The fall of the Assad regime in Syria in the final weeks of 2024 continues to reverberate through the Russian political and military system. Russia
Ukrainian uncrewed surface drones (USVs) are dominating combat in the Black Sea few would have predicted. The much larger, and better equipped, Russian Navy has
The Russian Navy base at Tartus in Syria appears under imminent threat as the civil war turns against the Assad regime. As the front lines
Russia has spent the last 15 years steadily modernizing and rearming its navy. The work is intended to recover it from the post-Cold War low
A Turkish operated merchant vessel, the MV Aya, has been hit by a supersonic anti-ship missile in the Black Sea.
A new class of submarine, under construction for the Qatari Emiri Navy, has broken the surface. The submarine is under testing in La Spezia on the Italian coast.
China does not advertise its new submarine designs in the way virtually every other country does. Information in Chinese state media is extremely limited; nothing
The war in the Black Sea has been shaped, maybe even defined, by maritime drones. So far it has been a Ukrainian dominated arena, with
A Russian Navy ship has docked at Ochamchire, in the Russian-supported area of Abkhazi, Georgia.
An Iranian Navy frigate, IRIS Sahand (74) has capsized and sunk in its home port of Bandar Abbas. The ship is 12 years old, and
