Defence Blog – The U.S. Navy has placed its biggest order yet for an underwater weapon nobody has ever seen and designed to sit silently on the seafloor for months, waiting for an enemy submarine to wander close enough to torpedo without warning.
(Thanks to Alain)
Marine Forum – A silent handover of a dragon: Almost unnoticed, TKMS has delivered the Israeli Navy’s most modern submarine. The “Drakon” completes the Dolphin II class and already hints at the Dakar class to come.
Breaking Defense – Maritime drone manufacturer Saildrone has received a new task order from the Navy worth $16.3 million to continue their operations in the US Southern Command region into next year.
The War Zone – The Navy will no longer categorize enlarged Virginia Block V and VI types as attack submarines ahead of Ohio class guided missile boats’ retirements.
CIMSEC – Artificial intelligence aboard a warship should not look like a revolution. It should look like a well-trained petty officer who never sleeps, never tires, and never lets a maintenance log fall through the cracks.
Breaking Defense – German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall unveiled today a new guided-missile frigate, dubbed the GMF 140, intended for an undisclosed procurement tender in North America.
Breaking Defense – CSIS’s Mark Cancian responds to a recent op-ed in Breaking Defense about the relative standstill at the strait.
CIMSEC – Operation Spiderweb should haunt Taiwan’s strategic imagination. It demonstrated that cheap, expendable drones can neutralize assets once considered untouchable. For Taipei, the message is urgent: the future battlespace will be saturated by unmanned systems, and deterrence will depend on numbers, resilience, and adaptability. But ambition without follow-through is a liability. Taiwan must move from speeches and declarations toward mass production, component autonomy, doctrinal change, and tightly integrated partnerships, especially with the United States and with Ukraine.
Navy Lookout – In this guest article, Emiel Jitben provides a perspective from the Netherlands about the Anglo-Dutch plan to jointly develop a new Amphibious Transport Ship (ATS). Here he considers the future vessel, industrial workshare and its implications for amphibious operations.
The Guardian – Russian presence in Irish waters underscores the fact that, rather than being out of sight and out of mind, the country is on the frontline.
The War Zone – The Navy has a plan for a revolutionary modular surface-to-air missile arsenal, and submarines are intended to be added as launch platforms.
USNI News – Traffic levels in the Strait of Hormuz last week dropped yet again, bringing the flow of ships through the Middle East passageway to levels not seen since March, shortly after the conflict between Iran and the United States began.
The War Zone – The danger to Red Sea shipping has increased once again after the Houthis began attacking Saudi tankers.
The War Zone – During a long-endurance trek across the Pacific, a small uncrewed surface vessel (USV) owned by a California company had an encounter with a Chinese guided missile destroyer near the Philippines. The Lightfish USV, owned by Seasats, came close enough to the Type 052D guided missile destroyer that it was able to capture the warship on video.
European Defence Review – HII (Huntington Ingalls Industries), America’s largest shipbuilder and producer of the Romulus Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) and the Remus Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV), hosted a media briefing on July 20, 2026, discussing its Odyssey Autonomous Control System and recent developments.
(Thanks to Alain)
Defense News – The U.S. Navy is rapidly advancing its unmanned surface fleet. Just a little over two weeks after U.S. Central Command utilized three Corsair unmanned surface vessels to strike a submarine and ship maintenance facility at the Bandar Abbas naval base in Iran, marking the “first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations,” the Navy confirmed its first live-fire training exercise of its Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft uncrewed surface vessel.
Energies Media – Sweden generates more than 20 percent of its electricity from onshore wind and has staked its industrial competitiveness on a green power future. Yet when it comes to the sea, the country keeps saying no. In the latest round of offshore wind decisions, the Swedish government denied 11 permit applications while approving just two — following 13 rejections in 2024. For a nation racing to expand renewable capacity, the pattern is striking. What keeps blocking development just beyond the shoreline is a question the numbers alone don’t answer.
(Thanks to Alain)
Modern War Institute – Deterrence today is a contest over time. The United States and its Pacific allies and partners need time to decide, move, repair, and coordinate. Beijing needs speed, ambiguity, and an opportunity to present the region with a fait accompli. Those opposing clocks point to five practical plays available to the United States and its allies and partners to deter Chinese aggression in the region now.
Ashai Shimbun – Experts believe that the Chinese have constructed a new nuclear-powered attack submarine that is topped with a low-profile sail and has advanced stealth capabilities.
(Thanks to Alain)
The War Zone – Putting YJ-20s on Type 052D destroyers, not just the giant Type 055, distributes the capability across many more hulls and potentially a much larger area.
UK Defence Journal – The Royal Navy has tested uncrewed and autonomous technology alongside its US and Australian counterparts to demonstrate how the three AUKUS allies could protect critical undersea infrastructure.
(Thanks to Alain)
China Maritime Studies Institute – Vice Admiral (VADM) Zhang Zheng (张峥) appears to have been promoted to the most senior billet in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy (PLAN). He seems to have taken up this responsibility as early as December 2025.
Defence Blog – Sevmash shipyard rolled the Yasen-M class submarine Ulyanovsk out of its construction hall, completing the sixth vessel’s slipway construction phase. Five Yasen and Yasen-M submarines currently serve in Russia’s Navy, and Sevmash laid the keel for a ninth vessel, Murmansk, on June 17, 2026.
(Thanks to Alain)
Navy Lookout – The US Navy has confirmed that its planned Trump-class guided-missile battleship, whose lead ship would be USS Defiant, will be nuclear-powered. The propulsion decision could have consequences extending beyond the BB(X) programme (now redesignated BBGN), placing additional pressure on US aircraft-carrier construction and the naval nuclear industrial base, with potential second-order implications for AUKUS and the submarine programmes of Australia and Britain.
National Defense – Traditional sea mine countermeasures tend to flounder in contested environments, and the Navy is looking to add more autonomy to its demining practices.
(Thanks to Alain)
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