Experts say the US Congress must agree to share submarine secrets with Australia as part of the AUKUS deal.
One of America’s biggest proponents of the AUKUS deal with Australia and the United Kingdom has vowed Australia will not be getting substandard submarines.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet in San Diego to announce the terms of the deal.Under the agreement, Australia is expected to buy up to five Virginia-class subs from the US to help safeguard the Indo-Pacific against the rising threat of China. After that, Australia will acquire a second AUKUS-class submarine, based on UK designs and US technology, from the mid to late 2030s.
“The people that have been working at this understand the complexity of construction and acquisition, and they understand things like timing and chronology. The bottom line is I think what we’re going to see emerge is the mixture of all three countries [Australia, the US and Britain] participating in this enterprise to get Australia a 21st-century submarine fleet.
“Everybody agrees it’s a huge mess,” Emily Harding, a deputy director at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said of America’s ITAR regulations. “But all of the different pieces to it need to be untangled in a set of difficult steps.”
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