Kiwi Sea Ceptor Missile Firings
Last week (Dec 2023) the frigate HMNZS Te Mana conducted two Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missile firings in the East Australia Exercise Area, which completed...
A century of nuclear dismantling
A senior US Navy official has confirmed the existence of a new office focused on nuclear carrier inactivation and dismantlement, as first reported by...
Beefing up the Hunter class
BAE Systems recently unveiled a proposal to add additional VLS cells to the Hunter class frigates being built for the Royal Australian Navy, Naval...
New Chinese stealth technology
China's latest non-nuclear submarine, the Type-039C Yuan Class, features a distinctive angled sail. We can now be confident that this is part of a...
Submarine workforce recruitment drive
The US Navy has launched its third annual initiative aimed at recruiting thousands of workers from across the country into the submarine industrial base...
The AUKUS workforce challenge
By Michael Hickey and James Fitzgerald*
Australia hasn’t been truly sovereign in its own right since 1788. The head of state remains a foreign monarch....
Opportunities with new export rules
By Bec Shrimpton and George Henneke*
The Australian government’s proposed amendments to the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012 have provoked strong reactions, the Australian Strategic...
Australian Nuclear-Powered Submarines: Addressing the why?
In this episode of the #saltwaterstrategists, Goldrick Seminar series, we hear from Rear Admiral Matt Buckley, Head Nuclear-Powered Submarine Capability on Australian Nuclear-Powered Submarines:...
Philippines envisages more US-PN patrols
On 24 November the Philippines Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary, Mr Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said the Philippines and the United States would hold...
Second Arafura class OPV launched
The Arafura class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) NUSHIP Eyre has been launched at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia. Eyre is the second...