The first cohort of skilled submarine workers from Port Adelaide-based ASC Pty Limited has departed for Pearl Harbor in Hawaii for comprehensive sustainment training on nuclear-powered submarines. Around 30 skilled ASC workers are the first to deploy to the Pearl…
The Royal Australian Navy’s six Collins-class submarines will now not be armed with the Tomahawk strike weapon, and will also forego their planned optronics upgrade. The Government’s decisions on the life-of-type extension program have been informed by advice from Defence…
The UK Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, has effectively ruled out an Astute-class submarine as the nuclear-powered replacement for Australia’s six Collins-class conventional submarines. Speaking at the commissioning of HMS Anson in the UK, Mr Wallace noted that…
Australia’s sovereign defence company ASC is opening a new science and technology hub in Adelaide’s city centre at Lot Fourteen, to form new research and business connections that can enhance Collins-class submarine sustainment and their Life of Type Extension (LOTE).…
Minister for Defence Peter Dutton has announced the RAN’s Collins-class submarine fleet will be fitted with new optronic masts to replace its ageing optical periscope masts under a contract worth $381 million. The new masts will not require a hull…