Originally Posted by
ORAC
Which brings us back in a circle to my comment that dual-manning the last two Astutes and basing them in Oz for AUKUS ops would give them 10 years to train captains, engineers and crews as well as dockyard support in dealing with SSKN ops before their first boat is in the water.
When I looked a few years ago, 50% of our captains had served in the RN as captains of nuclear subs or had been XO on them