Originally Posted by
golder
Although getting an old nuke sub was an option put forward by the politicians. A recent Senate budget hearing was told ADF intends to gap the Collins sub. With other platforms and weapons. This life extension is for 10 years and there may not be enough hull life left to do a second life extension. So we will see what the next 16 months brings.
Wonder if the option just to buy some dosans off SK while we wait. They are knocked the first out in 2 1/2 years laid down to launch then another 2-3 to commission . Collin life extension is 6 billion for 6 subs, dosans are about a 1billion USD. Sure costs more but you got a new sub and 6 VLS tubes. SK builds 2 in korea to get them to us ASAP, we build the next 4 locally and use the window to start to get our a manpower to speed. By the time we had finished theres an active plan ready for what ever nuclear