AUKUS Treaty NEWS ONLY

[Scott Kenny]

Patience, please. AUKUS Pillar 2 is indeed making progress | The Strategist

AUKUS Pillar 2 has a PR problem—and no, not just among sceptical regional partners. Compared with evident progress on Australia’s future submarine capabilities under Pillar 1, analysts have often decried a lack of detail or ...

www.aspistrategist.org.au

Of course there's very little detail about Pillar 2.

I'd bet that just about everything under that is classified!

 

[GTX]

Some info on Pillar 2 here:

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9842/CBP-9842.pdf

 

[GTX]

AUKUS partners break new ground in defence trade relations » Supply Chain Channel

AU has applauded the United States Government for taking concrete measures to enhance export control licensing requirements for the AUKUS trilateral partners.

supplychainchannel-co.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[WatcherZero]

South Korea has had a meeting on joining AUKUS.

https://www.reuters.com/world/south-korea-confirms-talks-aukus-pact-with-us-uk-australia-2024-05-01/

New Zealand says they will take their time considering joining after they were briefed on it by Australia

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-not-close-decision-joining-aukus-pact-minister-says-2024-05-01/

 

[GTX]

AUKUS Forum News | Issue 6 | May 2024

AUKUS Issue 6 FORUM May 2024 NEWS Steering the Course of the Autonomy Revolution hear from a determined innovator in AI robotics and Aussie energy navigation technologies innovator powering a new frontier in space From Reserves to...

www.calameo.com

 

[GTX]

What has the AUKUS alliance accomplished in the last year?

Training uniformed personnel is just one piece of a flurry of industrial, legislative and acquisition activity that’s taken place.

www.defensenews.com

 

[bobbymike]

Australia’s First National Defence Strategy: Deterrence Rules

With its first-ever National Defence Strategy, Australia aims to respond to a rapidly shifting strategic environment. But can the strategy address some of Australian defence’s more endemic problems?

rusi.org

 

[GTX]

Episode 76: An Examination of AUKUS

An in-depth exploration of the Australia–UK–US defence capability agreement (AUKUS) and what it means for the UK’s foreign and security policy in the Indo-Pacific.

rusi.org

 

[GTX]

Here’s how the US Army’s multidomain task force is contributing to AUKUS

The 3rd Multidomain Task Force is collaborating with Australia and the U.K. to develop technology like artificial intelligence and machine learning.

www.defensenews.com

 

[GTX]

SA makes play to enter US nuclear submarine supply chain ahead of AUKUS

South Australia's naval shipbuilding sector is moving to become more heavily involved in US nuclear submarine construction, well before work begins on AUKUS vessels.

www.abc.net.au

 

[bobbymike]

Maybe this is obvious at this point but slowly starting to believe the US will never achieve a shipbuilding or defense industrial base, in general, that supports its aspirational modernization goals.

It will more closely integrate with its allies into a global industrial base and global force structure. The US won’t have 80 deployable surface combatants but the US, Japan, Australia & S. Korea will.

I know the allies already cooperate and integrate I’m talking about making up shortfalls in US force structure.

 

[Forest Green]

At least partially relevant:

Solomon Islands praises Australia as 'partner of choice'

Sydney (AFP) May 21, 2024 - Solomon Islands lauded Australia as its partner of choice on Tuesday, a reassuring sign for Canberra as it seeks to counter China's growing influence in the South Pacific.

www.spacewar.com

 

[MrPhantomMan]

Hopefully that still holds after their next election.

