AUKUS: N-subs ‘costly futility’
The decision for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines has taken on a life of its own, divorced from disciplined considerations such as cost, effectiveness,...
Rationale for Australian N-subs
By Mark Watson*
Vice Admiral William Joseph Houston is a thoughtful and experienced United States naval officer, entrusted with command of perhaps the most potent US...
Undersea drone program dead in the water
The US Navy’s Snakehead program is looking dead in the water — again. Congressional appropriators in the fiscal 2023 defense spending bill backed the service’s...
Newest French N-sub enters active duty
The French MoD announced that the French Navy's Suffren nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) and its blue crew completed their first operational deployment with the...
Australia on track to buy N-subs from US: PM
Australia is on track to announce plans to buy new nuclear-powered submarines from the US and UK, despite scepticism in Washington, the Albanese government...
US senators’ AUKUS N-sub reservations
Two key US lawmakers sent a warning shot to President Joe Biden over concerns that the AUKUS trilateral security agreement could imperil America’s submarine...
Importance of the N-subs program
Opportunities and challenges involved in Australia’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines were discussed at the 11th biennial Submarine Institute of Australia conference hosted in Canberra...
Ghost Shark: unmanned and under water
Anduril Industries and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) announced that the Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (XLUUV) will be named "Ghost Shark".
The company previously...
Royal Navy orders ‘crewless’ submarine
On 1 December the Royal Navy today ordered its first ‘crewless’ submarine. In two years the Cetus, named after a mythological sea monster, will...
Netherlands’ submarines: next step
The Dutch "Walrus-class submarine replacement program" reached a new milestone today: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) of the Netherlands submitted the request for quotation...