What’s with Russia’s crippled submarine
By Tom Sharpe*
A Russian diesel-electric submarine is currently on a surface transit of the North Sea being escorted by the Dutch Navy. The Novorossiysk is...
Time for an unconventional Australian defence posture
By Sally Burt, David Kilcullen, Ian Langford and Andrew Maher
As Australia prepares its 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS), the nation must recognise that a window of...
China’s underwater electronic net
By Tye Graham and P.W. Singer*
The People's Liberation Army is building an “invisible net” across the western Pacific, a five-layer, seabed-to-space sensor architecture known...
Towed sonar changes submarine hunting
Towed array sonar is a sinuous cable of hydrophones trailed astern of warships and submarines, a technology that has taken ASW from speculative hunting...
Royal Marines stop drug boat with one shot
Royal Marines have crippled a high-speed drugs boat with a single, pinpoint sniper shot in one of the most dramatic counter-narcotics operations the Royal...
Mogami deal with Japan huge on several countsi
By Robert Farley*
Australia in August inked a deal to purchase 11 new frigates from Japan. The sale was noteworthy not only for the hypermodern...
Time again for battleships?
By Tom Sharpe*
If you like warships then you will have a fondness for battleships. It’s impossible not to. Their size, their lines, their massive...
Industry and a protracted conflict
National Resilience – how to prepare Australian industry to support protracted conflict.
(The author's presentation to the ANI's 2025 Goldrick Seminar explored the themes in...
How China boosted shipbuilding
Ten years ago, the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, introduced two major policy initiatives: Made in China 2025 and military-civil...
Changes to US’s AUKUS and Taiwan dealings
A top US defense official has signalled changes to the AUKUS agreement to make it more "sustainable" and with defense arrangements with Taiwan, Breaking...