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Australia’s anti-ship missile defence capability is set to be bolstered by a new multi-billion-dollar acquisition. Minister for Defence Peter Dutton has announced over $2 billion would be invested

The lack of any anti-air systems on the Navy’s smallest surface combatants leaves them vulnerable to even the smallest armed drones.

The Morrison Government is pursuing a new autonomous robotic undersea warfare capability for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) to complement its submarine and surface fleet. Defence and Anduril Australia will co-fund a program to design, develop and manufacture Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XLAUV) in Australia for capability assessment and prototyping.

Do you want to weaken and how you would measure success in that regard. >> john, i think weve been pretty clear from the announcement, we do want to make it harder for russia to threaten its neighbors and leave them less able to do that. if you look at whats transpired here in the 62 days or so that ukraine and russia have been involved in this struggle here, russia has -- in terms of its land forces, the land forces have been hit in a very significant way. casualties are pretty substantial. the...

The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) after two decades of development and production have nothing to show for with its $500m to $655m per ship price tag.

The Navy had not expected to mothball the battleships so soon after modernization. 

>> john: lets bring in senator, cotton. senator, this is alarming to hear. is this really the case? is there a major question whether the u.s. navy is ready for battle? >> i believe that the surface navy, i would destroyers and other surface combatant shifts need a cultural change. some of this goes back 30 years to the fall of the soviet union and the loss of a competitor on the seas. this report is not coming for me or my counterpart in the house. it it is coming from sailors. it is coming fro...

Article content In a recent op-ed in this paper, I outlined how a distorted procurement process led to a ten-fold increase in costs, from $26 billion to $286 billion, for 15 Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) ships for the Royal Canadian Navy. There isan obvious follow-up question — where were the red flags that should have alerted the government to these escalating costs? Allow me to suggest three fundamental failings and to recommend solutions. First, our inability to ask the right question. ...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to establish a support system in India for the highly regarded Rolls-Royce MT30 marine engines. The HAL-Rolls-Royce partnership will provide packaging, installation, marketing and services support for the MT30 engine, creating a business case for the Indian Navy to consider using the engine for powering and propelling its warships. The Indian Navy, one of the world’s major warship builder...

autoevolution 24 Apr 2021, 5:15 UTC · by The Royal Canadian Navy’s newest Surface Combatant is about to get even more powerful, by integrating a top-of-the-range missile system. Designed to bring top-notch technology for maritime application, the Sea Ceptor is just as cool and fierce as it sounds. 6 photos Lockheed Martin Canada awarded MBDA, a missile systems developer, a contract to integrate the Sea Ceptor weapon system on the new Canadian surface combatant (CSC). A ship-based air ...