Warning time squandered
Warning Time Squandered: Australia, China’s 2027 Ambition, and the Test of Maritime Preparedness
By Nick Tate*
The Pentagon’s latest assessment of China’s military trajectory is confronting....
PLA-N wants nine carriers by 2035
China plans to field a force of nine aircraft carriers by 2035, according to a Defense Department report on Beijing’s military power released on...
Trump-class huge battleship announced
The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The...
Philippine Navy shadows Chinese warships
On 24 December the Philippine Navy (PN) announced that it had deployed two of its warships to monitor and escort a Chinese frigate spotted...
$1bn contract for 18 army landing vessels
Austal Limited is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $1.029 billion Design and Build Contract for Landing Craft Medium (LCM) under...
A red-banner year for the PLA
By Sam Roggeveen*
For most of my career, first as an analyst in Australia’s intelligence community and then in the world of think tanks, I...
Australia’s undersea cable vulnerability
By Jocelinn Kang*
Google is laying new submarine cables along Australia’s northern and western approaches. The routes will link to a planned Google AI data...
US Navy announces new small surface combatant
On 19 December the US Navy announced its plan to introduce a new class of smaller combatant ships, the FF(X), as a critical component...
Next Virginia-class boat delivered
Submarine builder General Dynamics Electric Boat delivered a Virginia-class attack boat to the U.S. Navy on Monday, the service announced. The future USS Idaho...
Undersea: where the US is way ahead
By Chris Barrie and Paul Dibb*
Now and foreseeably, the United States dominates undersea submarine warfare. No other country gets near to America in the...