Joint Architecture
for Forward Denial

The Changing Maritime Landscape

The conditions the architecture answers: the transparent battlefield demonstrated in Ukraine and the Gulf, the reach of modern sensors and precision weapons, and what these mean for surface forces operating in Australia's northern approaches.

Joint Architecture for Forward Denial

The capability prospectus: a sovereign targeting network holding custody of the approaches, and containerised land-based fires produced at marginal cost on a sovereign production line, with the force structure and its cost set out inside existing budget envelopes.

Operational Concept and Technical Description

The companion volume to the briefs: the operational concept, the targeting network, the requirements and design concept of the fires, the engagement model and force structure, and the industrial-partnership model. Every published figure is derived from stated assumptions so that each claim can be checked.