$1.8bn ‘wasted’ on cruiser program
The U.S. Navy has wasted $1.84 billion since 2015 on rehabilitating its Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruisers, funds the service would rather have spent on...
UK submarine progress
The Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) has detailed progress in its Dreadnought and SSN-A submarine programmes. HMS Dreadnought, the first of the next-generation strategic deterrent...
HMNZS Te Kaha to deploy to Arabian Sea
In 2025, the New Zealand frigate HMNZS Te Kaha will deploy to the Arabian Sea as part of Combined Task Force 150, the multi-national...
Latest Mogami Class frigate launched
On 19 December 2024 the tenth Mogami class frigate, named Nagara, was launched at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Nagasaki. A total of...
2024 Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Plan
On 20 December the Commonwealth Government released the 2024 Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Plan (NSSP). This document outlines the Government’s investment of up to...
Climate change: lessons from Tracy
By Raelene Lockhorst and John Coyne*
On Christmas morning in 1974, Cyclone Tracy unleashed catastrophic destruction on Darwin, forever altering the city and Australia’s approach...
Filling the AUKUS comms gap
By Jacqueline Gibson and Cameron Hendrix*
Gaps in AUKUS communication strategies limit public understanding of its benefits and allow malign actors, such as China and Russia,...
Building maritime capacity in polar regions
By Aaron Delano-Johnson and Myles McCarthy*
Sporting the distinctive racing stripe worn by many of the globe’s coast guards, the world’s newest polar-capable research vessel...
Upgrade of spent-fuel facility in arrears
A project to upgrade government facilities designed to manage the spent fuel from nuclear-powered US Navy warships is more than $2 billion over budget...
Update on US Ford Class aircraft carriers
On 13 December the US Congressional Research Service published the 34 page report “Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for...