Australian Defense Minister Richard Miles said that the SSN-AUKUS nuclear submarines will belong to a new class created specifically for the Australian Navy under the AUKUS partnership agreements (Australia, UK and US military alliance) and will become a joint project. London and Canberra. It has been reported TASS.
Miles stressed that the new class of last-generation nuclear submarines, dubbed SSN-AUKUS, “will be a joint Canberra-London project with two production lines, one in the UK and the other in South Australia.”
He added that the first sub would be ready in Borrow-in-Furness by the end of the next decade, and a submarine built at Osborne would be launched in the early 2040s.
Marles also noted that all nuclear submarines to be built for the Australian Navy will “become the country’s sovereign source, will be on combat duty under the command of Australian officers, and have their crews solely attached to Canberra”.
Former IAEA chief Rafael Grossi declarationThe United Kingdom, the United States and Australia have assured the International Atomic Energy Agency that Australia will remain a non-nuclear weapon state.