Subs: why alienate your main trading partner?
IF YOU you choose to believe the diplomatic communiques, what's about to become the most vital symbolic issue in our relationship with China wasn't even discussed when Malcolm Turnbull travelled to Beijing last week. It's not the South China Sea, internet spying, or even the balance of trade. It's which company will be responsible for building our new submarine fleet that will be the country's largest defence contract ever, Nicholas Stuart writes. US Navy leads 30-nation maritime exercise in Middle East
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South China Sea concerns should embrace submarine warfare
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter is in Asia this week, making stops in India and the Philippines to bolster relationships that the United States...
Is Australia the key to US containment of China?
Domestic factors may lead Australia to take a more active role in challenging Chinese assertiveness, according to political scientist Dr. Robert O. Freedman, who...
$90m naval training centre opened
A state-of-the-art simulation facility has been opened in Sydney that will enhance training for Royal Australian Navy technical sailors.
Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim...
Australian Naval vessels to become dive wrecks
Decommissioned Australian naval vessels Tobruk (pictured) and Sydney will be offered for the creation of dive wrecks, Defence Minister Senator Marise Payne announced. Australia ‘may sell’ shipbuilder
Australia may privatize state-owned shipbuilder ASC Pty Ltd., people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal, as decisions near on a lucrative...
US Navy set to buy AWESUM miniature sub-launched UAVs
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THE US Navy’s next generation of landing system for its Gerald Ford-class aircraft carrier successfully trapped its first aircraft last week How the US Marines fight
The MAGTF (pronounced MAG-TAF) is the soul of how the Marines organize themselves, from the 500 Marine special purpose units forward deployed in Europe,...