Anduril Industries has announced Copperhead, which it describes as a high-speed, software-defined family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) built for delivery by larger autonomous systems. Or torpedoes, to use an older expression. Victory at sea will require large fleets of…
Defence will upgrade communication systems on Royal Australian Navy ships under the $200 million Project SEA1442 Ph.5 program with Brisbane-based Boeing Defence Australia. Brisbane will be the main hub for design and development work for this project which extends Boeing’s…
Canberra-based Lockheed Martin Australia has been awarded a contract extension until the end of 2025 to continue sustaining the Aegis Combat System in the Royal Australian Navy’s Hobart-class guided missile destroyers. Although Defence and the company haven’t disclosed a figure,…
London-based Rolls-Royce has signed the eight-year, £9 billion ($18 billion) Unity contract which brings together all elements of research and technology, design, manufacture and in-service support of the nuclear reactors that power the Royal Navy’s fleet of submarines, including the…
The Royal Australian Navy has achieved a major milestone with Australia becoming only the third country in the world to acquire and fire a Tomahawk cruise missile. HMAS Brisbane successfully fired a Tomahawk missile during a test and evaluation activity conducted…
The RAN will arm itself with Raytheon SM2 Block IIIC and SM6 missiles under a $7 billion agreement with the United States. The SM2 Block IIIC and SM6 are said by Defence to be the most advanced air and missile…
The first seven RAN enlisted sailors have graduated from the United States Navy Nuclear Power School. The seven sailors, alongside a third group of RAN officers who also graduated, are the pioneers towards Australia establishing a sovereign conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine…
The US Navy Virginia-class submarine USS Hawaii (SSN 776) has arrived at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia to undergo Australia’s first nuclear-powered Submarine Tendered Maintenance Period (STMP). She joined the US submarine maintenance ship USS Emory S Land which is…
Adelaide-based KBR has achieved the Operative Date contractual milestone for the Capability Life Cycle Management of the Royal Australian’s Navy’s (RAN) Amphibious and Replenishment Ship fleet. Under the new National Defence Strategy (NDS) the amphibious ships in particular have become…
The RAN destroyer HMAS Sydney has conducted a successful firing of a Standard Missile 6, or SM6, representing a step-change in the lethality, air and missile defence, and long-range strike capability of Navy’s surface combatant fleet. The SM6 will be progressively deployed…