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Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Minnesota docked at HMAS Stirling in Rockingham, WA, in February.

‘Headed for a train smash’: Former commander’s dire AUKUS warning

A retired rear admiral says AUKUS is a “wasteful folly” that needs to be jettisoned. “It is never too late to stop a plan that is not going to bloody well work.”

  • Matthew Knott

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Australians know we’re under threat – and underprepared

A massive new study on attitudes to national security shows that while public anxiety is rising, there is some reassuring unity in our shared priorities.

  • Rory Medcalf
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‘America’s first AI war’: Silicon Valley’s bet on military tech is paying off

From behemoths to smaller companies offering novel weapons, tech firms such as Google, Palantir and OpenAI have found themselves at the heart of the US war effort.

  • Sheera Frenkel
How shipping changed in the Strait of Hormuz during the first week of the war in Iran.

Trump has a limited time to end the war – perhaps a week at most

Iran new leaders may be willing to subordinate their foreign and defence policies to US objectives to retain control of their network of lucrative business enterprises.

  • Clinton Fernandes
An RAAF Wedgetail, flying in formation with Australian and US jets.

Australia weighs sending ‘world-class’ surveillance aircraft to defend against Iran drones

The country’s most sophisticated military surveillance plane could be deployed to help Gulf nations defend against Iranian missile and drone attacks.

  • Matthew Knott
The White House released this footage of the sinking of an Iranian warship, the IRIS Dena, off the coast of Sri Lanka. The torpedo was fired from a US fast attack submarine.

How the US sank one of Iran’s most modern warships

The spectacular destruction of an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka underlines how the US-Israeli military operation is stretching far beyond Iran’s borders.

  • Tom Housden
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The HASTE rocket on the launch pad.

Failure to launch: Australian scramjet test flight delayed in US

Bad weather on the east coast of the United States has delayed the test launch of a Queensland hypersonic scramjet capable of travelling at 12 times the speed of sound.

  • Cameron Atfield
Ely Ratner, former US Assistant Secretary of Defence for Indo-Pacific, says the threat from China is increasing.

Natural allies, not Frankenstein pact: Call for Australia to join NATO-style Pacific alliance

One of Joe Biden’s former top advisers says Australia, the US, Japan and the Philippines should move away from a “Frankenstein model of alliances” and unite.

  • Matthew Knott
A Virginia-class fast attack submarine off the coast of Western Australia in February.

Looming shift in US Navy strategy bodes well for Australia’s subs

There are also signs the lagging rate of US submarine production is improving.

  • Michael Koziol
Spectacle Island on the Parramatta River section of Sydney Harbour, with Cockatoo Island in the background.

‘An incredibly rare proposition’: Sydney Harbour island up for sale

A plan to sell an entire island within the Harbour has ignited debate about whether the historically significant site should be offloaded to private buyers or kept in public hands.

  • David Barwell