international

The Navy plans to conduct its first submarine maintenance work in Australia using a U.S. submarine tender next year, with dozens of Australian sailors aboard learning how to repair U.S. […]

The Australian minister for defense industry this week confirmed the new SSN-AUKUS submarine will use a version of the current submarine combat system and that his government’s plan to sequence […]

The Canadian government Thursday said it had finalized plans to purchase up to 16 Boeing [BA] P-8A Poseidon aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft program (CMMA). […]

Two high level members of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday said they are “bullish” that Congress will ultimately pass legislation enabling key elements of the tripartite AUKUS deal […]

The first Australian Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft completed its first flight on Nov. 9 at a company facility. The MQ-4C flew out of Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale Aircraft […]

Australia hosted the other two AUKUS partners in an exercise of unmanned undersea warfare technology, the Pentagon said Monday.  The U.S. Defense Department said this event was explicitly part of […]

The Australian government is expected within a year to announce the shipbuilding company that will work with the U.K. to build its next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarines, a Royal Australian Navy […]

The Navy’s sub boss recently said the tripartite AUKUS agreement’s optimal pathway would have the U.S. sell at least three attack submarines (SSNs) to Australia in the 2030s. Following his […]

A Navy official said Australian payments to help the U.S. submarine industrial base (SIB) under the AUKUS agreement will largely be directed to increase attack submarine (SSN) production above current […]

The State Department approved a potential $300 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Iraq for Bell Helicopter [TXT] Contracted Logistics Support (CLS). The  Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress […]