Defence Minister Richard Marles has become the first foreign counterpart to be hosted by the new US Secretary of Defence ...

Australia's Department of Defence (DoD) has taken delivery of the country's first Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV), the department disclosed in a statement ...

The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has taken delivery of the first Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV), NUSHIP Arafura, as part of Project SEA 1180. The Arafura-class OPVs are based on ...

Built under Project SEA 1180 by Luerssen Australia at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia, NUSHIP Arafura is the first of six planned Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) designed to enhance ...

The Australian Department of Defence has accepted the first Arafura class Offshore Patrol Vessel more than three years after ...

Today a public comment period commences for interested parties to access documents and provide submissions on the Submarine Rotational Force - West (SRF-West) priority works at HMAS Stirling, Western ...

The state government has released a strategy for growth of the defence industry in Western Australia, as activity scales up in the sector in Perth’s southern suburbs. It maps a path for growth across ...

Technical colleges are springing up in South Australia. And $5bn is being poured into HMAS Stirling, a naval base in Perth, which will host American and British subs from 2027. But in any multi ...

Australia is already preparing to conduct maintenance for deployments of up to five nuclear-powered submarines from the US and UK to Western Australia’s HMAS Stirling base in 2027. With ...