Category: Royal Australian Navy
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The Australian Defence Force will replace its entire fleet of 47 MRH-90 Taipan multirole helicopters a decade ahead of schedule, replacing the troubled helicopters with new American-made Black Hawk and… Continue reading "Australia To Ditch Taipan Helicopters For Black Hawks and Seahawks"
2 years ago
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The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley, commissioned the country’s two new Cape Class patrol boats on Sunday. The vessels were formally handed over by Austal in May this year and… Continue reading "Cape Class vessels TTS Port of Spain and TTS Scarborough commissioned into Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard"
2 years ago
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Australia has deployed members of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Defence Force (ADF) to the Solomon Islands in response to increasing unrest in and around the nation’s capital, Honiara. Australia’s… Continue reading "Troops, Police from PNG & Australia land in The Solomon Islands"
2 years ago
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On the 22 November, the United States and Great Britain signed an agreement with Australia that will formally bring to an end the two’s long-held duopoly on advanced nuclear submarine… Continue reading "AUKUS Formalized By New Agreement"
2 years ago
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The Australian Department of Defence has released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for an inshore patrol boat that will enter service with the Vanuatu Police Maritime Wing in 2022. The… Continue reading "RFP Released for New Vanuatu Patrol Boat"
2 years ago
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Concurrent operations have concluded in the North and South Pacific aimed at tackling Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. Operation Kurukuru was conducted in the South Pacific between the 23rd… Continue reading "Dual Fisheries Enforcement Operations Conclude in the Pacific"
2 years ago
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Much has been made in recent years about fears of a supposed Chinese military base emerging in the South Pacific, on Australia’s backdoor. From Kiribati to Vanuatu, unsubstantiated reports of… Continue reading "Australia’s Defence Infrastructure in the Pacific: An Overview"
2 years ago
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HMS Astute, an Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) of the Royal Navy (RN), docked in Western Australia on October 29. Just six weeks ago, Australia made its plan to acquire… Continue reading "Royal Navy Submarine Makes Rare Visit to Australia as Australia’s Future Submarine Begins to Take Shape"
3 years ago
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Austal has launched the first of six new Evolved Cape Class patrol boats for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The RAN ordered the new boats in 2020 to help ease… Continue reading "First of Six Evolved Cape Class Patrol Boats Launched by Austal"
3 years ago
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Member nations of the Five Powers Defence Arrangements celebrated the 50th anniversary of the agreement with an aircraft flypast and naval vessel display off Singapore’s south coast on Monday afternoon.… Continue reading "FPDA Marks Golden Jubilee With Flypast And Naval Vessel Display"
3 years ago
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