RNZN leads drug bust
A RNZN-led Combined Task Force has achieved another successful counter-narcotics operation, with the seizure of illicit drugs that would otherwise have been sold to...
Australian submarine choices
The political and strategic ramifications of the AUKUS pact announced in September continue to reverberate but the details of how Australia will actually acquire...
Australia already has a submarine capability gap
By Marcus Hellyer*
At Senate estimates hearings on 24 March of this year, the independent Senator Malcolm Roberts bluntly asked Defence Department officials, ‘If the...
US Navy ships enters the Black Sea
A U.S. naval command ship entered the Black Sea on Thursday as part of NATO manoeuvres that drew a warm welcome from Ukraine but...
A first for unmanned vessels
Task Force 59 integrated MANTAS T-12 unmanned surface vessels with manned U.S. patrol craft and Bahrain Defense Force maritime assets during its New Horizon...
Leaders of sub that ran aground fired
The leaders of a Navy submarine that struck an undersea mountain last month in the South China Sea were fired last week (Nov 2021),...
Sharpest minds to the submarine task
By Brendan Nicholson*
A multi-disciplinary taskforce is recruiting ‘Australia’s sharpest minds’ to tackle the herculean task of providing the Royal Australian Navy with eight nuclear-powered...
A stronger Navy faster
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has released a new report 'Building a stronger Navy, faster', which recommends a path forward to address the growing...
A project-delivery problem with a strategic fix
By ‘Sebastian’*
The sudden announcement of AUKUS and the plan for Australia to have nuclear submarines is at its heart a means to provide a...
Australia needs nuclear submarines now, not later
By Tom Lewis*
In the debate which has ensued since the federal government decided not to continue with the French submarine contract, it has become...