Australia is expected to buy up to five nuclear submarines from the United States under AUKUS, defying warnings that US shipyards were at capacity.
Australia is expected to buy up to five Virginia-class nuclear submarines from the United States under the AUKUS pact, defying repeated warnings that US shipyards were stretched to full capacity and could not sell any boats to Australia.
Australia will acquire boats based on the Astute-class submarines in the long term and Virginia-class submarines from the US to fill a capability gap.Albanese will appear at the San Diego Naval Base on Tuesday with Sunak and US President Joe Biden to announce details of the project. The longer-term AUKUS submarines would be a modified version of the UK’s next-generation Astute-class submarine, which is currently being designed, according to Bloomberg.
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