Navy

As sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay of the USS Harry S Truman, they lost control and it went overboard.

Anzac Day has always been difficult for Luke McCallum. But this year, for the first time since having his legs partially amputated, he's ready to march again.

A new fleet of tug boats that the Defence Department ordered for the Royal Australian Navy has been secretly built at a Chinese shipyard under a $28 million contract awarded last year to a Dutch company. 

A New Zealand military inquiry has found a lack of training and experience were among factors that led to the sinking of a navy vessel off the coast of Samoa.

Lincoln Trainor arrived at university on the first day holding a pen and a notepad. Looking around, he realised he was the only student without a laptop. He is one of a growing number of Australians pursuing a new career later in life.

It was an emotional reunion for a Lithuanian man who had tried to row from the US to Australia, but had to be rescued off Queensland after being caught in the wrath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

The government has signed a $313.5 million deal to support Australia's growing fleet of Seahawk helicopters, while people who fly the aircraft have backed their submarine-hunting capability.

The defence minister has once again stressed that China did not breach international law by conducting live-fire drills off the coast of Australia, after the Coalition slammed the government's response to the episode.

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, has begun a three-day trip to Beijing after China conducted naval drills in the Tasman Sea, and inked a deal with the Cook Islands.

Defence officials believe a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine accompanied the flotilla during its deployment off Australia's coast, which involved controversial live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea.

Three Chinese warships that recently completed live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea have re-entered Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone and are currently being tracked operating east of Hobart.

The Chinese warships off Australia's coast are carrying missiles with a range of about 1,000 kilometres, New Zealand's defence minister says, warning of an urgent need for her government to bolster defence spending.

Sailors on the New Zealand Navy frigate Te Kaha observe live rounds being fired from a Chinese vessel's main gun, a day after a similar exercise was conducted between Australia and New Zealand with little notice.

An Emirates flight from Sydney to Christchurch was directly warned by the Chinese military to avoid airspace on Friday morning, before Chinese vessels were believed to have conducted live fire exercises.

Three ships belonging to the Chinese navy have been spotted sailing about 150 nautical miles, or 277km, east of Sydney. The flotilla was first spotted north-east of the country last week.

The Australian Defence Force is monitoring three Chinese navy ships which are understood to be sailing east of Sydney.

Defence reveals a Chinese fighter deployed flares in dangerous proximity to an Australian Poseidon jet while it was conducting a routine patrol of the South China Sea on Tuesday.

An Adelaide RSL is searching for the mystery owner of what is believed to be a World War I diary after it was left on its doorstep.

Tokyo is stepping up its campaign to win a lucrative Australian naval contract by pledging to give "priority" to warship exports over its own navy.

HMAS Protector, crumbling offshore of Heron Island, played an important part in Australia's naval history and is now a marine paradise providing security for fish, turtles, rays, and sharks.