Research prepared for the United States Congress argues Australia could abandon its $368 billion AUKUS push to buy nuclear-powered submarines, outlining several alternatives including US owned boats serving both nations. "An alternative to Pillar 1 as currently structured would be a US-Australia military division of labour under which US SSNs would perform both US and Australian SSN missions while Australia …
AUKUS sets a precedent for India to acquire critical naval nuclear reactor technology, likely from France, which after this setback of losing the submarine project will be willing to engage The new AUKUS trilateral security partnership between Australia, the UK and the USA to help Australia develop nuclear-powered attack submarines is in India’s interests. AUKUS sets a precedent for India …
The Centre has set the ball rolling for the production of six conventional submarines even as its fleet is a fraction of what is operated by China. Compare this with China’s reported fleet size of between 70-80 submarines, of which at least six are SSN with the People’s Liberation Army Navy also said to have four SSBN and at least …
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