In naming BAE Systems as the builder of Australia’s submarines, the Albanese government is putting its major shipbuilding eggs in the British defence giant’s basket.
, the Albanese government is putting all its major shipbuilding eggs in the British defence giant’s basket.
BAE’s biggest export success story is the Nulka decoy rocket, which is fitted to Australian, US and Canadian warships. When an enemy missile is fired at a ship, Nulka is launched and hovers in midair, luring the missile away from its target.The company operates the Jindalee Operational Radar Network, Australia’s crucial early warning system for the nation’s northern approaches that can detect objects thousands of kilometres away at sea and in the air.
With the recent navy review finding the total project cost had ballooned to $65 billion from almost $45 billion, theFor a project that was originally promised to have a “cut steel” date of 2020, the whiff of trouble has left the Hunter-class frigates with few public defenders. But the British submarine is in troubled waters. Retired rear admiral Peter Briggs, who led the team that got the Collins-class submarine back on track 25 years ago, last month warned the start date for the first AUKUS submarines was at risk of slipping because Britain’s priority was finishing the remaining Astute-class boats and then its Dreadnought-class submarines.
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