Does Japan expect an alliance with Australia as part of a submarine deal?
By Hugh White*
WHAT does Japan want? This is much more important to the subs decision than the question many people seem to think matters most, which is what China wants us to do, Hugh White writes.
Rolls-Royce reveals future shore-control centre to control unmanned ships
Rolls-Royce unveiled its vision of the land-based control centres that we believe will remotely monitor and control the unmanned ships of the future.
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Canada’s national shipbuilding strategy ‘bizarre’
DAVIE yard has offered to refit existing ships available at steep discounts due to slowdown in oil industry. The nearly 50-year-old Canadian Coast Guard...
Nuclear aircraft carriers: number one asymmetric military advantage
THERE has been a lot of talk lately by senior Pentagon officials that the US military is losing its long-held advantages in high-end warfighting...
An object lesson? First UK nuclear ballistic missile submarine program
THE recently published history of the British submarine service since 1945, The Silent Deep by Peter Hennessy and James Jinks, contains much food for thought for those interested in Australia’s future submarine capability, James Goldbrick writes.
Russia strategic nuclear submarine returns to base from Barents Sea mission
THE crew of Russia’s VLADIMIR MONOMAKH strategic nuclear-powered submarine has completed its planned mission in the Barents Sea and arrived at the main base of the Northern Fleet’s submarine forces - Gadzhiyevo (Murmansk region), the fleet's press service told TASS this week (March 2016). Transparency as strategy in the South China Sea
The South China Sea is an opaque, low-information environment. Greater transparency would lead to greater stability and access, five leading defence academics write. High stakes for Tokyo in Australian submarines
If Japan secures the Australian submarine deal, it looks likely that Australia–Japan relations will move up several notches, especially in the security and defence realms, and the US will be a strategic winner, Purnendra Jain, of the University of Adelaide, writes.
Oiler shipbuilding program: background and issues for Congress
By Ronald O'Rourke Specialist in Naval Affairs, Congressional Research Service. March 15, 2016
The John Lewis (TAO-205) class oiler shipbuilding program, previously known as...
Frigate replacement short list on the way
Rand Corp., a think tank, is due to conclude a short list of competitors this month for Australia’s tender for nine frigates to replace the Anzac warship, Hervé Boy, a DCNS business development manager said on March 16, according to Business News.