What has to be overcome
By Peter Layton*
Australia’s naval surface combatant fleet is in trouble. The eight Anzac frigates are worn out after three decades of Middle Eastern adventures...
Skills shortage threatens expansion
A skills shortage could derail the federal government’s ambitious plan to modernise the navy by building a fleet of frigates and uncrewed drone boats...
It’s corvette time again
By Tom Lewis*
Once again Australia prepares for war, this time with a new class of warship, called light frigates or corvettes. They have just...
Navy gets bigger but is it enough?
By Malcolm Davis*
The Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant review has laid out plans for the Royal Australian Navy to grow larger, with more firepower in...
CN on future of surface ships
By Brendan Nicholson*
Over decades, a truism has matured that modern technology, surveillance systems and weapons have evolved to the point where surface warships will...
ANZAC SSN: not so optimal pathway
By Peter Briggs*
Doubts about America’s capacity to build and then sell to Australia a series of Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) under the AUKUS agreement...
Austal awarded contract for two more RAN patrol boats
Austal Australia has been awarded a contract extension for the construction of two additional Evolved Cape-class Patrol Boats for the RAN. The A$157 million...
MILAN 2024 under way
India’s MILAN 2024 Multilateral Naval Exercise is underway. Scheduled from 19-27 February it is being held in and off Visakhapatnam the aegis of Eastern...
RSL welcomes Surface Fleet Review
The Returned & Services League of Australia (RSL) has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of February 20 to more than double the Navy’s combat...
Industry seeks clarity and consistency
"Australian industry welcomes the opportunity for greater industry and funding certainty provided by the Government's release of the independent Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant Fleet...