Warning over WA dry-dock capability
The Royal Australian Navy admiral in charge of readying military facilities for a key port call by nuclear-powered submarines, including the future SSN AUKUS...
Light landing craft project begins
Sydney-based The Whiskey Project Group will build two new Light Landing Craft, known officially as Landing Craft Lights (LCL), for the Royal Australian Navy...
Korean pitch for general-purpose frigates
Korean builder Hanwha Ocean at the Indian Ocean Defence & Security Conference in Perth presented a range of frigates including FFX Batch II. The...
HMNZS Aotearoa’s vital RIMPAC role
Over the course of RIMPAC, HMNZS Aotearoa has played a vitally important role in the exercise by refuelling 13 participating naval vessels. But their...
$2.2bn contract for Collins service
The Australian government signed a $2.2 billion four-year contract with national submarine builder ASC last week to keep Canberra’s existing Collins-class submarines in service...
Australia’s first MQ-4C Triton
On 31 July Australia’s first MQ-4C Triton Remotely Piloted Aircraft System – ‘AUS 1’ – to be operated by the Royal Australian Air Force...
HMS Queen Elizabeth returns home
The Royal Navy flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth finally returned home after being sidelined for four months, the National Interest reports.
The £3.2 billion...
Addressing AUKUS critics squarely
By Ross Babbage*
The AUKUS program to deliver eight nuclear-powered conventionally armed submarines to Australia is a large, technologically challenging, and industrially demanding venture.
Many doubts...
HMAS Sydney first RAN ship to fire SM6 missile.
The Royal Australian Navy has fired a Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) during a military exercise near Hawaii, in a move the federal government said...
RIMPAC’s 40 ships from 29 nations
Multinational ships sail in formation July 22, off the coast of Hawaii during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface...