Submarines

Conventional and remote/autonomous subsurface vessels

AUKUS: ‘hubris’ still shocks some

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On 15 September 2021, Prime Minister Scott Morrison joined his British counterpart Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden to announce AUKUS. In so...

AUKUS: a US or UK submarine?

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Last week, Defence Minister Richard Marles returned from a successful visit to the United Kingdom. At the top of his agenda was a series...

Sunk N-sub ‘posed no danger’

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Recently released documents about the sinking of attack submarine USS Thresher (SSN-573) show the lengths the Navy took to assure the public that the...

First N-sub to reopen to the public

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The world’s first nuclear-powered submarine will reopen to the public this Friday, the Navy announced, one year after closing for a $36 million refurbishment,...

Australians to train on UK N-subs

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Royal Australian Navy submariners are to train aboard the newly commissioned nuclear submarine HMS Anson, Australian Defence Magazine reports. The announcement comes as Australian Deputy...

No off-shelf N-sub deal for Australia

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Australia has close to zero chance of getting a submarine from the United States’ current program, experts say, as yet another report shows the...

Workforce is challenge to the US Columbia-Class program

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The Program Executive Office (PEO) Strategic Submarines, Rear Admiral Scott Pappano, recently spoke at a USAir Force Association Mitchell Institute forum on the challenges...

China-Taiwan submarine imbalance

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Even to laypeople, the odds of a China-versus-Taiwan underwater faceoff seem unbalanced, VOA News reports. China’s submarine force: 66 boats in 2020 with 76 expected...

New Russian submarine revealed

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Nuclear weapons are Russia's ultimate insurance policy against NATO intervention in Ukraine. As their importance is emphasised, an ambitious new ballistic missile submarine has...

N Korean sub’s first deployment

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On August 16th, the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) (North Korea) confirmed that its first ship-in-class KSS III submarine, ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho, has...