Richard Marles on why Australia’s Aukus submarine deal will be ‘too big to fail’
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Why Do We Need Submarines?
There's this tension because on the one hand, a lot of effort is going into submarine technology. And at the heart of your question is that if the veil of the sea is ever completely lifted, that does raise a question about what submarines are for beyond that. But precisely because there is an effort to illuminate the sea is why a submarine capability based on a diesel electric power system is going to be through the latter part of this decade and into the 2030s.
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