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The AUKUS Submarine Crisis Is Already Here

U.S. and U.K. nuclear-powered subs for Australia, a tougher deterrent against China, and a “free and open Indo-Pacific.” -On ...
Austal USA entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC) during the 2025 ...
This piece unpacks how China’s undersea force is evolving from crude Soviet-inspired diesel boats into a “good enough” fleet ...
The Australian defence establishment is doubling down on AUKUS, but for critics there remain more questions than answers.
The Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean, a Collins-class boat, arrives in Hobart, Australia, on April 1, 2021. (Leo Baumgartner/Australian Defence Force via ...
The Trump administration has provoked consternation in the Australian political and military establishment after this week announcing a Pentagon review of plans under the AUKUS military pact to sell ...
One in 10 applicants to the AUKUS nuclear submarine project is being rejected on security grounds, including because they ...
Guam recently hosted U.S., Japanese, Indian, Australian and South Korean navies for multilateral exercises, including ...
SINKING FEELING: The Australian Navy’s troubled Collins-class submarine force has fallen to just one operational boat after the HMAS Farncomb was sent to maintenance following the electrical failure ...
Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries has been awarded a contract from the Australian government to develop and run the new Australian Submarine Supplier Qualification (AUSSQ) pilot program ...
USS Vermont, a Virginia class fast-attack submarine, quietly leaves WA after a local pure water system was tested on it and ...
Another major milestone has been achieved for NuShip Hunter with the successful factory acceptance test (FAT) of the towed ...