Japanese officials have observed secretive AUKUS military exercises on the New South Wales south coast, signalling the country's potential future involvement in the partnership. Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom displayed the latest in autonomous maritime technology during the event.
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00:00I'm here in Jervis Bay for the final week of the Maritime Big Play Autonomous Warrior
00:06military exercises involving the three AUKUS partners, Australia, the United States and
00:12the United Kingdom.
00:13It's part of pillar two of the AUKUS arrangement which involves knowledge sharing between the
00:17three major military powers.
00:20As you can see behind me, this is the kind of technology that's on display.
00:23This is called the Speartooth.
00:25It's a large subsurface autonomous vessel that's able to deliver a payload up to 3,000
00:31kilometres away.
00:32It's just one example of the kind of military technology on display over these past three
00:37weeks.
00:38Other examples include the Ghost Shark which is an extra large Australian Navy developed
00:44underwater vessel.
00:46We understand that during the three weeks, all these vessels have been on display for
00:50representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom and even Japan to observe some
00:55of this technology on display.
00:58Representatives from the Australian Navy say this is an example of the kind of knowledge
01:01sharing arrangements that will be in place under the AUKUS arrangement.
01:06What we've seen here over the past couple of weeks is the ability for Australia, the
01:10United States and the United Kingdom to operate our autonomous systems seamlessly together
01:15and to improve the way that we can deliver autonomous effects in a combined way.
01:21We're working closely with industry partners here on the ground to be able to trial, test
01:26and improve the hardware that our militaries are using.
01:29We know that globally our allies and our adversaries are developing autonomous systems and we definitely
01:39don't want to be left behind and we do want to be able to counter their technology with
01:44effective technology ourselves.
01:46Australian defence companies which have shown off their technology at these three week defence
01:51exercises say that Australia is actually at the cutting edge of autonomous vessels.
01:57They say AUKUS is a chance for them to share this knowledge as the AUKUS partnership develops.