By Dan Middlemiss, 24 August 2025 The accelerating development of naval drone systems has left navies, both large and small, scrambling to find doctrinal bases for deploying these systems. In […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 17 August 2025 The US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) recently laid out its vision for the Modular Surface Attack Craft (MASC) program. This involves a family […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 1 August 2025 The war between Russia and Ukraine has certainly focused attention on the important role robotic systems such as military drones can play in major […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 11 July 2025 A few days ago, I had a very pleasant conversation with John Brannen of the new NATO office in Halifax. The Defence Innovation […]
By Alec Rembowski, 13 June 2025 The war in Ukraine is proving to be the testing grounds for revolutionary new technologies and techniques for conducting warfare moving into the second […]
By David Morse, 15 April 2025 A new class of frigates for the French navy FDI (Frégate de defense et d’intervention) brings an interesting and new approach to the asymmetric […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 12 March 2025 Personnel shortages have plagued the RCN for years. It’s not just a problem in Canada, the same problem has affected other navies, including […]
Message from CDS and DM, 26 September 2024 A New Era for the Cyber Domain: Launch of the CAF Cyber Command — Originally published by: The Maple Leaf Today, we […]
By Kate E. Todd, 20 September 2024. On September 10, 2024, OSI Maritime announced that is has been awarded a contract by Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada to begin […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 20 August 2024 It was not many years ago when some in this Forum were holding out hope for the next ‘magic bullet’ for Canadian warships, and […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 12 March 2024 The Department of National Defence has released its Artificial Intelligence Strategy. In the Introduction, CDS General Wayne Eyre and DND Deputy Minister Bill […]
New Naval Weapons: Leaving the RCN Behind? Dr. Ann Griffiths In the past few years, we’ve seen some interesting developments in naval (and land) warfare. The Ukrainian armed forces have […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 8 February 2023 In 1977 Ken Booth outlined roles for naval forces – what has become known as Booth’s Triangle. This ‘triangle’ illustrates the roles of […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 2 December 2021 Both Russia and China have been hard at work developing and now testing hypersonic weapons. They both claim success in their recent tests. […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 13 September 2021 Technology marches inexorably onward. Resistance is futile! Or is it? It’s interesting to see that the President of the US International Longshoremen’s Association […]
Media release, 16 March 2021 Following the recent announcements by Ultra of contract awards for the Hull Mounted Sonar (HMS) and Variable Depth Sonar (VDS) subsystems on the Canadian Surface […]
David Dunlop, 22 January 2021 Now that both Canada and Spain have signed contracts for SPY-7 Radars for both the CSC and F110 Frigates, it seems fitting to discuss total […]
David Dunlop, 13 January 2021. The USN will deploy its first High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) integrated on an operational Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer […]
Dan Middlemiss, 10 January 2021 The US Congressional Research Service has released an update on the USN’s plans to accelerate the procurement of Large Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles [1]. […]
David Dunlop, 17 December 2020. How Canada got to the point of selecting the BAES Lockheed Martin (LM) Type 26 Frigate as the successful bidder for the RCN’s new Canadian […]
