Yeah it’s a real shame the French tried to fuck us over and change the original deal, or else we’d still be doing business with them.
Comment on Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoIsn’t that the subs that France would have already delivered years ago for a fraction of the price, had Australia not cancelled the contract to order American subs that everyone told them would be late and over budget ?
Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
All I can find is that the costs followed inflation as expected. And, yeah there were some delays but getting full sovereignty over the construction of your military submarines (because that was the end goal there, the transfer of technologies, including state of the art, silent non-nuclear propulsion, so Australia could ultimately build their own subs “with total sovereignty”, according to the deal). I see zero mention of the terms of the contract changing after its signing apart from that.
And if you think that’s bad I’ve got some news for you about the delays and costs of that AUKUS thing…
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 1 week ago
Yep, those are the subs in question. A poor substitution at the time when it would have cost less just to swap to the French nuclear subs they initially offered