Canberra-based Raytheon Australia has been awarded a $277 million contract extension to continue managing the Ryal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) Collins-class combat system. This extension allows Raytheon Australia’s local team and local and international partners such as General Dynamics Mission Systems…
The first cohort of skilled submarine workers from Port Adelaide-based ASC Pty Limited has departed for Pearl Harbor in Hawaii for comprehensive sustainment training on nuclear-powered submarines. Around 30 skilled ASC workers are the first to deploy to the Pearl…
The Royal Australian Navy’s six Collins-class submarines will now not be armed with the Tomahawk strike weapon, and will also forego their planned optronics upgrade. The Government’s decisions on the life-of-type extension program have been informed by advice from Defence…
The UK Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, has effectively ruled out an Astute-class submarine as the nuclear-powered replacement for Australia’s six Collins-class conventional submarines. Speaking at the commissioning of HMS Anson in the UK, Mr Wallace noted that…
Australia’s sovereign defence company ASC is opening a new science and technology hub in Adelaide’s city centre at Lot Fourteen, to form new research and business connections that can enhance Collins-class submarine sustainment and their Life of Type Extension (LOTE).…
Minister for Defence Peter Dutton has announced the RAN’s Collins-class submarine fleet will be fitted with new optronic masts to replace its ageing optical periscope masts under a contract worth $381 million. The new masts will not require a hull…