Submarines

Conventional and remote/autonomous subsurface vessels

Report on Columbia-class submarine

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Australia should axe costly N-subs

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By Henry Sokolski* Earlier this month, the Australian government made its first payment of $500 million toward eventually obtaining US nuclear-powered submarines under the 2021...

Report to US Congress on AUKUS and Indo-Pacific security

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On 3 March the US Congressional research Service released an updated ‘In Focus’ report on AUKUS and Indo-Pacific Security. It stated: In 2021, Australia, the...

Australia’s AUKUS Submarine Industry Strategy

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On 5 March the Australian Submarine Agency updated Australia’s AUKUS Submarine Industry Strategy. In doing so it stated that: Australia’s AUKUS Submarine Industry Strategy outlines...

Japan orders fourth Taigei-class sub

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The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has commissioned the fourth of its Taigei-class diesel-electric attack submarines (SSK), which feature better detection and anti-detection capabilities...

The case for UK’s nuclear naval upgrade

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In this article, we counter some of the arguments frequently presented by those campaigning for the UK to abandon its nuclear deterrent, Navy Lookout...