The Royal Australian Navy has joined an exclusive group of nations capable of deploying Tomahawk cruise missiles, marking a transformative moment in the nation’s naval history. The breakthrough came as…
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The Australian Government is to establish a consolidated Commonwealth-owned Defence Precinct at Western Australia’s Henderson shipyard, calling the project “the critical next step in delivering continuous naval shipbuilding in Western Australia.” It will also mark a major milestone on the AUKUS pathway as Australia develops the capability to own, operate and sustain conventionally‑armed, nuclear‑powered submarines.
The project is being carried out under a cooperation agreement between the...
The Royal Navy and its AUKUS partners successfully controlled uncrewed vessels in Australia from a command center in Portugal, spanning a distance of over 10,000 miles. The demonstration marks a…
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Senior Australian and U.S. officials pledged to enhance force deployments, defense industrial base cooperation and regional security...
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The Australian government signed a $2.2 billion four-year contract with national submarine builder ASC last week to keep Canberra’s existing Collins-class submarines in service through the 2030s.
When making the announcement on Saturday, Australia’s...
SYDNEY, July 27 (Reuters) – Australia said on Saturday it had signed a A$2.2 billion ($1.4 billion) four-year contract with state-owned submarine builder ASC to upgrade the navy’s Collins class submarines. The “sustainment…
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The Navy is standing up a new maritime industrial base program office and has tapped one of its career civil servants to take the helm.
Jay Stefany, who...
There are a lot of moving parts involved in building a sovereign Australian nuclear submarine capability and 28 personnel from Australian shipbuilder ASC are now at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF). The team arrived under the Australia, United Kingdom and United States (AUKUS) enhanced trilateral security partnership. They will be trained and certified on various aspects of submarine maintenance to support the AUKUS Pillar 1 program that is...
US naval shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and UK defence technology company the Babcock International Group have formed a new joint venture and entity to accelerate the development of critical sovereign capability for the AUKUS conventional armed, nuclear-powered submarine program. H&B Defence will combine nuclear submarine and shipbuilding experience from Australia, the United Kingdom,z and […]
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