The impact of Australia only buying second-hand US submarines under AUKUS

Australia will only buy second-hand Virginia nuclear-powered submarines from the US during the AUKUS stopgap phase, with some ...

Australia to buy used submarines from the US under the AUKUS security pact

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said the decision to change the deal's parameters was made to simplify Australia's ...

Minister dismisses Labor colleague Ed Husic’s criticism of secondhand Aukus submarines deal as ‘disingenuous’

Pat Conroy says three used Virginia-class nuclear submarines from the US will be cheaper to buy and run ...

Richard Marles accepts used submarines in AUKUS setback

Defence ministers from AUKUS nations agreed Australia would not buy any new Virginia-class submarines from the US Navy and ...

'Paid for a Porsche, got a compact two-seater': Is this AUKUS' hidden cost?

"You've paid for a Porsche, but they give you a compact two-seater," Albert Palazzo, adjunct professor at UNSW in Canberra ...

‘Not the deal promised’: Labor’s Ed Husic questions Aukus pact that will deliver secondhand subs

Former frontbencher launches most significant internal criticism of $368bn Aukus deal since ALP national conference in 2023 ...
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Second-hand submarines: a sovereign flaw

The decision to acquire three secondhand Virginia-class submarines resolves a major fleet standardisation issue, but it also ...
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Virginia-class submarines turn one hull design into decades of new missions

The difficulty with the Virginia-class in the modern shipbuilding business is that it does not always completely re-invent its hull, but instead varies the cargo it can transport and the cargoes it ...

The nuclear substitutes: pressure mounts with AUKUS subs deadline

Australia’s AUKUS timeline has been placed under fresh pressure amid revelations the navy will get three second-hand Virginia ...
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Report to Congress on the Virginia-class Submarine Program and AUKUS Pillar I

Virginia-class submarine program. The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) since FY1998, and a total of 41 have been procured through FY2025. From ...