The SSN-AUKUS is based on the British Astute-class submarine. The UK's Royal Navy is expected to receive its first SSN-AUKUS in the late 2030s, before the Royal Australian Navy receives its first Australian-made nuclear-powered sub in the early 2040s, with five SSN-AUKUS vessels to be delivered to the RAN by the mid-2050s. The government has said that, under the agreement, SA will become the "home of Australian nuclear-powered submarine construction", and that the state will require a "major capability and capacity uplift" and a $2 billion federal injection over the next four years.īefore local construction begins, Australia will take three, potentially second-hand Virginia-class submarines early next decade, as it develops a new submarine, known as the SSN-AUKUS, with the United Kingdom. Key details of the AUKUS deal - which will cost up to $368 billion over the next three decades - were revealed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in San Diego this morning, Australian time. But the first locally-made submarine is not due to be delivered until nearly two decades from now, in the early 2040s, and will require a huge expansion of the Osborne shipbuilding site and local skills base.
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