UK defends AUKUS submarine rotation despite SSN pressure

UK defends AUKUS submarine rotation despite SSN pressure

The Government has insisted it remains realistic and strategically necessary for the Royal Navy to deploy an Astute-class submarine to Australia under the AUKUS partnership, despite concerns over the size and availability of the UK’s attack submarine fleet. The issue was raised during a Defence Select Committee session by Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck, who warned that recent periods without a single UK nuclear-powered attack submarine at sea risked…

AUKUS meets reality – UK ‘all in’ a mess (Part 2)

Australia is betting on a British program plagued by delays, underinvestment and workforce shortages – a gamble that risks leaving the country without any sovereign submarine capability. In the first part I contrasted the political enthusiasm arising from the recent AUSMIN meetings in Washington, with the reality of output from the US shipyards. The reality […]