Two nuclear submarines in UK port
Two nuclear-powered attack submarines came in to HM Naval Base Clyde on Friday, a United States Navy Virginia-class boat arriving in the morning and...
New magnetism submarine detection method
Finding a submarine beneath the ocean is one of the more difficult surveillance tasks in modern warfare. Sonar and sonobuoys can listen for underwater...
New shipyard for big Virginia-class parts
Anduril is establishing a new shipyard to manufacture parts for Virginia-class submarines in Baltimore County, Md., the company and the White Houseannounced, Breaking Defense...
UK to build submarine dry docks
Chancellor John Healey will announce today that, subject to a commercial competition, the floating dry docks required for RN nuclear submarine maintenance at Faslane...
UK’s Vanguard-class subs over-stretched
Four boats is the minimum the Royal Navy’s nuclear deterrence mission allows: one on patrol, one working up or returning, one in short maintenance,...
S. Korea maps N-subs role
As South Korea moves ahead with plans to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, the debate is shifting from whether the country needs them to where and...
The AUKUS sovereignty conundrum
By Michael Hickey and James Fitzgerald*
Australia must exploit ambiguity in its sovereignty narrative to enable AUKUS. The Garrett Enquiry is energising the Australian public...
First AUKUS steel set for 2027
The Defence Nuclear Enterprise 2026 Update to Parliament published this week confirms that steel will be cut on the first RN SSN-AUKUS submarine in...
Russia’s new black-hole submarine
The Project 667 Lada (Lada-class) submarines were originally intended to replace the older Project 636 (Kilo-class) ships. The idea was to create a new...
‘Blank cheque for secretive AUKUS’
By Dave Sweeney*
This article is republished from Independent Australia under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article.
Five years ago, the Australian political landscape...