Australia is stretching out the construction of three air defense destroyers, aiming to preserve skills without adding to the cost of the Navantia-designed, Hobart-class ships. The first of the ...

The third and final Hobart-class Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) on order for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is set to be handed over to the service in February 2020 after recently completing sea trials.

HMAS Sydney , seen here with the Naval Strike Missile launcher on its starboard side, as it carries out a formation entry into Sydney Harbour with HMAS Warramunga and New Zealand's HMNZS Manawanui .

Royal Australian Navy Hobart Class destroyer HMAS Brisbane has conducted a routine transit through the South China Sea in accordance with ...

January 2, 2024: Australia is expanding its navy. That includes buying SSNs (nuclear powered attack submarines) from the United States and Britain as well as building a new class of nine 8,800-ton ...

THE cost to taxpayers of building three air warfare destroyers is $302 million above budget and likely to blowout by considerably more, a federal audit report has found. The destroyers, which are ...

THE same problems which led to air warfare destroyer construction cost blowouts are being repeated in the Future Submarines Project, engineers have warned. Civil engineers with knowledge of the Air ...