Originally Posted by
SevenTwentySeven
Ok, let's paint a scenario shall we?
RAN takes out a Chinese destroyer with one of these you bewt new subs.
30 minutes later RAAF Tindal is a smoking hole in the ground.
If you are going to play with the big boys, carry a bigger stick. This is just embarrassing.
10 minutes before it is launched the Pentagon and Pine Gap detect the activity, with US Service Personnel also using Tindal and any thermonuclear device likely to poison part of the NT and kill thousands and thousands of US Personnel, I'd say the Chinese would think twice. They probably think the US will look after themselves but they also would not be entirely sure that they wouldn't defend us - the other factor is that if it's Virginia Class boats we get, they'd have to know if the Chinese decided to attack us, they would also gain access to the sub technology and Washington won't have that happen.
More likely the Chinese would sink one of our Destroyers or Frigates and then have the South China Morning Post write one of their Borat-like stories about Australians being crawling maggots in the dung of Americans or some other nonsense.