OPINION | Getting real about the schedule for Australia’s future frigates
The government has announced an 18-month delay to the Royal Australian Navy’s Hunter-class future frigate program. Is this a sign that the project is...
The government has announced an 18-month delay to the Royal Australian Navy’s Hunter-class future frigate program. Is this a sign that the project is...
In my last post, I looked at the latest information on the life-of-type extension program for the Royal Australian Navy’s Collins-class submarines....
The Royal Australian Navy is in the early stages of a long transition that is notable for its strategic risk. Both its core surface and subsurface combat...
Media reports this week have claimed that Prime Minister Scott Morrison has commissioned a Defence Department review into potential alternatives to...
The most often quoted line of the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu is that, “supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance...
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...
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...
There have been claims in the media and by various commentators that the cost of Australia’s future submarine program has gone up. The Defence Department...
[caption id="attachment_69659" align="alignnone" width=""]Henderson Shipyard, Western Australia[/caption]Yesterday from the election campaign trail...
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