Navy

By Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth (Reuters) Russian forces abandoned the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island on Thursday, in a major victory for Ukraine

SHANGHAI, June 25 (Reuters) – China’s military said on Saturday that the recent fly through of a U.S. maritime plane through the Taiwan

By Tony Capaccio and Julie Johnsson (Bloomberg) —Boeing Co. is expected to deliver Orca –an underwater drone the size of a subway car that’s

by Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) The Kremlin said on Thursday that no agreement had been reached to sell grain from Ukraine to Turkey – which Ukraine says

By Joe Brock (Reuters) – Indonesia’s head of the armed forces said on Friday that he is investigating a Reuters report that navy officers asked

by Admiral James Stavridis (Bloomberg) The US military has its hands full at the moment with a vicious war in Ukraine and US-China tensions over issues from

A new Washington Post report claims that China’s People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is building a Navy base in Ream Cambodia, 565 Nautical Miles north of

Turkey, a NATO member, is in talks with the UN and Russia to provide Navy escorts for grain ships and Russia says Ukraine and the west must demine approaches

by CDR Salamander (Op-Ed) The greatest tragedies from war, both directly and indirectly, are those that were clearly foreseen, knowable, or otherwise clear as

by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Yesterday gCaptain helped announce the appointment of US Army General Lyons as the new White House Port Envoy tasked with

by Admiral James Stavridis (Bloomberg Opinion) When I was operations officer on an Aegis guided-missile destroyer in the late 1980s, we were given a mission in

by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Over the many years of reporting maritime news, the idea that China could militarize its commercial maritime fleet has been

By Daniel Flatley (Bloomberg) Taiwan must gird itself against potential Chinese aggression through military deterrence that includes acquiring the right

In this episode, of What’s Going On In Shipping, maritime historian Sal Mercogliano discusses how the conflict in the Black Sea between Ukraine and

The US Navy has used a trail of misinformation to stonewall Congress and divert funding from working ships to naval aviation and expensive/sexy warships like

By Alexander Cornwell (Reuters) The U.S. Navy said on Wednesday it was establishing a new multinational task force that would target arms smuggling in the

by John Konrad (gCaptain) The US Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Mike Gilday released an update to the CNO Professional Reading Program. Gone from the

By John Konrad (gCaptain) Last week, gCaptain reported the U.S. Air Force demonstrated a lethal new weapon that could provide a low-cost and more

In this episode, maritime historian Sal Mercogliano explores the timeline and issues behind the July 12, 2020 fire onboard USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego,

By James Stavridis (Bloomberg) On the surface, the tiny Ukrainian navy, just 5,000 active-duty sailors and a handful of small coastal boats, appears to