AUKUS: engage youth
By Amanda McCumber*
Despite a push for openness and transparency in communicating the Australian National Defence posture, one group the Australian government is failing to...
Latest Taigei Class sub launched
A day after the British submarine Agamemnon was launched, the fifth Taigei class submarine for the Japanese Maritime Defence Force was named and launched...
Latest Astute Class sub launched
On 3 October the Royal Navy’s latest hunter-killer submarine was launched. Agamemnon, the penultimate Astute-class submarine was launched at BAE Systems’ facility in Barrow,...
More submariner training in the UK
On 26 September it was announced that hundreds of Australian submariners and civilians will receive specialist nuclear skills through training from Royal Navy engineers....
Dual Singaporean Navy submarine commissioning
On 25 September the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) commissioned the submarines RSS Invincible & RSS Impeccable in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister...
US subs and ships effort needs new money
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro warned congressional appropriators that numerous high-profile shipbuilding efforts — Columbia and Virginia-class submarines as well as certain aircraft carriers...
Boundary-pushing SNN AUKUS
The UK’s upcoming fleet of submarines, the SSN-AUKUS, promises to push the boundaries of naval warfare when it enters service in the late 2030s,...
Answering the AUKUS critics
Three years have passed since the United States, Australia and United Kingdom announced on September 15 2021 that they would enter into a security...
Singapore’s new submarine
The homecoming ceremony for the Republic of Singapore Navy’s (RSN) Invincible class submarine, Invincible, took place on 13 September at RSS Singapura - Changi...
Harris or Trump, AUKUS continues
By Kim Beazley*
A former commander of Australia’s submarine fleet once described to me the advantage of nuclear-powered submarines over conventional boats using a...