Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Bit of both I suspect - tasking will probably be Australian with overall RN approval - after all the UK is dependent on the OZ/NZ part of 5 eyes for information in that neck of the woods anyway. I doubt there's much specificaly of UK-only interest east of India
My understanding training and familiarisation are the main two. Also checking the berthing setup like power as the ameican and UK subs have different berthing requirement. Also imagine it will be doing short sorties out with australian submariners as part of the crew
USN bought one of their sub tenders to perth to do a maintainence on one of their subs in perth and about 12 RAN personal were involved in it