Ships

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...

Leaders of sub that ran aground fired

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The leaders of a Navy submarine that struck an undersea mountain last month in the South China Sea were fired last week (Nov 2021),...

A stronger Navy faster

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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has released a new report 'Building a stronger Navy, faster', which recommends a path forward to address the growing...

A project-delivery problem with a strategic fix

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By ‘Sebastian’* The sudden announcement of AUKUS and the plan for Australia to have nuclear submarines is at its heart a means to provide a...

Australia needs nuclear submarines now, not later

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By Tom Lewis* In the debate which has ensued since the federal government decided not to continue with the French submarine contract, it has become...