12 UK SSN-AUKUS subs confirmed
The Defence Investment Plan commits the UK to building up to twelve next-generation SSN-AUKUS attack submarines, the same boats Australia will build, with steel...
RN’s controversial new vision
By Tom Sharpe*
The Royal Navy has developed a bold and controversial vision for its future fleet.
Our troubled but finally effective Type 45 destroyers will...
How Australia’s nuclear submarines will fit
By Malcolm Davis*
There’s a saying about submarine warfare: ‘there are two types of naval vessels – submarines and targets.’ Nuclear-powered submarines, SSNs, are the...
UK’s Defence Investment Plan Released
The UK Government’s long-awaited Defence Investment Plan was released at the end of June. The Executive Summary of the document states:
“The Defence Investment Plan...
Major changes to Australian defence acquisition
On 2 July the Commonwealth Government released the Rebuilding Defence Capability Report, while on the previous day the Defence Delivery Group was stood up....
UK Defence Investment Plan
The UK’s new Defence Investment Plan (DIP) has detailed four platform types to be introduced into Royal Navy (RN) service, as central elements of...
Hormuz: Merchant ships could go uncrewed
Reportedly, approximately 20,000 seafarers on board some 2,000 ships, including tankers, bulk carriers, cargo ships, and cruise ships, were stranded in the Persian Gulf...
US warships to aid Venezuela after quake
Two U.S. warships, the USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) and the littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS-15), have been dispatched to Venezuela following the nation’s...
Iran war’s lesson for Australia
By David Kilcullen*
Iran has emerged undefeated after nearly four months of war against a nuclear-armed regional rival (Israel) and the world’s most powerful military...
India’s three new ships
The Indian Navy commissioned the Nilgiri-class frigate INS Dunagiri, Survey Vessel (Large) INS Sanshodhak and ASW Shallow Water Craft INS Agray on June 21,...