USN nuclear boss upbeat on subs
The Navy is counting on innovations to help it build and staff submarines and ships more efficiently as demand for the capability grows, the...
A new nuclear age for Britain
On 20th March, Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister, and John Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, visited Barrow-in-Furness to join submariners on HMS Vanguard...
Update on Virginia-Class Submarine Program & AUKUS Submarine Pillar 1
On 28 March the US Congressional research Service released a 109 page report titled Navy Virginia-Class Submarine Program and AUKUS Submarine (Pillar 1) Project:...
Russia plans larger Arctic sub fleet
Russia plans to significantly increase and modernize the firepower of its Arctic-based submarine fleet. Before the end of the decade three additional Borei-class nuclear...
Unseen sacrifice in the Silent Service
By George Allison, UK Defence Journal
Beneath the vast, unforgiving ocean, hidden from the world and far removed from everything we take for granted, a...
Report on Columbia-class submarine
The following is the March 18, 2025 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Columbia (SSBN-826) Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress.
The...
Rethink AUKUS, ex-Defence chief says
The United States has become an unreliable ally under Donald Trump’s presidency and the Albanese government should urgently develop a plan B for Australia’s...
N-subs: let’s move to Plan B
By Peter Briggs*
The Trump administration’s actions in abandoning long-term alliances with Europe, support for Nato and Ukraine is a wakeup call. The new reality...
AUKUS: Why Australia should stay the course
The world is in a difficult stage of its recent history, and the new United States administration’s change of tack is undeniably jarring, Jennifer...
AUKUS: a conspiracy of silence
Australians have never had the chance to properly vote on AUKUS. The major parties haven’t allowed them, Bernard Keane writes in Crickey.
It was foisted...