australian navy

Eleven billion dollars, new warships, and some serious artillery form the Government’s plan for a massive upgrade to Australia’s Navy fleet.

Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app.

This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Josh Burton. The multimedia editor is Lia Tsamoglou and original music is composed by Jasper Leak.

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Eleven billion dollars, new warships, and some serious artillery form the Government’s plan for a massive upgrade to Australia’s Navy fleet.

Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app.

This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Josh Burton. The multimedia editor is Lia Tsamoglou and original music is composed by Jasper Leak.

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Time is running out for the US Coastguard to find the missing Titan submersible.

The vessel went missing in the Atlantic Ocean four days ago, with five on board.

It's estimated their oxygen will run out about 11pm.

Searchers are concentrating on an area where knocking was heard underwater.

Former Australian Navy Submarine Commander Frank Owen says that's hopeful because it's emergency protocol to bang on the hull every half hour.

"I can't think of anything else that it wouldn't be, but I really don't want to be too overly optimistic."

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On the day that Australia’s nuclear submarine deal gets announced, we chat to an ex-submariner about what it’s like to live and work on a sub.

Host: Andrew Bucklow
Producer:  Emily Pidgeon
Assistant Producer: Nina Young
Audio Editor: Joshua Burton

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Some Links

1. Photo of the Crew recording this
2. Teddy Locsin Jr Tweet
3. Royal Navy Tweet Thread
4. Naval News Article 
5. Defence News Article
6. Royal Navy Article 

Contributors 

1.      Dr. Alex Clarke's Youtube Channel

2.      Drachinifel's Youtube Channel

3.      Jamie Seidel's Youtube Channel

Email

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Links

Sea Control Podcasts

Links:

1. Force from the Sea: Australia's Amphibious Capability - An Update, by Kim Gilfillan, The Cove, July 3, 2020.
2. The Cove 
3. Strategic Update 2020
4. 2016 Defence White Paper
5. Amphibious Operations and the Evolution of Australian Defense Policy, by Peter J. Dean, US Naval War College Review, Fall 2014 

The world was on fire. Evil had spread across the lands and seas like a virus, infecting everything with death and hatred. The monstrous Empires of Europe and the East seemed unbeatable and destined to victory. To win the Allies would need to try every trick in the book, use every method of war known to them. And at times even invent new methods. The more daring the more dangerous. But in a fight that could mean the end of everything, there can be no reserves, no plans too risky. Better to leave no stone unturned. Better to lose, if lose you must, having exhausted every possible or even impossible chance. The Allies in WWII knew this and in the Pacific theatre they tried every imaginable gambit.

Let’s go back to beautiful Bali and the perilous Lombok Strait. Let’s go back to the hundreds of empty featureless miles of the Java Sea. To the craggy bushland and winding river training grounds of Camp X on the Hawkesbury River. Let’s go back to the crowded shipping lanes and jam-packed wharves of the Jewel of the East, Singapore itself. Let’s go back to a time when everything was on the line, freedom hung in the balance, and a few fearless men had the courage to gamble their lives in the hopes of striking the enemy a blow. Men that recognized the truth in Faulkner’s line "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." Let’s go back to September of 1943 and Operation Jaywick.