Nuclear subs, power generation, a Trident type setup for The Quad.
It may be coming, or at least some people may want it to.
It may be coming, or at least some people may want it to.
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Its not nuclear weapons, its nuclear powered submarines with conventional weapons.I'm not sure it makes us any safer to have nuclear weapons unless we felt we couldn't rely on our partners and allies to jump in to help us.
Nuclear powered subs won't violate the treaty.Nuclear powered boats fine
Dunno about weapons, i thought we signed the non proliferation treaty?
Will we invade ourselves for having wmds?
Ha ha, when the Collins Subs set sail from Perth, people in Sri Lanka could be heard saying "what the ferk is that noise"I think the only advantage the collins class has over the nuclear fleet is that it can go completely silent, where as the cooling pumps for the nuclear reactor are always running.
A nuclear subs range is decades, crazy.Nuclear powered subs won't violate the treaty.
For decades our Defence White Paper has been largely about protecting the sea lane between Australia and Singapore, where a lot of our refining capacity exists. The major advantage that nuclear powered subs have over conventional subs is range, and the fact they don't have to snort every ~48 hours which makes the vulnerable to air attack.
Range for nuclear powered subs are limited by food stores (1) and the morale of a crew being underwater for days/weeks at a time.
This is a major capacity upgrade for Australia but I do wonder how it will be received regionally. India, South Korea and Japan will be over the moon (no doubt high-ranking Indians officials were briefed recently on the Dutton visit) but China will be pissed. A nuclear powered sub Australia (and the associated maintenance facility for US subs docking here) is probably the only real threat to China's authority in the SC Sea.
Anything nuclear has a risk to it.A nuclear subs range is decades, crazy.
Its a brave move, it seems the Howard, Rudd, Abbott and Turnbull Govts all had an opportunity to go nuclear and didn't. It would be interesting to see what the cost of R&D for the scrapped project is.
Terrific and long over due decision. However ALP will just play politics and like the LNP did with the NBN switch to some rubbish solution like evolved Collins that will ultimately cost more and be essentially useless
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Ironically, the money comes from selling Iron Ore to ChinaNobody ever looks down their nose and sternly asks where's the money coming from when it comes to this sort of thing, to take action on climate change it seems everything has to be costed down to the last cent.
I think the only advantage the collins class has over the nuclear fleet is that it can go completely silent, where as the cooling pumps for the nuclear reactor are always running.
The ALP has been quite firmly non-nuclear for a while.
A nuclear subs range is decades, crazy.
Its a brave move, it seems the Howard, Rudd, Abbott and Turnbull Govts all had an opportunity to go nuclear and didn't. It would be interesting to see what the cost of R&D for the scrapped project is.
A nuclear subs range is decades, crazy.
Its a brave move, it seems the Howard, Rudd, Abbott and Turnbull Govts all had an opportunity to go nuclear and didn't. It would be interesting to see what the cost of R&D for the scrapped project is.
One of the reasons was the shallow waters of SE Asia. Conventional subs are a lot better at sneaking through because generally they have been far smaller.
This is going cost a ton, but probably a good investment with China building up their military. Hopefully the US helps Korea with their aspirations for nuclear subs so we can keep the CCP inline.