Updated 14 October 2025 See also: Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability [DARC] Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, Site 2, Cawdor Barracks, St Davids, Wales In February 2022 Northrop Grumman was awarded a US$341 million contract as prime integrator to develop, test and deliver the first DARC site in Australia. In August 2025 Space Systems Command and Northrop […]
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US and UK submarine visits to HMAS Stirling, Western Australia
Last updated: 28 August 2025 See also: HMAS Stirling and Submarine Rotational Force – West Log of US Navy ship visits to Darwin, 2000 – 2013, (updated 28 September 2013) US attack submarine visits, 1976-1982 US attack submarine visits, 2022 – 2025
Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station
Under construction. Last updated: 24 August 2025 Contents Introduction Location The JGGRS seismic array AFTAC JGGRS, arms control verification and strategic role Appendix: Australian budget allocations for the JGGRS, 2009-2015 Introduction ‘Australia is not only a beneficiary of the US policy of extended nuclear deterrence, it is an active supporter of it, through our joint […]
HMAS Stirling and Submarine Rotational Force – West
Under construction. Last updated: 28 August 2025 See also: US and UK submarine visits to HMAS Stirling, Western Australia Contents Contents Defence Department project outline US Congressional Research Service project outline Base planning for HMAS Stirling and SRF-West Nuclear radiation and waste hazards Corporate involvement U.S. planning for expansion of the Virginia-class attack submarine fleet […]
Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, Site 2, Cawdor Barracks, St Davids, Wales
Updated: 20 August 2025 See also: Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability [DARC] Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, Site 1, Exmouth The second DARC site is located at the UK Ministry of Defence Cawdor Barracks, near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, Wales. On 23 August 2024 the U.S. Defense Department awarded Northrop Grumman Systems a US$200,250,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee for ‘the […]
Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability [DARC]
See also Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, Site 1, Exmouth, Western Australia Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, Site 2, Cawdor Barracks, Wales The Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability [DARC] is a United States Space Force-auspiced ground-based space surveillance radar system, planned to be built on three sites – on the Exmouth Peninsula in Western Australia, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire […]
NUCLEAR-CAPABLE B-52H STRATOFORTRESS BOMBERS PROJECT
This site hosts publications and materials related to the Nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress Project, coordinated by Richard Tanter. The principal contents are a series of Nautilus Institute Special Reports by Vince Scappatura and Richard Tanter, and related materials: Vince Scappatura and Richard Tanter, Nuclear-capable B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers: a visual guide to identification, 2024 (full version […]
Pine Gap, Gaza and Australian complicity in genocide
This page collates materials related to the question of Australian complicity in genocide following the Israeli war on Gaza, initiated by Richard Tanter’s formal complaint to The Australian Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) in March 2024. Richard Tanter, Does Pine Gap place Australia at risk of complicity in genocide in Gaza? A complaint concerning the […]
Satellite Ground Station – East, Kapooka
Project coordinator: Richard Tanter Updated: 2 April 2025 The Satellite Ground Station – East is a primary ground station in the ADF Defence Satellite Communications System, constructed between 2018 and 2020 under Defence project JP2008 Phase 5B2. SGS-East is a companion to Satellite Ground Station – West subsequently constructed in the north-west compound of the Australian […]
Which B-52s are nuclear-capable?
Complete list of armament classification of all extant B-52H aircraft (2024) * Notes a. Confidence levels apply only to the armament classification assigned to active aircraft. b. AMARG – Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group; GITA – ground instructional training aircraft; OG – Operating Group. c. Although best efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy […]