Australia’s role in critical space domain awareness (SDA) is becoming a major mission for the defence force. Australia has long provided a ‘suitable piece of real estate’ as part of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing community …
Australia has a new opportunity to contribute to countering Chinese long-range missile threats by establishing a sovereign space-based early warning and tracking capability. A first step would be to invest in new types of sensors …
Sea state HMS Queen Elizabeth has returned home from its seven-month maiden deployment to the Indo-Pacific. The aircraft carrier led Carrier Strike Group 21, which cumulatively covered around 500,000 nautical miles, visited more than 40 …
Sea state German frigate FGS Bayern joined Japan’s annual large-scale joint exercise alongside vessels from the Australian, Canadian and US navies, marking Germany’s first exercise in the Indo-Pacific in two decades. During Australia’s last maritime …
Sea state Australia has commissioned the second of its two Supply-class auxiliary oil replenishment ships, HMAS Stalwart. The two Spanish-built ships will be stationed on opposite sides of Australia, with HMAS Supply, commissioned in April, …