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There is a burning ship abandoned off the west coast of the Americas. On August 6th there was a serious fire aboard the Chinese car carrier *Min Jiang Kou* in the Pacific.This is a useful news hook for an article I have been planning for a while...[Read More >....](/Dangerous-Fuels-On-Ships.html "READ MORE")
 Chinese social media is sharing official imagery of an amphibious exercise using a civilian ferry. While these are routine in China, they bear special attention as indications of readiness and hints at capabilities which may apply to cross-strait scenarios with Taiwan...[Read More >....](/China-Amphibious-Exercise-202607.html "READ MORE")
Russia’s annual Navy Day parades have given way to small-scale demonstrations of port defence technologies designed to counter Ukrainian threats.The display took place just 1.8 km away from where the capsized hull of the arctic patrol ship Purga still rests...[Read More >....](/Russian-Port-Defences.html "READ MORE")
**Regularly UPDATED**   Reflecting on the Russo-Ukraine War, I am putting together a timeline of the most relevant events in the Black Sea. This should provide a useful overview...[Read More >....](/Timeline-2022-Ukraine-Invasion-At-Sea.html "READ MORE")
 The Russian Navy has begun painting some valuable warships in a World War Two dazzle-inspired camouflage.It is a dazzling development...[Read More >....](/Russian-Dazzle-Camo.html "READ MORE")
**UPDATED** *Originally posted Jan 24*.  Russia’s use of long range drones, principally the Iranian Shahed type, against Ukraine is well documented. Ukraine too is increasingly using this category of drone.This article will focus on the Ukrainian OWA-UAVs which can strike deep into Russia...[Read More >....](/Ukraine-OWA-UAVs.html "READ MORE")
 The FP-1 & FP-2 are probably Ukraine’s best known deep strike drones at the moment, slipping into the public consciousness in a similar way to the infamous Shahed. They are, in some respects, Ukraine’s answer to the Shahed, an affordable, reliable, versatile system which can be produced in quantity.At the moment they are leading the charge against Russian…
  A Danish USV manufacturer, Stormborn, has accidently provided an excellent example of how Denmark, and other European Navies, can better monitor increased Russian Naval activity and hybrid warfare operations at sea...[Read More >....](/Stormborn-USV-Incident.html "READ MORE")
 TWhen President Zelensky visited Odesa recently, he was presented with a range of interesting and, in several cases previously unconfirmed, pieces of kit. Next to a couple of surface drones (USVs) was something completely unreported: a new type of underwater drone (UUV).The new UUV is approximately the size of a heavyweight torpedo...[Read More…
 The Greyshark Series 2 AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) developed by Euroatlas in Germany have distinctive biologically inspired hull forms to maximise efficiency.They are a promising European AUV design..[Read More >....](/Greyshark-AUV.html "READ MORE")