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...
HMAS Farncomb will be the first of the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) six Collins-class submarines to undergo sustainment and capability enhancement under a life-of-type extension program being implemented by the Australian government, the Australian Department of Defence (DOD) confirmed earlier this week. The life-of-type extension program is part of the government’s commitment to invest AU$4 […]
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A submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) suffered an electrical fire while underway in an incident that occurred last month, Australia’s ABC News reported on Tuesday, September 26. No details have been provided as to when the fire ignited on board the Collins-class diesel-electric submarine...
India and Australia have an interest in addressing subsurface challenges in their shared maritime domain. As they and other countries in the region grow their submarine fleets, there’s a critical need to develop underwater search and rescue capabilities and considerable scope to work together. In...
Australia’s nuclear-powered, conventionally armed submarines (SSNs) will be of a new British design, but their reactors, combat systems and heavyweight torpedoes will a ..
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UK news outlet The Daily Mail reports that the former chief of the Royal Australian Navy has come under criticism for using a voyage on one of the service’s submari ..
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Kevin Noonan, Marine Manager of Gallagher Insurance Brokers, died last Friday, December 30, aged 88. Mr Noonan was a Marine Underwriter in Australia for most of his worki ..
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The Australian government has finalised negotiations with French shipbuilder the Naval Group to conclude the Attack-class submarine program, Prime Minister Anthony Albane ..
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The following is the March 11, 2022, Congressional Research Service In Focus report AUKUS Nuclear Cooperation.
From the report
On December 1, 2021, President Joseph Biden submitted to Congress an “Agreement among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States for the Exchange of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information.” This In Focus explains the agreement’s substance, as well as provisions of the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) of 1954, as amended (P.L. 83-703; 42 U.S.C. §§2153 et seq.), concerning...
https://news.usni.org/2022/03/16/report-to-congress-on-aukus-nuclear-cooperation
A new submarine base will be built on the east coast of Australia to support the nation’s future nuclear-powered submarines, the Office of Prime Minister Scott Morrison ..
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