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Royal Australian Navy

December 2024

  • Still from footage a drone, captured several years ago, of Australian naval vessels. Sydney. Australia

    Footage of public drone landing on Australian navy ship appears on Chinese social media

    Australia’s defence department has defended the security at a naval base on Sydney’s Garden Island despite drone’s close flight above several warships

November 2024

  • A Virginia class submarine

    Top admiral warns US far behind on building submarines needed to meet Aukus target

    Shipyards will not meet goal of 1.5 boats a year by 2025 to be on track to provide Australia with three Virginia-class submarines, program chief says

October 2024

  • Surfaced submarine underway at sea

    US congress research warns of risk of cost blowouts for Australia in Aukus submarine program

    Report also cast doubt on whether any rigorous cost-benefit analysis was done before the 2021 announcement

September 2024

  • An Australian defence force hat and medal on a bench with beach and water in the background

    ‘I served my country, but I never felt so discarded in my life’: how the ADF pushed its own witness to the brink of suicide

    Exclusive: The ‘key witness’ in the royal commission into defence and veteran suicide tells how the process retraumatised them

August 2024

  • Anthony Albanese and Joe Biden shake hands with a view of the water and a submarine in the background

    Australia indemnifies US and UK ‘against any liability’ from nuclear submarine risks

    New text reveals any party can terminate their collaboration on nuclear-powered boats with just one year’s notice

April 2024

  • National flags of the USA, Australia and Great Britain are seen in front of the USS Asheville, a Los Angeles-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine

    ‘Poison portal’: US and UK could send nuclear waste to Australia under Aukus, inquiry told

    Labor describes claims as ‘fear-mongering’ and says government would not accept waste from other nations

February 2024

  • Defence Industry minister Sen Pat Conroy is escorted around HMAS Sydney DDG in Sydney, Tuesday, February 20, 2024.

    Australian Politics
    Pat Conroy on Labor’s ‘enhanced lethality’ revamp of Australia’s warships – Australian Politics podcast

  • Ships from the Royal Australian Navy, including Anzac class frigates, which will be replaced by the new Hunter class. The navy will also add six new large optionally-crewed surface vessels.

    Australian navy overhaul to double surface fleet and add ‘optionally crewed’ warships

December 2023

  • Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak in front of giant Australian, British and American flags

    Red Sea crisis: why the Albanese government said no to the United States’ warship request

    The reason Anthony Albanese cited for declining sounds very familiar. Almost like the Coalition said much the same thing

May 2023

  • The national flags of the US, Australia and Great Britain in front of the USS Asheville, a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered submarine.

    Aukus ‘expensive’ and not ‘easy to replicate’, Australian officials told foreign diplomats

  • Christmas decorations

    BAE Systems tries to bill Australian taxpayers $55,000 for Christmas cards and decorations

  • An aerial view of the Port Kembla steelworks in Wollongong, NSW

    Port Kembla rally to demand NSW site be ruled out as Aukus nuclear submarine base

  • Vivian Balakrishnan

    Singapore backs Aukus and says Australia could play ‘bigger role’ in regional security

April 2023

  • AE1 enters Cookatoo Island dockyard in Sydney Harbour in June 1914

    ‘We’d like the two periscopes’: the mission to save a piece of Australia’s first submarine

  • Artist's impression of Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles

    Future undersea warfare will rely on uncrewed submarines as ocean becomes ‘transparent’, defence contractor says

March 2023

  • National flags of the US, Australia and the UK in front of the USS Asheville, a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, at HMAS Stirling in WA

    Australia’s $3bn Aukus bill to boost US and UK industry may go even higher

    Defence industry minister Pat Conroy admits ‘scope’ for extra costs and that local shipbuilder ASC may not win contract for British-designed boats
  • Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak standing in front of Aukus podiums in San Diego

    Full Story
    Why is Australia spending up to $368bn on submarines?

    Daniel Hurst breaks down the details of the Aukus agreement
  • Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak announce the Aukus deal in San Diego

    What is the Aukus submarine deal and what does it mean? – the key facts

    The four-phase plan has made nuclear arms control experts nervous … here’s why

October 2021

  • Australia’s first submarine, HMAS AE1

    As ‘metal pirates’ loot seabed treasures, there are fears Australia’s first submarine could be next

    The location of HMAS AE1 is a closely held secret but some worry the first world war wreckage will be found by thieves

April 2021

  • The missing KRI Nanggala-402 submarine, pictured in Indonesia in 2014.

    Indonesia continues search for missing submarine carrying 53 people

    Officials believe vessel may have sunk to depth of 600-700 metres, more than twice depth it was designed for
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