AUKUS
Neither the US nor Australia have enough welders, says Weld Australia CEO Geoff Crittenden. Photo: Giomar Arango/www.pixabay.com A steadily deepening shortage of welders in Australia could very well sink the AUKUS submarine program – and not in the intended manner. The warning comes from Weld Australia, the national body for the welding industry. The AUKUS…
FILE … A Virginia-class submarine, the USS Mississippi arrives at Rockingham, WA, on a routine port visit. Photo: Department of Defence A WA defence industry team is in the US to drum up more business as the UK Parliament announced a review of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. The WA Government also believes their defence…
The bus-sized Herne can lie on the seabed for nearly a year and can switch mission payloads. Picture: BAE Systems For two weeks in December, senior naval officers from 10 countries visited the English South Coast to watch the UK’s robot submersible Herne put through its paces. Herne is a robot submersible about the size…
An artistic impression of an Australian nuclear-powered submarine at sea. Graphic: BAE Systems The AUKUS nuclear submarine pact is among Defence projects that a federal parliamentary subcommittee is examining. The Defence subcommittee of a Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade just held its first public hearing into the Department of Defence’s annual report for 2023-24.…