Turkey’s mini-subs for world market
Turkey is developing mini attack submarines to operate in its surrounding seas and for potential sale on global weapons markets, a weapon at least...
Dismantling a nuclear sub
Nicknamed 'the silent service', nuclear submarines are used to patrol the oceans and seas – armed with numerous weapons and capable of spending months underwater, ForcesNet...
RN’s newest attack sub commissioned
The Royal Navy's newest attack submarine HMS Audacious has been formally commissioned into the fleet during a ceremony at Clyde naval base.
Members of Audacious' company...
Options for Australia’s n-subs
By Pete Sandeman*
The political and strategic ramifications of the AUKUS pact involving the US, UK and Australia continue to reverberate, but the details of...
Second-hand Japanese boats worth a look
By Bradley Perrett*
Australia may have a way of very cheaply and quickly expanding its submarine force, improving its defences this decade and preparing for...
A re-think on AUKUS and subs
By Sam Roggeveen*
I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that AUKUS – the tripartite defence technology agreement which promises to deliver at least eight...
Damaged sub Connecticut arrives in US
The secretive, damaged and pricey fast-attack submarine Connecticut, which struck an undersea mountain in October, pulled into San Diego Sunday after transiting from Guam,...
Implementing Australia’s nuclear submarine program
ASPI is releasing a new report ‘Implementing Australia’s nuclear submarine program’ by Andrew Nicholls, Jackson Dowie and Dr Marcus Hellyer. This report analyses the decision space available...
AUKUS and collective seapower
AUKUS: A personal view by David Hobbs
The AUKUS agreement capitalises on the intimate and long-standing links that exist between the three navies and their nations'...
Brazil’s nuclear submarine project
In a ceremony held on November 25, the Brazilian Navy signed an agreement to start building the hull of its first nuclear-powered submarine (SSN),...