Insights - Defence Connect

15 Nov 2018

Korean, Indian and Australian destroyers bringing up the rear

Responding to the growing regional destroyer fleets, Korea, India and Australia are rapidly expanding their own major surface combatant fleets, with ...

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14 Nov 2018

Backbone of the fleet: The major players’ destroyers

Destroyers serve as the backbone of any navy. As Australia expands and modernises its own fleet of destroyers, we take a closer look at potent destro...

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7 Nov 2018

Dive! Dive! The emerging submarine power players

While the major powers continue to be the focus of much of the spotlight, the region’s emerging powers are quietly developing their own potent subma...

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5 Nov 2018

PM reaffirms commitment to defence capability and regional security

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has used his 'The Beliefs that Guide Us' address to the Asia Society Australia to strengthen the government's pledge to...

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2 Nov 2018

Run silent, run deep: Understanding the regional sub rivalry

Navies throughout Indo-Pacific Asia have increasingly recognised the advantages provided by submarines, leading to growing numbers of submarines opera...

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30 Oct 2018

Strategic deterrence: More than just nukes

Strategic deterrence has long been the realm of major powers. However, the decreasing cost of key weapons systems, rising wealth and competing strateg...

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18 Oct 2018

Responding to Australia’s increasingly dangerous predicament of proximity

Australia’s once insulating ‘tyranny of distance’ is rapidly being replaced by a dangerous ‘predicament of proximity’ to the fastest growing...

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11 Oct 2018

What Australia's response to China could look like

Some of the nation's top strategic minds think Australia needs to shake-up its thinking in response to China’s unprecedented military build-up and i...

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8 Oct 2018

Sub scuttlebutt: SEA 1000 in deep water, or is it?

It is the largest defence acquisition project in the history of the nation, but the $50 billion, or is it $80 billion, project to replace the ageing C...

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5 Sep 2018

Building fifth-generation land capabilities with Lockheed Martin

Fifth-generation capability is typically focused on large platforms like F-35 and the Navy’s new Air Warfare Destroyers, however Lockheed Martin has...

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4 Sep 2018

‘We make the connections’: US FCT opportunities for Aussie businesses

The Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) mission is to find, assess and field world-class technologies to enhance the capabilities of the US warfighter w...

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24 Aug 2018

Sovereign industry key to enhancing undersea battlespace: Thales

With more than half of the world’s submarines expected to be operating in our region in the coming decades, Australia’s surface warships and subma...

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16 Aug 2018

70 years young with eyes on the future: Lockheed Martin in Australia

Lockheed Martin Australia has a long and storied history of supporting the ADF. As chief executive Vince Di Pietro told Defence Connect, with 70 years...

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hmas adelaide waits for us marine amphibious assault vehicles to embark during rimpac

10 Aug 2018

LHD success at RIMPAC highlights power of key platform: Navantia

They have been billed as a quantum leap for Australia’s amphibious warfare capabilities, and now the Canberra Class of Landing Helicopter Docks (L...

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16 Jul 2018

Allies scramble as POTUS unleashes

NATO allies have been sent into a tail spin as US President Donald Trump challenges the alliance structure, calling into question the wider global al...

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25 Apr 2018

Veteran superannuation: an uphill battle

“The whole system – it’s proven beyond doubt – is killing people.” With all eyes fixed on the royal commission, the commission’s ...

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9 Mar 2018

LAND 400 decision puts focus on force protection

When British academic and defence specialist Martin Shaw talks about the ‘new Western way of war’, what he’s referring to is force protection. A...

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5 Mar 2018

The Australian ingenuity powering the US and Oman navies

The current fascination with the US Navy’s Independence variant of the littoral combat ship (LCS) project, has shone a light on the history of Aus...

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25 Sep 2017

Australia and US defence relationship unparalleled: AmCham

Since the release of the 2016 Defence White Paper, the federal government has put the hard word on international primes hoping to win Australian defen...

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