Colin Clarke; Breaking Defense Indo Pacific 3rd July 2025: “We the Japanese government will guarantee that the whole project, and all the contracts will go smoothly so that there will not be any delay to the project,” Osamu Nishiwaki, a top official at Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA), told reporters. NAGASAKI — Japan isn’t […]
DEFENCE CONNECT: The Royal Australian Navy’s MH-60R Seahawk helicopter fleet has successfully surpassed 50,000 flight hours over the ten years since they were introduced into RAN service. Sikorsky Australia, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, provides deep maintenance of the helicopters on behalf of the RAN. It employs over 200 personnel at its sustainment and logistics […]
Australian engineering company, Civmec, is to acquire shipbuilder Luerssen Australia from Naval Vessels Luerssen (NVL) for A$20 million. The parties are working towards a target completion date of 1 July 2025. It is the intent that, following completion of the Acquisition, Luerssen Australia Pty Ltd will be renamed to ‘Civmec Defence Industries Pty Ltd (CDI)’ as […]
Maritime News: [This may sound familiar to RAN personnel.] After years of issues with contractor-based equipment maintenance, the U.S. Navy is joining the “right to repair” movement, Navy Secretary John Phelan told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The “right to repair” movement is a response to the business practice of locking up […]
Navy Lookout : In the first major naval announcement of the Strategic Defence Review, the (UK) Prime Minister has promised to construct up to 12 SSNs (nuclear-powered attack submarines) to replace the Royal Navy’s 7 Astute class boats from the late 2030s. This aspiration is undoubtedly very good news and is absolutely the correct choice […]
Naval News 27 May 2025 : Saab Australia and German company TKMS have signed a MOU to support the German pitch for Australia’s SEA 3000 patrol frigate program. The SEA 3000 program is a mult-ibillion enterprise pitting Germany’s TKMS MEKO 200 against Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ evolved Mogami guided missile frigate to deliver the Royal […]
This week Ocius signed a contract extension for Operation Resolute operations out of Darwin with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), in collaboration with Maritime Border Command and the Australian Border Force. This is the largest contract Ocius has signed to date. While details remain confidential, it is publicly known that since 1 July 2024, Ocius […]
Damen LST100 design selected for Army’s heavy landing craft requirement : 22 November 2024 | Andrew McLaughlin Just in case NOA members missed the news back in November 2024, the Damen LST will displace nearly eight times that of the Balikpapan class LCHs it will replace. The Commonwealth has announced that a design by shipbuilder […]
DEFENCE CONNECT: Rheinmetall Defence Australia has kicked off local assembly of the first Multi Ammunition Softkill System (MASS) shipsets, destined for installation on Royal Australian Navy vessels. This off-board countermeasure system is engineered to defeat incoming missile and asymmetric threats by generating decoy targets, thereby misdirecting hostile projectiles away from high-value assets. [by Ed. this is the […]
DEFENCE CONNECT: Sikorsky Australia, has been awarded a new three-year contract worth AU$313.5 million to continue its long-standing maintenance and sustainment partnership with the Royal Australian Navy to support the MH-60R Romeo Seahawk helicopter fleet. The sustainment contract will create over 75 new jobs in Nowra at Sikorsky Australia’s maintenance and logistics support facility, building on […]
