Senior AUKUS defence leaders attend an Integrated Battle Problem 23.3 exercise briefing in Sydney in November 2023. At the exercise, the navies tested capabilities for critical underwater infrastructure protection – a key underwater capability workstrand within AUKUS Pillar 2. Credit: Commonwealth of Australia/Department of Defence.
Details have been set out for four workstrands being developed, within Pillar 2 of the AUKUS trilateral strategic defence and security partnership, to generate new underwater battlespace capability for the Australian, UK, and US navies. One new capability priority is capacity to launch and recover uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) from submarine torpedo tubes, Navy News reports.
