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...
Leaders of sub that ran aground fired
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
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
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
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...
N-sub HMS Astute in WA
The Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) Astute is conducting a port call to Perth (Western Australia). The visit, a first for an Astute-class submarine,...