Canada’s quiet and non-magnetic submarines
Movies taught everybody how submarines get caught: one boat pings, everyone listens, and the quietest crew wins. That part is real. But sound is...
South Korea can now help AUKUS
By Nathaniel England*
Canada’s decision to select Europe’s TKMS to replace its Victoria-class submarines has created a golden opportunity for Australia. South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean...
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...