PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - AUKUS
Thread: AUKUS
View Single Post
Old 19th Sep 2021, 12:57
  #180 (permalink)  
ORAC
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Peripatetic
Posts: 17,400
Received 1,589 Likes on 726 Posts
Congress is desperate to get Virginia class production up from 2 a year to 3 just to meet their own needs - not sure they could fit in any orders for Australia.

Regardless production is due to end in 2032-33 with the ramp up of SSNX production.

With the timescales being discussed I would suggest SSNX would be the more likely candidate - and it seems better fitted to Australian needs.

The current shortfall in numbers of fleet SSNs, and projected fleet shrinkage, would see to limit the chances of any loaners - though establishing a permanent detachment to a home port in Adelaide might be a way forward

.https://news.usni.org/2020/11/18/nav...pyard-capacity

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news...-ssnx-program/

https://news.usni.org/2021/08/11/rep...ck-submarine-3
ORAC is offline