Shifting Strategies in the AUKUS Agreement The AUKUS defense partnership was created to strengthen security cooperation in ...

There is no shortage of critics in the debate over AUKUS, the controversial trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The radical plan ...

replace three to five Virginia-class boats that are to be sold to Australia under the AUKUS submarine (Pillar 1) project (see below), and reduce the accumulated Virginia-class production backlog.

Doubts remain about the delivery timeline for the Australia-bound nuclear submarines and Donald Trump’s commitment to the ...

The readout also said that Hegseth welcomed Australia’s $500 million contribution under AUKUS to the U.S. submarine industrial base as a key element of advancing defense industrial collaboration ...

Defence Minister Richard Marles has become the first foreign counterpart to be hosted by the new US Secretary of Defence under the Trump administration. Pete Hegseth says the Trump administration will ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said President Donald Trump supported the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, after Australia on Friday confirmed its first $500 million payment ...

At a meeting with his Australian counterpart Richard Marles in Washington last Friday, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said: “The president is very aware, supportive of Aukus, recognises the ...