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Australia chose AUKUS and now it faces the prospect of having no submarine capability for at least a decade (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 26 points 6 months ago

That was known on day 1

Whatever made us throw France under the bus must have been pretty fucking good and also had nothing to do with Subs.

[-] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

A variety of reasons including, rather ironically, concerns about delays: https://www.politico.eu/article/why-australia-wanted-out-of-its-french-sub-deal/

[-] tristan@aussie.zone 19 points 6 months ago

Even more ironic is a bunch of the delays were caused by Australia demanding the French change the designs from nuclear to diesel

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