United Shipbuilding Corporation’s (USC) Sevmash Shipbuilding has completed construction on the Russian Navy nuclear-powered submarine Knyaz Vladimir. The 170- by ..
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FEATURE | Nuclear-armed submarines and US defence strategy: the future of the maritime deterrent
Today is an age of acceleration, a time when Moore’s Law is creating profound changes at diminishing intervals, making it difficult to anticipate strategic, social and ..
FEATURE | The future of China’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine force
China finally achieved an operational underwater nuclear capability in recent years, almost six decades after it first launched its nuclear-powered ballistic missile ..
FEATURE | Undersea deterrence and strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific
Amid rapid geopolitical change at the start of the 2020s, unfolding now in the Covid-19 crisis, nuclear weapons manifest grim continuity with the previous century. ..
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 ..
Sea trials begin for France’s first Barracuda-class sub
The French Ministry of Defence and Naval Group have begun conducting sea trials of the future FS Suffren, the first of six Barracuda-class nuclear-powered attack ..
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 ..
FEATURE | Taiwan’s submarine project now underway
On May 9, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen supervised a ground breaking ceremony for a new submarine construction facility at the China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSBC) yard…
FEATURE | Taiwan submarine project breaks surface
Taiwan’s Republic of China Navy (ROCN) is, for the most part, a balanced and well-equipped force, but the service currently operates just four submarines, namely…