Extending US N-subs’ life
On June 4, the US Navy laid the keel for USS District of Columbia, the first of its new Columbia-class nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines, at...
New Government and submarine program
By Dr John Bruni and CDRE Pat Tyrrell OBE RN (Ret’d)*
Australia made international headlines when it agreed to the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. But,...
N-sub program could run till 2060s
By Marcus Hellyer and Andrew Nicholls*
In our most recent article, we argued that the Australian government should widen the aperture of the lens through which...
Plugging the n-sub gap
Defence Minister Richard Marles has not ruled out buying ready-made nuclear submarines to plug the gap in Australia’s defence capabilities, as he sought to...
IAEA wants more work on n-subs
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has warned there is a lot of technical work to be done before Australia's AUKUS submarine...
Broader approach to undersea warfare
By Marcus Hellyer*
The hottest topic in Australia’s defence community right now is how to develop the Royal Australian Navy’s submarine capability. The decision to...
Building overseas best n-sub option
By Marcus Hellyer and Andrew Nicholls*
In our previous post, we considered the likelihood of the US providing Australia with Virginia-class submarines this decade. Doing so would...
Borrow a boat would quickly give Australia nuclear-powered subs
By Tom Lewis*
(This article is written for a general, rather than expert naval, audience)
The path to Australia acquiring nuclear submarines is perhaps being portrayed...
US admiral to lead AUKUS partnership
The admiral who oversees U.S. attack submarine construction has been appointed to lead the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) partnership that promises to develop a...
Nuclear subs this decade?
By Andrew Nicholls and Marcus Hellyer*
In 2009, Kevin Rudd’s government decided to increase Australia’s submarine capability. It wrote in its defence white paper: ‘The Government will...