Submarines and the capacity of the Public Service
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...