SAN DIEGO: The leaders of the United States, Australia and Britain on Monday (Mar 13) unveiled details of a plan to provide Australia with nuclear-powered attack submarines, a m
, a major step involving an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars aimed at countering China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific.
Sunak called it"a powerful partnership", adding:"For the first time ever it will mean three fleets of submarines working together across the Atlantic and Pacific keeping our oceans free ... for decades to come." The statement from the leaders said the multi-stage project would culminate with British and Australian production and operation of a new class of submarine - SSN-AUKUS - a"trilaterally developed" vessel based on Britain's next-generation design that would be built in Britain and Australia and include"cutting edge" US technologies.
This first phase of the plan is already under way with the US Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine Asheville visiting Perth in Western Australia, officials said.AUKUS will be the first time Washington has shared nuclear-propulsion technology since it did so with Britain in the 1950s.
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