USS Nimitz to be recycled
On December 9, the Navy released its 30-year shipbuilding plan. With the ambitious goal of building a 546-ship fleet by 2051, the plan calls...
US Navy accepts delivery of USS Canberra
The US Navy has accepted delivery of the future USS Canberra (LCS 30) Dec. 21 at Austal USA in Mobile, Naval Sea Systems Command...
Taiwan should be in RIMPAC: US law
Taiwan should be invited to the world's largest naval exercise next year, according to the US' 2022 Defence spending blueprint signed into law by...
Ties with Japan send China a message
By Peter Jennings*
One of the strengths in Australia’s relationship with Japan is our shared ability to deliver substance as opposed to verbal bombast unmoored...
Second-hand Japanese boats worth a look
By Bradley Perrett*
Australia may have a way of very cheaply and quickly expanding its submarine force, improving its defences this decade and preparing for...
Sirius home for final time
It was a bittersweet moment for onlookers at Fleet Base West on December 2 when HMAS Sirius returned home. Sirius was sailing into its home...
Warning time running out: Beazley
By Brendan Nicholson*
Former defence minister Kim Beazley has delivered a sobering comparison between how Australia dealt with the lead-up to World War II and...
DARPA and DSTG – and a case of espionage
By Clive Williams*
When I worked at the Australian embassy in Washington in the early 1990s, I would sometimes accompany scientists from our Defence Science...
Port Darwin: lost opportunities
By John Coyne*
It seems we’ll be waiting until at least sometime in the first quarter of 2022 for the government to decide on the...
N-test veterans denied medals
Britain's Cold War nuclear test veterans have been denied medals for their role in nuclear weapon tests. About 22,000 servicemen took part in the UK's...