations over the replacement of the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne.