On the face of it, these two hypothetical tactical situations appear to be very similar. In both cases, intelligence provides information regarding the capability, intent and preparedness of an adversary to inflict potentially lethal damage.
HMAS Diamantina has been operationally deployed ISO Operation RESOLUTE 2015 and Operation RENDER SAFE 2016 in recent years and during both operations utilised the cheap yet highly effective technology of a recreational drone.
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