Special episode: AUKUS and delivering Australia’s submarines
ASPI Podcast: Policy, Guns & Money
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The Cost of the Submarines
The cost to construct the submarines would be billions of dolla. There's a whole range of other infstructure cost to do with training facilities and all that sort of stuff. So, you know, i don't want this to be primarily about which boat, but i'm not sure astute is even an option any more at this point. The u k. System has got not a lot of capacity. And so they're finishing the construction of their last two astute boats. Now they've started construction of their future s s n. Their billistic missiles submarines, those submarines have a new, bigger reactor to build. For us to come along and say, we want to double
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