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RAN officers in US N-sub training

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Three Royal Australian Navy (RAN) officers began the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Officer Basic Course (SOBC), known commonly as “Submarine School,” where they will learn...

Coast Guard seeks bigger Pacific role

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Admiral Linda L. Fagan, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), has been visiting allies in the South Pacific – such as Samoa,...

Naval lessons from Ukraine after two years

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In year two of the Ukraine war, the naval domain continued to be a lower-tier area of conflict — and yet, both sides stepped...

Navy’s gangways and bases open for Navy Week

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The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, AO, RAN, has opened the Navy’s gangways and bases, proudly launching Navy Week for 2024. Over the...

Threats: we must not avoid the ‘China’ word

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By Alex Bristow* Writing in The Australian Financial Review on 5 February (republished with permission by ANI), my former ASPI colleague, Jennifer Parker, put an...

What has to be overcome

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By Peter Layton* Australia’s naval surface combatant fleet is in trouble. The eight Anzac frigates are worn out after three decades of Middle Eastern adventures...

Skills shortage threatens expansion

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A skills shortage could derail the federal government’s ambitious plan to modernise the navy by building a fleet of frigates and uncrewed drone boats...

It’s corvette time again

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By Tom Lewis* Once again Australia prepares for war, this time with a new class of warship, called light frigates or corvettes. They have just...

Navy gets bigger but is it enough?

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By Malcolm Davis* The Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant review has laid out plans for the Royal Australian Navy to grow larger, with more firepower in...

ANZAC SSN: not so optimal pathway

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By Peter Briggs* Doubts about America’s capacity to build and then sell to Australia a series of Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) under the AUKUS agreement...