Admiral Harry Harris said “we put a man on the moon in eight years” so it shouldn’t take decades for Australia to get nuclear submarines.
| Australia should receive nuclear-powered submarines quickly under the AUKUS agreement and not wait decades for their development, a former US commander of the Pacific Command said on Tuesday .
under the pact for Australia’s “tremendous military”, which he said would change the balance of power in the region.“You know some people – the Chief of Naval Operations – have said it could be 30 years before we see an Australian nuclear submarine under way in the Indian Ocean,” Admiral Harris said.
“I mean, we put a man on the moon in eight years, and we developed a COVID vaccine in one year. We can do this, but we’re going to have to put our shoulders to the task.”The AUKUS members are poised to unveil within weeks the so-called optimal pathway for Australia to acquire nuclear submarines.
“For Australia, which has a tremendous military, for them to have the long reach of a nuclear submarine force would be dramatic. It would help us dramatically. It would change the balance of power in the Indian Ocean, and it would make Australia a blue-water navy,” Admiral Harris told Democrat Congressman Joe Courtney at the hearing.
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