Australia has taken a significant step towards a sovereign nuclear-powered submarine sustainment capability, with the USS Vermont arriving at HMAS Stirling for a four-week maintenance period today.

Australia’s nuclear submarine program is facing fresh uncertainty after AUKUS boss Jonathan Mead announced his retirement ...

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Famous faces including adventurers and former politicians got up close and personal with the latest Royal Navy diving kit. Honorary Colonel Bear Grylls and former Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt ...

Personnel from the Navy’s Bravo Diving Unit 2 – a Portsmouth -based team normally used to dealing with unexploded bombs and mines – carefully placed the creatures on to a dedicated reef in the River ...

In an exceptional display merging French horological lineage and real-world military expertise, Jacques Bianchi has debuted the JB300 Profonde x Deepsea.edc. This collaborative luxury watch, ...

President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP) U.S.

China has increased its criticism of Australia after a tense military encounter over the South China Sea at the weekend. It has accused the Australian Defence Force of using "twisted" propaganda after ...

Filipinos have a long history in Australia, from the 19th-century Manilamen in the pearl industry to those who served in World Wars I and II. Today, over 400,000 Filipinos live in Australia, enriching ...

THE body of a missing US Navy diver who fell overboard from a ferry four months ago has been found on a Scots beach. Mark Federspiel, 64, went missing on a sailing on Father’s Day from Gourock to ...

At HMAS Stirling naval base on Wednesday, marking the arrival of USS Vermont – which, like the submarines that will ultimately become part of the Australian navy as part of AUKUS, is a ­Virginia-class ...

City residents and workers were yesterday treated to the sight of one of the F/A-18 Hornet fighters roaring at 400km/h over Sydney Harbour Bridge in a demonstration of military force. Some of ...