Ships

Submarines and the capacity of the Public Service

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By Benjamin Cherry-Smith* The announcement of the AUKUS partnership and that Australia will be acquiring nuclear-powered submarines was presented as a “fait accompli.” There was...

HMAS Stalwart commissioned

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The Royal Australian Navy commissioned its latest ship into service on November 13 at Fleet Base West, Rockingham, Western Australia, the Department of Defence...

Fourth Scorpene sub for India

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The fourth submarine of the Project – 75, Yard 11878 has been delivered to the Indian Navy (9 Nov 2021). Project – 75 includes...

India’s first stealth missile destroyer

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Y 12704 (Visakhapatnam), the lead ship of Project 15B stealth guided missile destroyers being built at Mazgaon Docks Limited (MDL), was delivered to the...

Russian ships deploy to Pacific

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The corvette Gremyashchy and the Kilo class submarines Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Volkhov recently made a scheduled call at the port of Manila. This was part...

China builds model US ships in desert

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Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly for practice for a...

AUKUS and France: awkward lessons

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By Peter Jennings* It’s not yet two months old, but our AUKUS partnership with the United States and Britain is already showering us with lessons...

China and Turkey deliver ships to Pakistan

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It is the first of the four frigates committed by China, for which a deal was signed between the two allies in 2017. The...

Australian submarine choices

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The political and strategic ramifications of the AUKUS pact announced in September continue to reverberate but the details of how Australia will actually acquire...

Australia already has a submarine capability gap

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By Marcus Hellyer* At Senate estimates hearings on 24 March of this year, the independent Senator Malcolm Roberts bluntly asked Defence Department officials, ‘If the...