Eighteen months after signing the AUKUS pact, Australia has announced its biggest military spending since World War II. How will it work?
make $3 billion in cuts
Short term – over the next four years – the price tag is $9 billion, including $3 billion to underwrite construction of extra Virginia-class submarines in the US , $2 billion for infrastructure in Adelaide and $1 billion for an expanded naval base in Perth to house US and UK ships. Defence expert Peter Dean, one of the authors of the Australian Defence Force’s highly anticipated strategic review, supports the plan even as. For one thing, the very structure of the arrangement could mean Australia is operating three different kinds of submarines at one point. That would likely “prove enormously expensive and difficult in terms of maintenance, sustainment, training, and operations”.
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