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France, Germany and New Defense Projects: Framing the Challenge

09/18/2019By Pierre Tran BOURGES/AVORD AIRBASE, France France and Germany need to resolve political, industrial and operational differences hanging over projects for a new fighter jet and a new tank, a French senator said Sept. 13. A New Generation Fighter is key to the planned Future Combat Air System, backed by France, Germany and Spain, while Berlin and Paris are also… Read more »

The Coming of Triton to the Allied Global Maritime Domain Awareness Enterprise: The RAAF Case

09/17/2019The Triton unmanned system is a key building block for 21st century maritime operations. In effect, the Triton provides capabilities similar to a low-earth orbiting system which can serve directly the maritime task force commander. Indeed, a key dimension of the coming of Triton is to ensure that intelligence communities not consider this their asset, but ensure that it is… Read more »

China Working on Fielding Electromagnetic Weapons: An Indian Perspective

09/17/2019By Debalina Ghoshal There is no doubt that China is working on sophisticated weapon systems. While China is modernising its nuclear forces, it is also not neglecting its conventional firepower. For example, China is working on electromagnetic technologies with the objective of fielding electromagnetic weapons for its ground, naval forces as the initial services to do so with the Air… Read more »

Challenges for the Australian Submarine Enterprise

09/13/2019By Marcus Hellyer The word on the street is that the government intends to make a decision by Christmas on whether to relocate full-cycle dockings of the Collins-class submarines from Osborne in South Australia to Henderson in Western Australia. Full-cycle dockings are the two-year-long deep overhauls that ASC conducts to prepare the boats for their next 10 years of service.… Read more »

Remembering September 11th at the Pentagon

09/11/2019By Robbin Laird Early on the morning of September 11th, I had an appointment in the Pentagon with a senior Pentagon official. I got there a bit early, and parked just outside the Defense Secretary's office. As I was sitting in the office, the TV was showing the story of an airliner plowing into the World Trade Center. I asked… Read more »

The UK Cuts First Steel for the New Generation ASW Frigates

09/08/2019The UK is building a new class of ASW frigates. The Australians and the Canadians are working with the UK on the program and will operate many more of the ships than the Royal Navy itself. This means that how the ship class will be fitted out is a work in progress. But in an article published on August 14,… Read more »

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Fifth-Generation Enabled Military Transformation: Australia, the UK and Shaping a Way Ahead

06/13/2019Australia and the UK are located in very different parts of the world. But both face significant challenges from a regional power with global reach. And both are reshaping their militaries to face the strategic shift from the land wars to full spectrum crisis management. Each has a different trajectory but through the common acquisition… Download PDF Now »