There’s a common rule of thumb in militaries known as “the rule of threes”: for every three platforms you have, you can deploy one. This is how the ..
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FEATURE | The Royal Australian Navy needs a support ship, not a fixed base at Manus Island
Commentary on equipping the Australian Defence Force tends to focus on high-end combat capabilities such as frigates, fighter aircraft and armoured vehicles. Much less is ..
FEATURE | Has the cost of Australia’s future submarines gone up? Part 2
In the first part of this series, we saw that by late 2015, before Australia’s Defence Department had received industry responses in the competitive evaluation ..