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Germany’s Submarine Gambit: TKMS Takes the Fight for Canada’s Arctic Fleet
In the opaque world of naval procurement, few prizes carry the strategic weight of Canada’s looming submarine replacement programme. Valued at more than $12 billion and encompassing up to 12 new boats, the tender will determine not only the future shape…
Trump’s Greenland pressure tests NATO unity as Alaska troops put on standby
NATO allies are confronting an unusual mix of external coercion and internal strain after President Donald Trump renewed his push to bring Greenland under United States control, while the Pentagon placed a sizeable Alaska-based force on standby for possible domestic…
Royal Navy’s crewless helicopter could not have come at a more urgent moment
On a windswept airfield in Cornwall this week, Britain’s Royal Navy quietly crossed a threshold that has been years in the making. The maiden flight of Proteus, Britain’s first full-sized autonomous helicopter, was not merely a technical milestone. It was…
Trump cites ‘good authority’ on Iran executions as war scare ripples through Middle East skies
President Donald Trump said on 14 January that he had been told Iran was stopping killings and planned executions linked to nationwide protests, a remark that jarred with the mood of impending military action after a day of unusual aviation…
Former US Navy Sailor Jinchao Wei Sentenced to Over 16 Years for Spying for China
A former US Navy sailor was sentenced this week to more than 16 years in prison for trading sensitive military information to an operative of the Chinese intelligence apparatus. The case, adjudicated in federal court in San Diego, underscores both…
Beneath the rubble of war, British Army medics fight a different kind of battle
War has always demanded courage, but few roles require quite the same combination of skill, calm and self-sacrifice as that of the military medic. While soldiers are trained to close with and defeat the enemy, Army medical personnel are trained…
Reports of “mysterious weapon” follow US raid that seized Venezuela’s Maduro
The United States’ 3 January operation in Caracas that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has prompted a second, more opaque debate: whether US forces used a directed-energy or acoustic system to disable Venezuelan defenders during the…
China, Russia and Iran join South Africa for BRICS naval drills off Cape Town
CAPE TOWN — Warships from China, Russia and Iran have begun a week of naval drills with South Africa in waters off Cape Town, in an exercise organised under the BRICS grouping as Washington escalates action against Venezuelan oil shipments.…
Channel passage highlights limits of sanctions policing as Russian oil tankers keep moving
Two oil tankers sanctioned by the United States sailed through the English Channel on Thursday 8 January, as western governments stepped up scrutiny of vessels suspected of helping Russia move oil in defiance of restrictions. The first ship, identified as…
Russian submarine escorts Marinera as US pursuit of ex-Bella 1 continues
Russia has deployed a submarine and other naval assets to accompany an oil tanker pursued across the Atlantic by the United States Coast Guard, escalating a sanctions-enforcement operation into a direct encounter with Russian military forces in international waters. The…