US subs in WA ‘could have nuclear weapons’
US submarines that rotate through Western Australia under the AUKUS pact could be carrying nuclear weapons and Australia should welcome that, according to a...
Japan closer to nuclear submarines
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Friday reiterated that Japan is not ruling out acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, days after a U.S. Navy official offered...
R & M hits US submarines hard
Maintenance delays for U.S. Navy attack subs have resulted in boats that are frequently idle in port when they should be at sea, Defense...
Experts look at AUKUS progress
15th September 2026 marks five years since the announcement of the AUKUS trilateral defence partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United...
US shows value of uncrewed vessels
By Tom Sharpe*
This month (September 2026), Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced it had recovered an American uncrewed submarine at the entrance to the Strait of...
Australian Mogami production underway
Production of the long-lead items for the first of Australia’s Mogami-class frigates has begun in Japan, Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy has revealed,...
Small Chinese frigate big problem for Taiwan
China’s navy has introduced a new guided-missile frigate designed for coastal as well as open-sea attacks after 20 years in the making, according to...
AI and space fill maritime surveillance gap
By Vincent Kyle Parada and Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano*
Maritime surveillance has become Southeast Asia’s critical capability gap. Artificial intelligence combined with orbital surveillance technologies...
Doomsday Russian sub goes to sea
The special-purpose nuclear submarine Khabarovsk, designed to carry the Poseidon nuclear-powered giga-torpedo, is currently undergoing sea trials in the White Sea, the Barents Observer...
Struggling with Russian subs: UK Navy chief
Britain and its allies are struggling to contain Russian submarines, the First Sea Lord has said, in an unusually direct assessment given in an...