 

[GTX]

AUKUS Pillar 2 critical pathways: a road map to enabling international collaboration

 

[GTX]

The future of AUKUS XLUUV platforms - Australian Defence Magazine

Undersea robotics and autonomy is one the of eight key focus areas for AUKUS Pillar Two and it’s easy to see why | Ben Felton

www.australiandefence.com.au

 

[GTX]

P-8 'trilateral algorithm' to hit field this year, as AUKUS Pillar II eyes quantum clocks, AI projects - Breaking Defense

“The most important things that we do in Pillar II of AUKUS haven't been invented yet,” Michael Horowitz, whose office serves as the Pentagon's day-to-day lead on AUKUS issues, told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.

breakingdefense.com

 

[GTX]

Proposed AUKUS exemption a good start, but 'more work to do,' industry trade group says - Breaking Defense

The State Department should consider revising its draft language to reduce the technologies excluded from export control exemptions, which currently include submarines-related technologies and larger drones, the AIA said in recommendations to the department.

breakingdefense.com

 

[GTX]

Babcock AUKUS

Babcock and HII Partner to Finalize AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Initiative.

www.armyrecognition.com

 

[GTX]

US Pacific Fleet leadership confirms ironclad commitment to AUKUS

US Pacific Fleet leadership has announced that America’s commitment to AUKUS is ironclad, during a tour of Australia earlier this week.

www.defenceconnect.com.au

 

[GTX]

Australian diplomat says adding AUKUS partners 'complicated'

 

[Grey Havoc]

Aukus nuclear submarine project 'will fuel growth', says Healey

The defence secretary reaffirmed the UK's commitment to Aukus on a tour of a Sheffield steel maker.

www.bbc.com

 

[Forest Green]

Space Force's Saltzman sees 'room' for space capabilities in AUKUS Pillar II - Breaking Defense

“We are at that stage of planning” around what we should include, Saltzman noted, adding that all three nations see a potential Pillar II space agreement “as a valuable tool.”

breakingdefense.com

 

[WatcherZero]

Looks like AUKUS has convinced the Australian government to move away from their longstanding prohibition on nuclear power, last month they announced 7 sites where coal power stations would be replaced by nuclear power stations. This is also positive environmentally as Australia like China was one of the countries resisting ending coal power.

Peter Dutton names seven potential nuclear power station sites but avoids questions on cost

Coalition to push ahead with potential sites across Australia, but serious questions remain about viability and cost

www.theguardian.com

 

[Forest Green]

Looks like AUKUS has convinced the Australian government to move away from their longstanding prohibition on nuclear power, last month they announced 7 sites where coal power stations would be replaced by nuclear power stations. This is also positive environmentally as Australia like China was one of the countries resisting ending coal power.

Switch the nuclear makes sense given that they have the largest uranium reserves in the world.

List of countries by uranium reserves - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[GTX]

Looks like AUKUS has convinced the Australian government to move away from their longstanding prohibition on nuclear power, last month they announced 7 sites where coal power stations would be replaced by nuclear power stations. This is also positive environmentally as Australia like China was one of the countries resisting ending coal power.

Peter Dutton names seven potential nuclear power station sites but avoids questions on cost

Coalition to push ahead with potential sites across Australia, but serious questions remain about viability and cost

www.theguardian.com

What a load of rubbish!

Here are some facts: Peter Dutton is not in Government. He is the leader of the Opposition and thus this is all just talk. He cannot do anything and certainly his so-called announcement of "7 sites where coal power stations would be replaced by nuclear power stations" is nothing but wishful thinking. This is just political posturing.

 

[donnage99]

Maybe this is obvious at this point but slowly starting to believe the US will never achieve a shipbuilding or defense industrial base, in general, that supports its aspirational modernization goals.

It will more closely integrate with its allies into a global industrial base and global force structure. The US won’t have 80 deployable surface combatants but the US, Japan, Australia & S. Korea will.

I know the allies already cooperate and integrate I’m talking about making up shortfalls in US force structure.

You're talking about japan and s. korea building ships for us or you mean combining with their naval ships to achieve numerical parity/superiority against china?

 

[bobbymike]

You're talking about japan and s. korea building ships for us or you mean combining with their naval ships to achieve numerical parity/superiority against china?

I think it will be a way the DOD tries to politically mitigate (somewhat deceptively) and pump up ship numbers while avoiding “talk” of industrial base production shortfalls.

“Oh sure we said we need 80 deployed major surface combatants and only have 72 BUT along with our allies we have 90”

Deceptively because we’d have 98 combined if we had 80 ourselves (in the above scenario)

If that makes sense (barely I know)