SSNs: time to think alternatives
By Harlan Ullman*
The program to equip the Royal Australian Navy with nuclear submarines is in trouble. The takeaway: Australia must begin thinking now about...
Co-ordinating anti-submarine warfare
By Jason Lancaster*
Winston Churchill once stated that the only thing that scared him during the Second World War was the subsea aspect during the...
Singapore’s launches fourth Invincible Class submarine
On 22 April the Inimitable, the fourth and final submarine in Singapore’s Type 218SG Invincible class program was launched at the Thyssen Krupp Marine...
Export rules relaxed for AUKUS
The United States Department of Commerce has announced that Australia and the United Kingdom are being provided with a national exemption from the Export...
Uncrewed: the future of undersea war
Manned submarines could become a thing of the past as undersea warfare hots up and technological developments allow drones to take over, Forces Net...
Uncrewed vessels through torpedo tubes
Details have been set out for four workstrands being developed, within Pillar 2 of the AUKUS trilateral strategic defence and security partnership, to generate...
AUKUS sub design deemed mature
The new attack submarine design the United Kingdom and Australia will share through the AUKUS trilateral arrangement is in a “mature” state and will...
RAN officers posted to Virginia-class subs
On 18 April it was announced that three RAN officers will be assigned to US Virginia class submarines based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii...
Work on UK N-sub WA deployment
As part of AUKUS, the United Kingdom and the United States are establishing a rotational presence of one UK Astute class submarine and up...
WWII Fremantle an AUKUS precursor
By Euan Graham
The strategic potential of Submarine Rotational Force-West, the AUKUS initiative that commits the United States and United Kingdom to forward-deploy a small...