Defence Minister Richard Marles, in America to meet his US counterpart, hints that Australia's future nuclear-powered submarine will improve the capabilities of all three members of the AUKUS agreement.
"I think what's actually expected of us by both the US and the UK, is that we make a contribution to the net industrial base of the three countries, by developing the capacity in Australia to build a nuclear-powered submarine," he said."It is one of the real challenges that we face and we're going to have to do a lot of work to get this right," he said., given it is already struggling to meet its own Navy's requirements.
"And when you actually go and test that with people who are building submarines, they say the space shuttle doesn't come close to a submarine, this is a hugely complex machine."
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