Inside France’s newest nuclear submarine
Leading Navies are secretive about the full capabilities of their submarines. In a rare privilege, Naval News has been allowed aboard the French Navy's...
N-subs: militarism lacking strategy
By Sian Troth*
Australia’s intentions to acquire nuclear powered submarines raise an important question: what are the submarines for? It appears that strategic rationale has...
The second-hand option for N-subs
By Marcus Hellyer*
In case you’ve just arrived from Mars, the Australian government has announced it will acquire, with the assistance of the United States...
Do the maths, and build subs in US
The first of anything is expensive. Theodore Wright studied this in the 1930s and found a mathematical relationship between how many of a thing...
Biden warned on weapons-grade uranium
There is growing pressure on the new Aukus partners to scrap plans to use weapons-grade uranium on submarines, the Guardian reports.
A group of former...
In defence of AUKUS
By Oriana Skylar Mastro and Zack Cooper*
When Barack Obama announced the rebalance to Asia in 2011, he also revealed the rotational deployment of US...
Australian industry and Australian N-subs
By Brent Clark*
The Morrison Government fundamentally changed the approach to Australia’s submarine acquisition with the announcement that the Government would be terminating the Naval...
Will all submarines be visible and obsolete by 2040?
Australia’s proposed nuclear-powered submarines could be obsolete by the time they hit the water in the 2040s due to new technologies making underwater vessels...
Subs: Australia in new strategic league
By Ron Huisken*
In a world largely inured to shocks, the announcement that Australia, in partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom, would...
Big impact on AU-EU relations
Australia’s decision to terminate a A$90 billion defence contract with France to forge a new defence alliance with the US and UK was a...