After the long-awaited AUKUS submarine announcement, ASPI director Bec Shrimpton and senior analyst Malcolm Davis give their views on the decisions unveiled in San Diego this week. In conversation with ASPI’s David Wroe, Bec and …
The announcement of the agreed pathway for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) under the AUKUS deal provides clarity about how and when Australia will have this important capability. The process begins with an increased …
Speaking at a summit in San Diego on Monday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a decades-long strategy to deliver the most costly defence project in Australia’s history. New details of the AUKUS defence and security pact …
It’s been a big day for Australia–UK relations. Sandwiched between the release of the ‘refresh’ of the integrated review in London and the AUKUS submarine announcement in San Diego, a bilateral partnership growing in warmth …
Australia’s nuclear-powered, conventionally armed submarines will be of a new British design, but their reactors, combat systems and heavyweight torpedoes will all be American. After 18 months of intense consultations, details of this massive joint …