First AUKUS sub tipped to be ready by the early 2040s

Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles says the first of the nuclear submarines being built in Adelaide will be in service in the early 2040s.

The government has made two announcements today regarding the building and maintenance of AUKUS submarines at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia.

“It’s why when we announced the optimal pathway in March of last year that we had the purchase of the Virginia class submarines so that we could have an Australian-flagged nuclear-powered submarine a decade earlier in the early 2030s,” Mr Marles told Sky News Australia.

[oldnutta]

Only takes this long because they're trying to smelter materials with a magnifying glass.

[paulveenings]

20 years away, wow, so until then it’s rowboats ?

[lastChang]

The US 🇺🇸 said the AUKUS submarine project will deter any Chinese move against Taiwan 🇹🇼 and their illegal claims in the SCS.
- Australia 🇦🇺 is the main part of that deterrent.

[richardwright]

hear the Kiwis have some war canoes for sale, will deliver in 16 days

[OdinDogOfRoar]

After we have already been invaded 🤦‍♂️

[cheecharron]

The Doomsday Clock: "hold my beer"

[The-Anti-Woke]

TRUMP Needs to remove all LABOR From Australia and get on with AUKUS

[andrewwhite]

6 years to build the first sub in the US?
If they were built in China we would have six nuclear powered subs over the same period.
Why bother with the US when build quality is second rate and everything military item is overpriced.

[KIA-MIA-POW]

Delivery would have been a lot sooner had the principal contractor been BAE Systems. The contractual cost would have been fixed and firm, and guaranteed, unlike US contractors.

[PurpleWatchtower]

None of us will be alive around that time 😑🤦‍♂️

[scotty]

16+ years for the first of "our subs" and 10+ years for any sub. Great effort from Both sides of the We are told we need the subs to counter China. Yeah so we are going to counter them in 10-20 years then, whilst our aging subs are having some big issues and we can only field 1 sub at present.. Not looking great.

[FintanK]

Kevin, Kevin, Kevin.

Kevin is always a problem.

[speedymccreedy]

A very favourable timeline in the report, when we all know net zero refers to Albo having net zero new subs until 2050, when the guy will be in the grave. Hopefully the opposition will do the right thing and just have 9 new Astute class subs built, they wont be built locally, but we will have them 20 years earlier than AUKUS.

[creditelectric]

A tad over 15 years to build an American submarine displaying an Australian Flag on it or as Mr Dryden stated in Laurence of Arabia, "It seems we're to have a British waterworks with an Arab flag on it. Do you think it was worth it?"

[AhmetTekin]

It's only 5 years from now that Australia 🇦🇺 will possess *state of the art nuclear submarines* that China and Russia can't match.

[richardtravers]

If you believe any nuclear subs will be built here, I have a coat hanger bridge for sale. The first 3 boats are old used Virginia Class subs that probably have a maximum of 10 years life.

[johngodden]

Old news - previously announced several times from a no action government determined to not spend money on defence.
The only way we have any hope of funding what needs to be spent is to redirect all funding for the zero carbon target ( windmills and solar panel infrastructure) to defence. There is no funding currently and no plan to address the immediate need for deterrent capability. In the absence of submarines we should buy a squadron of B21 stealth bombers - otherwise we have zero capability foreseeable for 15 years.

[dandyfarm]

More smoke & mirrors, what an absolute waist of time. Meanwhile we cry every time the Chinese splash saltwater in our faces and we come running back home to mummy. Let's face it, we have been left behind and there is nothing we can do to catch up with serious adversaries.

[Jamesn-jszp]

All Australians will be speaking Chinese long before we have our first sub

[garrysecuramot]

Since when does a small, non industrial nation like Australia need nuclear projection. If we need a long range nuclear deterrent, wouldn't 4 subs be enough to give us forward projection, but our main requirement is protection of our vast coastline, and three times the equivalent cost conventional subs, like the enhanced Japanese ones Tony Abbott proposed would be a much better proposition, and could be attained much quicker with less port requirements.