
Royal Australian Navy (RAN) support ship HMAS Sirius was decommissioned in Perth’s Fleet Base West after 15 years of service.

Defense company Austal Australia commenced sea trials of the first of six “evolved” Cape-class patrol boats under construction for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

The first Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has been launched at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia.

German Brandenburg-class frigate Bayern has entered the South China Sea as part of the first deployment to the Indo-Pacific in the last 20 years.

Defense company Lockheed Martin Australia was awarded an AUD$33 million (around $23.6 million) design contract to support the upgrade of the Aegis combat system on the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) fleet of three Hobart-class destroyers.

Almost 300 Royal Australian Navy (RAN) members have completed officer training in 2021 – the largest cohort of new officers to graduate in a single year since the 1950’s.

The Philippine Navy (PN) decommissioned two Miguel Malvar-class corvettes BRP Miguel Malvar (PS19) and BRP Magat Salamat (PS20) at Naval Base Heracleo Alano in Cavite City on 10 December.

Royal Australian Navy (RAN) vessels have finished nine days of maritime warfare training with four nations Canada, Germany, Japan and US during Annualex 2021.

Trinidad and Tobago has commissioned two Cape-class patrol boats TTS Port of Spain (CG41) and TTS Scarborough (CG42) at the Coast Guard headquarter, Staubles Bay, Chaguaramas.

Five international navies, including the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), German Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), and US Navy, will engage in various operations under Annualex 2021 drill.

UAE-based defense tech company Edge Group has signed a strategic agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to jointly design unmanned surface vessels (USVs).

British arms, security, and aerospace company BAE Systems has unveiled that it is transferring more than two million digital artefacts and 90,000 documents from the UK’s Type 26 frigate program to Adelaide’s Osborne Naval Shipyard.