Canada chooses German submarines
Canada has chosen a German defence company to build its navy's new submarine fleet, in the largest military procurement deal in Canadian history. Prime...
RN’s attack subs not at sea
Tom Sharpe*
None of the Royal Navy’s attack submarines are currently at sea. A fleet of nuclear-powered hunter-killers all tied up alongside or in dock,...
12 UK SSN-AUKUS subs confirmed
The Defence Investment Plan commits the UK to building up to twelve next-generation SSN-AUKUS attack submarines, the same boats Australia will build, with steel...
How Australia’s nuclear submarines will fit
By Malcolm Davis*
There’s a saying about submarine warfare: ‘there are two types of naval vessels – submarines and targets.’ Nuclear-powered submarines, SSNs, are the...
Nuclear subs: learning from South Korea
By Euan Graham*
Australia and South Korea are both acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines, a parallel step-change in their conventional deterrent capability. Though their discrete pathways...
AUKUS: staying in elite submarine group
AUKUS Pillar One will keep Australia in a shrinking group of countries operating submarines in coming decades, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles told the...
China’s submarine-building dominance
By H I Sutton*
More countries are building and operating submarines today than at any point in modern history. Yet amid this global expansion, China...
Canada and Australia’s different submarine paths
By John Harvey*
Canada and Australia are natural comparators: sparsely populated, resource-rich, English-speaking Westminster democracies on continent-sized landmasses, with maritime approaches out of all proportion...
Australian role in Canada’s submarines
Australian specialist battery manufacturer PMB Defence has been selected to supply batteries for one of the contenders for Canada’s new diesel electric submarines, Australian...
AUKUS more than detering China
By Jennifer Parker*
The AUKUS ‘independent’ inquiry opened last week with a familiar list of concerns from long-time critics of the program. Witnesses pointed to...