Australian businesses get shipbuilding contracts
BAE Systems Maritime Australia has announced businesses in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia will deliver products into the prototyping phase of the Hunter...
Submarines and the capacity of the Public Service
By Benjamin Cherry-Smith*
The announcement of the AUKUS partnership and that Australia will be acquiring nuclear-powered submarines was presented as a “fait accompli.” There was...
The dying moments of HMAS Sydney
By Tom Lewis*
This article first appeared in Quadrant and is republished here with the kind permission of the author, naval historian Dr Tom Lewis,...
Submarine escape exercise success
The Royal Australian Navy has successfully completed its annual submarine search and rescue exercise off the coast of Western Australia, along with international participants...
HMAS Stalwart commissioned
The Royal Australian Navy commissioned its latest ship into service on November 13 at Fleet Base West, Rockingham, Western Australia, the Department of Defence...
Fourth Scorpene sub for India
The fourth submarine of the Project – 75, Yard 11878 has been delivered to the Indian Navy (9 Nov 2021). Project – 75 includes...
Indian Ocean Naval Symposium
The 7th edition of Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) Conclave of Chiefs was hosted by French Navy at Paris from 15 - 16 Nov 21.
The...
India’s first stealth missile destroyer
Y 12704 (Visakhapatnam), the lead ship of Project 15B stealth guided missile destroyers being built at Mazgaon Docks Limited (MDL), was delivered to the...
80 years on: only body from HMAS Sydney identified
Eighty years to the day after the Australian warship HMAS Sydney II sunk off the West Australian coast, the only body recovered from the...
Appear where you are not expected
By LCDR Chris Watson, RAN*
This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2019, Issue 2, in December 2019.
‘Ask a question’. Academician Lin Woong...