A $7.6 billion contract has been awarded to British military manufacturers to design and develop a new nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine as part of the AUKUS (Australia-United Kingdom-United States) pact with Australia.
The AUKUS security pact between Australia, UK and US has moved ahead but there’s one big thing missing in the latest announcement.A $7.6 billion contract has been awarded to British military manufacturers to design and develop a new nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine as part of the
Britain’s largest military-industrial firm began early design work for a replacement UK sub in 2021. The new contract will expand and accelerate that work to a point where it can place early contracts for time-intensive components such as nuclear reactors. China, which is undergoing the largest naval expansion seen since before World War II, rejects the need for Australia to acquire the silent, long-endurance vessels.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s chief of defence acquisitions Bill LaPlante has pointed to the 1960s-era Polaris Agreement with the UK as a successful model which should serve as a model for the AUKUS pact. In August, a deadly fire aboard one of Australia’s oldest operational submarines, HMAS Farncombe, is believed to have been caused by degraded electrical systems.
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