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The Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) partnership has identified the "optimal pathway" to provide Australia with conventionally-armed nuclear submarines by the 2030s with the best of ...
On March 13, 2023, U.S. president Joe Biden, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak met in San Diego, California, to announce the path forward for AUKUS a ...
Russian submarines docked at the Russian naval base in the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus on September 26, 2019. Russia is the “critical challenge” that the United States faces today, the ...
Biden announces deal to sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia 00:20. China warned Tuesday that the U.S. and its nuclear allies Australia and the United Kingdom were heading down a "path of ...
During the Cold War, a time of intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, intelligence was critical. Knowing an enemy’s plans in advance could mean the difference between ...
The United States will likely struggle to deal with the new Cold War in the region. China’s navy already outnumbers America’s, and Russia is keen on checking American submarines.
Fourth, the United States is modernizing but only “racing” to get to where it already is—the 2010 New START allowed level of warheads. And fifth, abolition doesn’t make sense.
China’s foreign ministry said Tuesday that the U.S., Australia and the United Kingdom are on a “wrong and dangerous path” after a deal was struck for Australia to buy nuclear-powered ...
The Yankee-Class Submarine’s Specs . The Yankee-class submarines were developed in response to the United States’ deployment of the Polaris missile submarines, such as the George Washington ...
For decades, the United States Navy has operated submarines capable of launching nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. First fielded in the 1960s, nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) patrol ...
If and when China attacks Taiwan, the U.S. Navy’s submarines could be the first defenders to take shots at the Chinese invasion fleet, as I explain in my latest video essay.
The previously unreported submarine came after China, which attempts to challenge United States naval dominance in the Western Pacific Ocean, launched and commissioned two new-generation warships ...