Australians need to work closely with US on N-subs
Australians should now work shoulder to shoulder with Americans in mastering the building of nuclear submarines while Royal Australian Navy sailors serve on deployed...
US should use carrier-based anti-submarine warfare
By Ben DiDonato*
With the return of great power competition, the threat posed by hostile submarines has garnered renewed attention. Russia’s submarine fleet in particular...
AUKUS N-subs have major downside
Any new submarine for defending Australia should be built around our experience. Our needs are idiosyncratic. The Defence Strategic Review should find that Australia’s...
Multiple paths to nuclear submarines
By Marcus Hellyer*
I’ve often thought that Australia’s submarine transition is a wicked problem, perhaps one of the most wicked in the public policy arena....
Buying the wrong submarine
By Peter Layton*
Nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) are technically incredible. They are akin to the Australian Navy’s conventionally powered Collins Class submarines but much faster,...
US submarine strategy’s responsive moves
The US is designing its SSN(X) next-generation nuclear attack submarine in a significant shift from procuring Virginia class SSNs to a new class by...
US pushes faster Aussie N-sub plan
Australia will engage with US plans to accelerate the construction of AUKUS nuclear submarines, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as Tony Abbott calls for...
Noisy Collins makes N-subs more urgent
Australia's most recently retired navy chief warns the country's ageing Collins Class submarine fleet will become easier to detect in an increasingly crowded maritime neighbourhood...
AUKUS and submarine proliferation
By Collin Koh*
This policy brief from the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network reviews nuclear submarine acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region since AUKUS was first announced last...
What exactly is AUKUS?
By Alessio Patalano*
Since its announcement a year ago, the AUKUS agreement linking the US and the UK to Australia’s ambition to acquire nuclear-powered submarines...