US seeks to boost unmanned fleet
The U.S. Navy sees its future fleet comprised of more than 350 manned ships and about 150 unmanned ships hoping technology means lower operating...
Austal gets $135m US ship contract
The U.S. Navy has awarded Austal USA with a $156 million contract to construct two additional steel-hulled Navajo-class Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ships (T-ATS),...
Russian mega-sub in Baltic
Last autumn, the “Severodvinsk” test launched the submarine version of Russia’s new hypersonic Tsirkon cruise missile in the Barents Sea. It is unclear whether...
RIMPAC mine-hunting exercise
Partner nation teams are using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to assist explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) dive teams by searching for manmade objects that could...
US Navy in Black Sea exercise
U.S. naval forces are taking part in a Black Sea exercise and visiting a Turkish city this week, bringing with them a message of...
China posits AUKUS conspiracy theory
China's government is ramping up its campaign against Australia's push to build nuclear-powered submarines with the United States and the United Kingdom, publishing a...
N-subs: managing the capability gap
By Marcus Hellyer and Andrew Nicholls*
In a previous piece, we examined the broad schedule of Australia’s capability transition from conventional submarines to nuclear-powered submarines...
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...
Australia ‘abusing Chinese restraint’
China has accused Australia of provocation in the South China Sea and said Australia – along with the United States and Canada – must...
North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia
By John Coyne
The Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre’s latest report is a series of articles published in The Strategist over the last six months,...