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FSS ship

Re-Balancing Design: New Technology and Thinking in Naval Architecture

New technological threats and new operational requirements are emerging in the naval environment, raising the question of how ship and submarine designs should develop...
INS Satpura

Indian Navy and ASEAN navies complete inaugural combined maritime exercise

The Indian Navy (IN) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) conducted their inaugural combined maritime exercise in early May, with the...
STRIX

AVALON: BAE launches STRIX drone and Razer munition

BAE Systems Australia has unveiled a tactical uncrewed aerial system and a new precision munition at the Avalon Air Show in Melbourne. Named STRIX the...
Aegis combat system

Intelligent Development: Managing Data Through the CMS

A combat management system (CMS) is as essential in a modern warship as any of the platform’s sensors and weapons. Discussion of naval ship and...
Chief petty officers keep watch on the bridge of the US Navy (USN) Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) USS Billings, in the Caribbean Sea in April 2022. The USN’s Freedom-class LCS vessels are fitted with the Lockheed Martin COMBATSS-21 system as their combat management system (CMS). (US Navy)

Thinking Warships

The increasing adoption of open architecture and artificial intelligence is growing the capacity of naval combat management systems. In simple terms, naval platforms deliver military...
Vice Admiral Michael Noonan, Australia’s Chief of Navy, is pictured onboard the Royal Australian Navy ANZAC-class frigate HMAS Parramatta, while the ship prepared for a regional presence deployment in mid-2022. (Australian Department of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia)

Good Order at Sea Crucial to Australia’s Strategic Interest, Says RAN...

Continued co-operation between navies, maritime forces, and their parent countries remains critical in ensuring good order at sea and the protection of strategic interests,...
TF 59’s commissioning ceremony

Integrating Unmanned Maritime Capabilities to Tackle Hybrid Threats

Western and regional navies operating around the Persian Gulf have for some time faced the challenge of hybrid threats, including from unmanned systems. Now...
Bluebottle-RAN

RAN Melds Unmanned Systems Into New Model Navy

The Royal Australian Navy’s new strategy for developing unmanned surface and sub-surface systems delivers both capability and capacity to support the navy’s new fleet. Navies...
Kongsberg-NSM-1

Defend and Deter

Published in the November/December 2020 Issue - The air defence threat-and-response equation exists increasingly in integrated layers. Armada looks at two examples of how...
Colllins-Submarine

Better Than Ever?

The Royal Australian Navy’s six Collins-class diesel-electric submarines are delivering improved operational output, just as Australia’s requirement for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) appears to be...

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