Australia has now outlined its plan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS agreement with Britain and the United States. This is how it will be done.
After 18 months, Australia has now outlined how it is going to acquire nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS agreement with Britain and the United States.
To ensure the US isn’t left worse off, Australia will contribute about $3 billion to the efforts in the US and UK to increase their industrial capacity to build submarines.While this is happening, Australia and Britain will begin work on a new class of submarine - to be called SSN-AUKUS - which will be the next class of submarine for both countries. It will be a British design but have American technology including its nuclear reactor, weapons system and vertical launch system.
The growing power and assertiveness of China has changed everything; Beijing has militarised the South China Sea by constructing defence bases out of artificial islands and threatened to invade Taiwan. The US will commit $US4.6 billion to its industry to support the Australian project, while the UK will spend £2.2 billion.The union movement and the South Australian government are unlikely to be pleased with the decision to buy three submarines from the US.
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