The controversial $45b Hunter Class frigate selected for the Australian navy was approved without taxpayer “value-for-money” analysis, and is in breach of finance laws. In a stunning rebuke, the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems has received a contract to deliver multiple shipsets of the Mk 45 Medium Caliber Gun and automated Ammunition Handling System (AHS) for the ...

BAE is expanding its strategic supplier partnerships program to include more SMEs later this year and into 2026, in a bid to protect its construction schedule for the first of three anti-submarine ...

The steel cut was initiated by Defence Minister Richard Marles and South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas immediately after the production contract for the first three high-end anti-­submarine ...

Australia’s biggest defence projects are facing a massive wages cost blowout, with BAE’s troubled Hunter-class frigate program the latest target in a union-led campaign leveraging sector pay ...

An artist's impression of the future Hunter class. Steel for the first-of-class has been cut, the Australian DoD announced on 21 June. (Commonwealth of Australia) Australia has begun construction work ...

A new contract awarded for Australia’s Hunter-class frigates will see Rohde & Schwarz provide the vessels’ “central nervous system”. Rohde & Schwarz’ NAVICS communications technology will be fitted on ...

ADELAIDE, Australia, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultra Maritime, the premier provider of torpedo defence and anti-submarine warfare solutions, has been selected to provide next generation torpedo ...

Australia’s $45bn future frigates will be positioned as anti-submarine Hunter-Killers in an echo of World War II, as construction accelerates on several massive naval projects. It is the ...

Construction may have been started by BAE Systems on the first Hunter-class frigate but scepticism surrounds the general-purpose frigate programme due to delays and planning issues. Australia has been ...