Monthly Archives: September 2026

Monitoring and surveillance activities by New Zealand against illicit maritime activities including ship-to-ship transfers

https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/pressite_000001_02637.html September 8, 2026 Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS TE MANA(Source: New Zealand Ministry of Defence)

AUKUS has put Australia’s submarine effort back on track

The first question to consider when thinking about a major defence program such as AUKUS is this: defence against whom? Australian governments have given two different answers to this question over the years. Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s government said in 1987 that Australia would have a ten-year warning window within which to prepare against anContinue reading “AUKUS has put Australia’s submarine effort back on track”

Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II at RNZAF Base Ohakea

Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II at RNZAF Base Ohakea

Vintage meets modern: Swordfish and Seafire conduct flypast over HMS Queen Elizabeth

Jonathan Moynihan – 10th September 2026 at 12:04pm Two vintage Fleet Air Arm aircraft have conducted a flypast over one of the UK’s aircraft carriers as she continues on her three-month deployment around the country and northern Europe.  A Swordfish and a Seafire from Navy Wings, a naval aviation charity, flew past HMS Queen ElizabethContinue reading “Vintage meets modern: Swordfish and Seafire conduct flypast over HMS Queen Elizabeth”

Goodbye HMS Northumberland as decommissioned warship makes final departure

Tim Cooper – 10th September 2026 at 9:00am Many former crew members will likely shed a tear at the sight of ex-HMS Northumberland being ignominiously towed out of Portsmouth Harbour by a tug. But this is the fate that awaits almost every Royal Navy warship in the end, with Northumberland expected to end up inContinue reading “Goodbye HMS Northumberland as decommissioned warship makes final departure”