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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 we've 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 what's 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. they've lost a lot of equipment. they've used a lot of precision-guided munitions. they've lost a maj...
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.